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USB Flash drives provide a cheap and reliable alternative. SD Cards have a limited read/write cycle, and when hosting a site with a MySQL database from a SD card, it won't take long before you start getting corruptions and failures. If you run Raspbian from a USB Flash drive, you will enjoy performance boosts, speed and reliability improvements just to name a few benefits. In this tutorial, I'm going to talk you through running Raspbian from a USB connected drive instead of from an SD card.
Boot off sd card install#
You must also remove any other root= information from your kernel command line string.Important information This tutorial is out-dated and has been updated here: Install Raspbian from USB Flash drive Root is the name of your MMC/SD Partition, and rootwait tells the board to wait for the SD card to enumerate before mounting the RFS since it takes some time for the SD card to mount. If you simply want to mount the SD card as the RFS, add the following parameters to the kernel command line when booting the board: If using a device tree, use the following: Setenv bootargs console=$console root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait
Boot off sd card manual#
Partitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additional
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WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.x
Boot off sd card code#
The code for FAT16 is 6.Ĭhanged system type of partition 1 to 6 (FAT16)
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The first partition is a FAT16 partition which will contain the kernel and device tree blob (if applicable). The following steps will create two partitions on a single SD card. If your board is listed below, you should use that guide instead of this.