SSD only usage

[pieai]

Hi, I am Patrick and the M1 is my first Odroid SBC.

I wanted to use SSD only and remove SD after installation. But I could not find an install-to-ssd.sh So I created an boot and root partition on the ssd and copied /boot to new boot partition and the rest to the new ssd (like they did at https://gist.github.com/crazyquark/ae40 ... cbdc8fe0b3):

rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} / /mnt/ssd

I changed the UUIds in fstab, changing the ids in /boot was not successful as I did not find a boot.ini.

Booting starts but hangs without the SD card. What am I missing? Would it be possible?

Have a great day and thanks in advance!
Patrick

[tobetter]

You do not need such a script or SD card to install an OS to your SSD, at the same time so sorry that we do not have instruction in Wiki yet.

What you have to do is:
1. Connect your SSD to the SATA port and connect its power cable.
2. Connect a micro USB 2.0 cable to the port under USB 3.0 host port at ODROID-M1 to your PC.
3. Power up your ODROID-M1 while your USB keyboard and display are connected, so you will have Petitboot on your display.
4. Select "Exit to shell" on the screen (Petitboot)
5. Run ums /dev/sda, probably it must be /dev/sda if you have connected only one SSD. Then this will appear as USB storage on your PC.
6. On your PC, run balenaEtcher and select the OS image you have downloaded (Ubuntu or Android).
7. Select the USB storage for your SSD on ODROID-M1 and flash the image to it.
8. Once the flashing is done, remove it from the PC and restart your ODROID-M1.
9. Done.

Here is the link to what works for ODROID-N2/N2Plus, the instruction is almost the same.
https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started ... tg?s[]=otg

[mctom]

Did you mean ums /dev/sda?

I tried to do it on /dev/nvme0 but it didn't work. I wonder if nvme0d1 would work, didn't try that.

[tobetter]

Did you mean ums /dev/sda?

Good eyes...thank you, it's fixed.

I tried to do it on /dev/nvme0 but it didn't work. I wonder if nvme0d1 would work, didn't try that.

You must use /dev/nvme0n1, not nvme0d1....my eye is also good.
It works, I used to flash it when testing a new image.

You also can use nvme0n1p1 or nvme0n1p2 if you like to change the partition.

[mctom]

I wanted to use the whole new drive (taken from a new laptop, so it had Windows on it probably). I couldn't figure that out, so I booted Ubuntu from USB drive and dd'ed system image on nvme from there.

I wasn't aware /dev/nvme0 is not a drive just like /dev/sda is, only after i lauched lsblk in Ubuntu. It's a learning process for me.

But if you already tested that I'm not going to repeat it now. Not unless I'll have to switch to minimal/server to play with MATE.

[istanbulls]

You do not need such a script or SD card to install an OS to your SSD, at the same time so sorry that we do not have instruction in Wiki yet.

What you have to do is:
1. Connect your SSD to the SATA port and connect its power cable.
2. Connect a micro USB 2.0 cable to the port under USB 3.0 host port at ODROID-M1 to your PC.
3. Power up your ODROID-M1 while your USB keyboard and display are connected, so you will have Petitboot on your display.
4. Select "Exit to shell" on the screen (Petitboot)
5. Run ums /dev/sda, probably it must be /dev/sda if you have connected only one SSD. Then this will appear as USB storage on your PC.
6. On your PC, run balenaEtcher and select the OS image you have downloaded (Ubuntu or Android).
7. Select the USB storage for your SSD on ODROID-M1 and flash the image to it.
8. Once the flashing is done, remove it from the PC and restart your ODROID-M1.
9. Done.

Here is the link to what works for ODROID-N2/N2Plus, the instruction is almost the same.
https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started ... tg?s[]=otg

my Odroid-M1 is still grappling with customs and I guess it will take a few more days.
netboot-installer not working? if not when will it be active or netboot-installer?

[tobetter]

You do not need such a script or SD card to install an OS to your SSD, at the same time so sorry that we do not have instruction in Wiki yet.

What you have to do is:
1. Connect your SSD to the SATA port and connect its power cable.
2. Connect a micro USB 2.0 cable to the port under USB 3.0 host port at ODROID-M1 to your PC.
3. Power up your ODROID-M1 while your USB keyboard and display are connected, so you will have Petitboot on your display.
4. Select "Exit to shell" on the screen (Petitboot)
5. Run ums /dev/sda, probably it must be /dev/sda if you have connected only one SSD. Then this will appear as USB storage on your PC.
6. On your PC, run balenaEtcher and select the OS image you have downloaded (Ubuntu or Android).
7. Select the USB storage for your SSD on ODROID-M1 and flash the image to it.
8. Once the flashing is done, remove it from the PC and restart your ODROID-M1.
9. Done.

Here is the link to what works for ODROID-N2/N2Plus, the instruction is almost the same.
https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started ... tg?s[]=otg

my Odroid-M1 is still grappling with customs and I guess it will take a few more days.
netboot-installer not working? if not when will it be active or netboot-installer?

Netboot Installer is not ready and I would build/test it this weekend but not sure it will work. Since the installer for ODROID-M1 becomes a bit different than ODROID-N2/C4/HC4 which is my fault. Wish it happens sometime soon by early next week. :crossfinger:

[istanbulls]

You do not need such a script or SD card to install an OS to your SSD, at the same time so sorry that we do not have instruction in Wiki yet.

What you have to do is:
1. Connect your SSD to the SATA port and connect its power cable.
2. Connect a micro USB 2.0 cable to the port under USB 3.0 host port at ODROID-M1 to your PC.
3. Power up your ODROID-M1 while your USB keyboard and display are connected, so you will have Petitboot on your display.
4. Select "Exit to shell" on the screen (Petitboot)
5. Run ums /dev/sda, probably it must be /dev/sda if you have connected only one SSD. Then this will appear as USB storage on your PC.
6. On your PC, run balenaEtcher and select the OS image you have downloaded (Ubuntu or Android).
7. Select the USB storage for your SSD on ODROID-M1 and flash the image to it.
8. Once the flashing is done, remove it from the PC and restart your ODROID-M1.
9. Done.

Here is the link to what works for ODROID-N2/N2Plus, the instruction is almost the same.
https://wiki.odroid.com/getting_started ... tg?s[]=otg

my Odroid-M1 is still grappling with customs and I guess it will take a few more days.
netboot-installer not working? if not when will it be active or netboot-installer?

Netboot Installer is not ready and I would build/test it this weekend but not sure it will work. Since the installer for ODROID-M1 becomes a bit different than ODROID-N2/C4/HC4 which is my fault. Wish it happens sometime soon by early next week. :crossfinger:

then our prayers are with you. I think netboot-installer takes odroids to another dimension with petitboot. bless your hands.

[pieai]

OK, that worked

I am using an NVME SSD so I only connected the SSD and the OTG cable. Started Petitboot and exited it to run:

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ums /dev/nvme0n1

and flashed very fast and unproblematic. Redetecting the discs and it worked.

Funny warning of etcher



Thank you very much!

[tobetter]

OK, that worked

I am using an NVME SSD so I only connected the SSD and the OTG cable. Started Petitboot and exited it to run:

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ums /dev/nvme0n1

and flashed very fast and unproblematic. Redetecting the discs and it worked.

Funny warning of etcher



Thank you very much!

Cool, glad to hear it works flawlessly. Congratulations!!
I also have the same warning whenever I flash the image. LoL

[pieai]

As I could not figure out, why the openssh-server was not running I simply reinstalled it:

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apt reinstall openssh-server

And changing password before made me very happy!

[tobetter]

As I could not figure out, why the openssh-server was not running I simply reinstalled it:

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apt reinstall openssh-server

And changing password before made me very happy!

Good question, this problem is not really solved yet since it works 80% on my end. When the OS image boots, it has a script a.k.a "firstboot" which extend the file system to use your storage and it also recreate a ssh keys once at the first boot to have different keys over all OS installation. Probably the ssh server holds the prior keys with image beside later actual key is changed by first boot.

[mctom]

Oh yes, that reminds me I had to enable sshd service, otherwise it didn't work.

[zupet]

I used this method.

1. copy linux image file, ubuntu-20.04-server-odroidm1-20220318.img, to empty sdcard. just copy file.
2. insert ssd and sdcard and power M1.
3. enter petitboot console mode.
4. go to /usr/var/petitboot/mnt/dev/mmcblk1p1 and check copied image file.
5. dd if=ubuntu-20.04-server-odroidm1-20220318.img of=/dev/nvme0n1
6. sync
7. reboot or exit console. petitboot will show nvme's boot partition.

petitboot recognize msdos, gpt partition table and ext4, fat32 partitions.
I didn't tested usb memory, but it will work.

[sawas]

Is it possible to use this instruction for hc4?

[tobetter]

Is it possible to use this instruction for hc4?

These two instructions work on HC4.
viewtopic.php?p=346557#p346557
viewtopic.php?p=346807#p346807

[sawas]

Thank you, tobetter!