[MinnowBoard] run continuously from microSD?

[jezra]

Perhaps I am missing something. What is prohibiting you from meeting
your goals? 

I have a MBM (not the turbot), that boots from the microSD and runs my
custom applications at boot. For the OS, I am using Debian which can be
installed to the microSD without issue. From there is is a matter of
creating a systemd .service file to control starting the custom
application at boot. 

minnow at cronos:~$ uptime
 14:44:45 up 131 days,  5:17,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05

It has been 131 days since my last power outage. :)


On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 21:32:34 +0000 (UTC)
Jim Elliott <james_m_elliott at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have an application that will run continuously, interrupted only by
> a power failure from the electric utility.  I would be interested in
> suggestions on how to meet these goals:* OS and my executable
> resident on the microSD* both USB ports on the Minnowboard (Turbot)
> are taken, they cannot hold a USB flash drive containing my
> executable.* at power up the OS and my application start without
> manual intervention.* no writes to the microSD after initialization -
> my application does not perform any I/O to the storage device after
> initialization.* at powerup, initialization can be slow - no problem
> if it takes two minutes or so. Thanks for all ideas!Jim