<div dir="ltr">Patrick,<div>1. have the os you want to install on a thumb/flash drive in the usb port</div><div>2. have your sd card in the slot</div><div>3. plug the board in and press F2 to get to the UEFI screen. if you do not hit F2 fast enough you will see the interactive</div><div>shell screen. if you see this scree type exit and hit return. that should take you to the UEFI menu screen. if not you </div><div>can unplug the board and start again , remember to hit F2 quickly after power up. once at menu screen.</div><div>4. scroll down and select boot manager</div><div>5. hit enter and you will be at boot options screen.</div><div>6. scroll down and select EFI usb device.</div><div>7. hit enter.</div><div>8. at this point it should bring up the install screen of whatever os is on the thumb drive and install to the sd card.</div><div>9. after install process reboot, take out thumb drive, sd card should boot.</div><div><br></div><div>i'm pulling it from memory and think sd card is default install location . hope this helps get you started</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Patrick Mulder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mulder.patrick@gmail.com" target="_blank">mulder.patrick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">thanks, probably I could investigate a bit more how to load/configure the UEFI shell for different OS usage.<br><div>It is more a side project right now for me, to have some small workstations for embedded programming/network programming.</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, my current situation is that have multiple USB sticks and one USB flash drive. I think the SATA approach is nice, but compared with a big computer, there is no 12V power supply for the HDD (not sure, if it is 12V, but the connector from PC power supplies look like higher voltage)</div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, next time slot for debugging for me will probably be the weekend.</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Douglas Kryder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dkryder@gmail.com" target="_blank">dkryder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Patrick, <div>as far as hardware connections you can use the onboard sata connector or use a lure. in my case i bought a silverjaw lure.</div><div><a href="http://www.tincantools.com/MinowBoard_Max_Add-ons/Silverjaw_Lure.html" target="_blank">http://www.tincantools.com/Min<wbr>owBoard_Max_Add-ons/Silverjaw_<wbr>Lure.html</a><br></div><div>and i used a samsung 850 on the m2 / msata connector.</div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-2388627425981517902h5">On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Patrick Mulder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mulder.patrick@gmail.com" target="_blank">mulder.patrick@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-2388627425981517902h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I was playing a bit more with the Minnowboard last weekend. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot!</div><span class="m_-2388627425981517902m_1454518403817139293HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Patrick</div></font></span></div>
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