Hi guys,

 

I'm a bit lost with this one. I want to setup a way of basically reinstalling a NanoPi Neo over the network.

 

My thought process is:

1. Boot from NFS.

2. In the boot process have a script that runs the nand-sata-install.sh (or modified version of).

3. Reboot with new OS from USB.

 

Now, I'm sure I can get this working, the bit that I am having trouble working out is how the bootloader will know if we should be loading from NFS or USB.

 

Can UBoot grab this from the network? Ideally this will also be done without SSH access.

 

I know this is a complicated problem but any guidance in the right direction will be really appreciated.

 

Thanks!

I want to setup a way of basically reinstalling a NanoPi Neo over the network.

 

Then get in touch with FriendlyARM now and convince them to put a small SPI NOR flash on the next board revision: http://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SPI_flash (and they should also fix U7 issue!)

 

Please also be aware that currently u-boot for H3 does not even support Ethernet. In other words: no way. All you can come up with now is something that runs from SD card that has also to load the kernel from local storage.