Okay will be checking SATA configuration tomorrow hopefully.
You guessed it RJ45 problem But I had to write a new SD Card to get it to work. Once the image is upset it will not reconfigure by itself. ifconfig was showing the connection was up but ping was not seeing the router !
Okay I will look into this tomorrow.
Done an apt-get update and Chrome still okay !
And apache2 installed and running !
@baskwo - Depending on what you are doing you would probably want SATA drive working first in order to run docker.
@jackzeng I still have not checkout running and booting from SATA as I got distracted by other tasks unfortunately, but WILL do ASAP.
But I have just got your Jessie distro upgraded to Stretch !
@sinovoip - will the existing eMMC boot from vfat on SATA as it is or would that require updating eMMC ? If not would it be possible to add it as a default to boot from say SDCard and if not then from SATA vfat ?
@Jackzeng - I did get builds of bpi-build and armbian Stretch built under docker on my i7 machine. I still cannot find a build for Raspbian though if you have a link I would well appreciate it.
If you want we can work closely together I can follow up what you have done reproducing it and doing docker builds and accompanying documentation on how to do the builds.
Also another issue on the M3 is the PowerVR GPU support. At the moment it does not seem to use GPU. The tell tail window drags and shake gives it away.
I though I found source code some time ago for the PowerVR SGX544MP1 but it does seem to be propitiatory though ?
@sinovoip - I think one of your Ubuntu builds had PowerVR support as the window drag and shake test showed it had support.
@Jackzeng - Ah your not building Raspbian from source then. I tried to find out how to do this but there does not seem to be any repo or instructions anywhere on the web.
I am going to probably go down the Armbian route then in the medium term. I need something working to act as a Node.js web server in the shorter term though so will stick with working with you on this.
I will put up the instructions and hopefully an image as well for the Stretch upgrade tomorrow.
And hopefully you should now have a functioning Raspbian running on the SSD but still booting from the µSD Card.
In order to boot from SSD the eMMC uEnv.txt needs modifying … Ideally we modify it to check the µSD Card first then if thats not inserted or bootable with a VFAT partition it should boot from the SSD’s VFAT sda1 partition.
@sinovoip - if you could chip in on this I would be grateful as I have not fully got my head around uBoot uEnv.txt scripts as I have not been able to find any documentation for it and the source code is next to impenetrable.
@Jackzeng - when this procedure is tested we can add it to the wiki
I will write up the Stretch upgrade tomorrow as I want to do it again to verify my written instructions from last time are correct. There are a few points where you have to make decisions in the main upgrade step regarding file update decisions that I want to verify.
But I had to write a new SD Card to get it to work. Once the image is upset it will not reconfigure by itself. ifconfig was showing the connection was up but ping was not seeing the router !