Beginners • Re: Trying to get RPi4 to boot from USB Nvme M.2 SSD, Lot's of questions.

As stated in the title, I'm trying to get my RPi4 to boot from USB with a Nvme M.2 SSD connected.

I started by flashing the sd card with latest 64bit bookworm. .

One video instruction I watched said "it's best to run apt updated and apt full upgrades to make sure the pi software is up to date ?

Does this require an internet connection or are these updates and full upgrades hidden in the latest bookworm os ?

Some of the up grade and up date commands did work or were suspect.

Then I copied the SD card to the SSD

Another problem: I"m having problems getting the Pi to connect by data cable to the internet also.

Anyone have a fool proof step by step process to make this work ?

Is it possible ?

will be back in a few days.

CM

Issuing the commands "sudo apt update" followed by "sudo apt full-upgrade" will use the Internet to download and install all the latest updates for Bookworm. So, you must have Internet access for the Pi by either ethernet cable or wireless WiFi.

The best way prepare a SSD for booting is to use the Raspberry Pi Imager to directly write/flash the Pi software directly to the SSD. Just like when you wrote the Pi software to the SDCard but instead direct the output to the SSD.

Be sure to establish a username and password by by selecting NEXT and responding EDIT SETTINGS to the Use OS customization? question. Do these things:

• Set a hostname
• Set a Username - you might want to consider the username pi
• Set a Password for the Username
• Configure the wireless LAN SSID and password if appropriate
• Set the locale settings if appropriate
• Click SAVE
• Click YES

After building the SSD and booting the Pi from the SSD, logon with the Username and Password, and then run the "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt full-upgrade" commands.

Butch

Statistics: Posted by butchkemper — Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:45 am

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