Possible to boot minicoral dev board using microsd card or usb-c drive?

I have had two occasions already where my board doesn't go green . It is half orange half green for some unknown reason. Another time I had a botched /etc/fstab file and had to start over with fastboot

It would help greatly if we could optionally boot from microsd sdcard instead of solely from internal 8gb storage

@saket424 thanks for checking in, I'll have to check with my team and get back with you on this. To address the original issue, though, would you still encounter the issue with different cable?

@Namburger ,

Once it gets into the orange+green state, it doesn't matter what cable I use, it stays in that state.

My goal is to get power and ethernet connectivity to the minicoral using this

https://www.amazon.com/UCTRONICS-Raspberry-Ethernet-Chromecast-Compliant/dp/B0876N3PMZ

@saket424 sorry, could you clarify? Once the board goes orange+green, you've tried switching to a different USB-C cable and it is still not booting? How did you finally get it to boot again?

@Namburger The only way to boot again is to force it into fastboot mode and start over

Had the same issue (stuck at orange+green) today after experimenting with a powered USB Hub. No clue whether related to that or not. Had to connect the force fastboot pin as well.

@kueblert I found that if I interrupted the boot at the right time(almost towards the end of the boot sequence) via the serial console, i was able to get it out of the orange/green state and did not have to resort to fastboot

I suspect it is something relating to fsck failing and re-mounting it as readonly or something

@saket424 sorry for the late response

did not have to resort to fastboot

do you mean to reflash the board again?

@Namburger I mean I did not need to reflash the board. By interrupting it at the right spot, i made the green&orange turn into all green I think the real issue is this happens due to an ungraceful shut down. that is my current working theory

Thanks @saket424 that will hopefully save some time in case it happens again. Connecting a display doesn't help either, as nothing is displayed at the stage where it fails.

Also, I need to unplug the cameras after each reboot so that they are recognized as cameras. I guess the board switches from device to host mode that way. Perhaps that interferes somehow?

I have also had the same issue at least twice. I must force-boot in order for the board to be operable again. This seems to happen out of nowhere. No connections other than USB-C to a Linux machine via MDT shell. Have others continued to see this? Has anyone found the root cause and fix? Thank you.

@joshfox10 I am also struggling this issue. Did you find a solution?

Thanks

@oriyaish I did not find a solution, but fortunately the issue hasn't happened since. Best of luck!