From: nospam.Dennis.Slagers@f2060.n280.z2.fidonet.org   
      
   Hello Chris!   
      
   23 Jan 25 22:12, you wrote to all:   
      
   Maybe this is useful   
      
   https://aroundmyroom.com/2018/07/28/update-boot-from-usb-with-hp-microserver-   
   gen8-and-openmediavault/   
      
   and gives you hints   
      
   I own some HP Gen8 Microservers where you cannot boot (depends on how you want   
   to use the HDD's) from the ODD port, but you can use it to have a disk   
   connected to it for further use   
      
   So the trick is to boot from your SD and than tell Grub that it has to use that   
   device for the rest   
   so the USB disk (in my instance) was only getting start and than go further to   
   the SATA   
      
   But it should not matter if that is SD or USB whatever..   
      
   If you start chatgpt.com  ..   
   and ask a question like   
      
   how to start from an SD card (initial boot) on a raspberry pi and than the rest   
   through grub starting to the USB ?   
      
   you get also an answer you might be able to use   
      
      
    CG> I'm sure this is basically easy but I can't find a simple description   
    CG> of how to do it.  If you search for anything about 'boot' and 'USB'   
    CG> you are immediately flooded with descriptions of how to boot from USB   
    CG> and that's not what I want.   
      
    CG> I have an ancient Pi B+ that does all I need where it is but I'd like   
    CG> to be less reliant on the SD card.  You can't (easily) boot such an   
    CG> old Pi from USB and I don't really need to, I just want to make it so   
    CG> that once booted all activity is on a USB drive.   
      
    CG> Is it simply a matter of leaving /boot on the SD card and changing /   
    CG> to being a USB drive or does one need to edit something in /boot   
    CG> somewhere?   
      
      
   Dennis   
      
      
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