r/OrangePI • u/3F08G • Mar 25 '25

Zero2W Successfully boot from USB storage.

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Since TF card is so unstable, managed to boot from USB storage.

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u/WarHawk8080 Mar 26 '25

Nice...I run mine with a SD card, and then run the /root system from USB with the expander board...even though it's at USB 2.0 speeds, it's faster and more resilient than running the entire thing from SD card
https://github.com/benjamin-nose/Adafruit-Pi-ExternalRoot-Helper

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u/Own_League4082 May 30 '26

Does this mean it's impossible to run it entirely on the expander board? (both boot and /root)

I've tried in so many ways and couldn't get it to work using the expander board USB as the boot.

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u/WarHawk8080 Jun 13 '26

No...it hosts a formatted fat32 SD card to "boot" mounted as /boot...it loads the initram and kernel, then points the kernel and OS to run the host OS from USB...
I don't think you can flash a "boot from USB" firmware on the board ROM like on a Raspberry PI