Is possible to boot from SSD drive via eSATA?

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE AGX Xavier DRIVE AGX Xavier General
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Software Version
[*] DRIVE OS Linux 5.2.0
DRIVE OS Linux 5.2.0 and DriveWorks 3.5
NVIDIA DRIVE™ Software 10.0 (Linux)
NVIDIA DRIVE™ Software 9.0 (Linux)
other DRIVE OS version
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Target Operating System
[*] Linux
QNX
other

Hardware Platform
NVIDIA DRIVE™ AGX Xavier DevKit (E3550)
[*] NVIDIA DRIVE™ AGX Pegasus DevKit (E3550)
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SDK Manager Version
1.4.1.7402
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Host Machine Version
[*] native Ubuntu 18.04
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Hello, if I connect one SSD to XavierA via eSATA port, can I boot from this SSD? If so, could you point me to relative docs? Such as bootloader configuration, how to create partition and images?

Thank you!

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Dear @ranchen,
You want OS to be part of SSD and wants to boot from SSD disk instead of eMMC?
May I know why you need this? Is there any use case?

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Hi Siva, we want the OS to be part of SSD, there is not use case yet, just want to if this is an option. Thanks.

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Dear @ranchen,
I don’t think it is possible. Let me check internally and get back to you if any WAR can be provided.

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Dear @ranchen,
May I know if it is because you need more space? How about mounting other disks? Please see Usage of vblkdev1,2,3 if it is helpful.