Boot EWAOL via SSD Boot#

Overview#

You need to use SSD enclosure case to flash yocto image to M.2 SSD directly.

Get yocto image#

Build yocto image with EWAOL by following the instructions Getting started with EWAOL, or Download the image from the website to your host machine;
- AVA Developer Platform Downloads – I-Pi SMARC ( Yocto with SOAFEE is preferred.)

Flash yocto image#

Remove M.2 SSD from AVA platform and flash yocto image to it directly.

Remove M.2 SSD from AVA platform.
Install M.2 SSD into a M.2 enclosure case.
Plug it into your host machine.

Then, show available block devices.

lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
...
sdn           8:208  0 119.2G  0 disk
├─sdn1        8:209  0   512M  0 part
├─sdn2        8:210  0     1G  0 part /media/foo/7d00c690-db24-462d-8c8d-dce7bdf151d8
└─sdn3        8:211  0 117.8G  0 part

Flush yocto image to M.2 SSD.

For example

sudo dd if=ewaol-image-docker-comhpc-20211022083723.rootfs.wic of=/dev/sdn bs=1M status=progress && sync

Extend rootfs partition#

You have to extend rootfs partition. Follow the instructions Extend rootfs partition

Reinstall SSD#

Remove M.2 SSD from enclosure case and install it into AVA platform, then turn it on.
The following screen comes up, then login as root without password.
```
EWAOL (Edge Workload Abstraction and Orchestration Layer) 0.1 comhpc tty1
comhpc login:
```
You are able to access via SSH.