A7S booting from USB nvme

Cubie Series A7S
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Hey hey anyone know how to boot from an USB nvme drive?

Do we have any other way to use anything besides the micro SD to use this board?

I am new to it and didn’t know about the missing emmc slot, I thought we had some kind of emmc slot to plug it there, but look like if I want to use anything besides the micro SD I really don’t have any other option.

Thanks

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The slot is not missing, it’s just a place where an eMMC module can be soldered. They never said it has a slot…

And yes, you can try armbian (this fork for now Releases · NickAlilovic/build · GitHub ), copy the rootfs to nvme, point armbian to it (change the UUID!) and use the SD card only as the /boot partition.

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Thanks man, I did that with the openclaw image from radxa and is working.

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So does that mean that those images work for the A7S then … ?

If so which one, as there is one for the A7A and A7Z, but nothing for A7S.

Tia

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There is a universal image for all A733 boards

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Here is where I got the openclaw image

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Thanks for that.

@teamradxa: what’s the eta for the heatsink someone mentioned?

Probably too late but would be good if it accommodated the fpc with an m2 connector somehow. Think ppl would pay for that

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Someone is selling it on Taobao in China, but I’m not sure if it’s being made elsewhere.