problems getting a banana pi to boot off a hard disk (long)

["George Morgan" <gmorgan%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

Dave!

I am so glad you posted this solution....I had figured I'd never get my poor old Banana Pi M1 to boot directly off sata and would require manual intervention every time I needed to reboot (I have this board hanging off a serial USB adapter just for this problem) but your notes below fixed it all up.

I really appreciate it!

Now let's see if I can avoid jacking up my upgrade to NetBSD 9.2...fire in the hole!

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Just a quick note that I eventually sorted this. I modified the supplied
boot.cmd on the sdcard to force it to select the hard disk:

 if test "${soc}" = "tegra210" ; then
        # enable PCIe
        pci enum
fi

scsi scan
scsi dev 0
setenv bootargs root=wd0
setenv boot_scripts
setenv boot_script_dhcp
run distro_bootcmd

and then generated a new boot.scr using:

mkubootimage -A arm -n armv7 -T script boot.cmd boot.scr

with that done the system boots from the hard disk and only uses the sdcard to 
pick the u-boot loader and dts files.

This stuff could do with documenting properly and the page at:

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/install_using_sysinst/

updating with the efi boot stuff.

Dave

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  George Morgan
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