Is it possible to boot Orange pi Zero directly from hdd. I have sata hdd attached to OPI Zero via PI NAS. I can boot from usb flash and use HDD as root device but faild to boot from HDD directly. Is it possible to do this or not.

I've found this: https://github.com/lentinj/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.sata . Look's like it's possible. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.

16 hours ago, Vladimir Petrovic said:

Is it possible to boot Orange pi Zero directly from hdd.

In theory - yes. It should be enough to simply write an Armbian image directly to the HDD.

On practice it is impossible to diagnose booting issues in any other possible scenario without a UART console.

 

1 hour ago, Vladimir Petrovic said:

I've found this: https://github.com/lentinj/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.sata .

This is for native SATA, OPi Zero has only USB SATA via the NAS expansion board or any other USB-SATA adapter.

So it's usb sata... I think I know what I missed in instalation. I've dd if=soruce of=/dev/sdxx but I've did not set boot flag on partiton so that's why it does not boot from the hdd. I'll check today if I can boot it bringing boot flag to hdd. I  have UART deug console attached to RPI0  . Tnx. 

look's like u-boot does not recognise usb2sata controler on NAS expansion board for opi0. Any idea how to correct this? Is it even possible?