[MinnowBoard] sata drive howto and boot

[Ottaway, Brian R]

I agree with Doug on using silverjaw. It is extra money, but it yields a tight little package with the mSATA SSD.

@Mark Van Der Pol has a powered SATA drive running for large capacity. He may wish to comment further.

From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Kryder
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2017 1:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] sata drive howto and boot

Patrick,
as far as hardware connections you can use the onboard sata connector or use a lure. in my case i bought a silverjaw lure.
http://www.tincantools.com/MinowBoard_Max_Add-ons/Silverjaw_Lure.html
and i used a samsung 850 on the m2 / msata connector.
as far as the steps to setup the flashdrive with bsd i'm gonna have to step through the process again myself since it has been over a year since the last time i did it and do not off the top of my head remember all the steps however i'll update tomorrow afternoon after i've gone through the process again.

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Patrick Mulder <mulder.patrick at gmail.com<mailto:mulder.patrick at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I was playing a bit more with the Minnowboard last weekend.

a) I tried a FreeBSD install onto a USB Flashdrive but the boot did not work yet, maybe I miss something. I was basically stuck in the UEFI shell, only now seeing the fs0: command to try booting from the new drive.

b) Instead of working with a USB flash drive, the SATA drive option sounds interesting. Yet, I can't quickly see what cables I need, esp. for powering the SATA drive. Anyone has pointers here?

Thanks a lot!

Patrick

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