Flash Raspberry Pi OS onto NVMe SSD from a Micro SD card
April 9, 2024, 22:07
I am looking for a way to format/flash my SSD for my rpi 5. I don't have a usb/ssd cord to plug into my computer, and I am hoping to be able to do something like run raspberry pi imager as a cli tool and format the ssd while it's plugged into my rpi 5.
Has anyone done this? What did you use/how did you go about it? I don't have any micro hdmi's either, so I am looking for a headless way to do this.
for when this uploads to website
If you don't have an SSD to USB adapter for the PC, how is the SSD connected to the Pi 5?
ssd is on a peripheral board, the peripheral board is attached to the pi 5 via fpc cable
i think this might be the issue and that i have to format it first
If you use the imaging technic that <@1071178789939331253> described above there is no need for formatting!
When formatting a filesystem is created, when imaging a filesystem with content is created.
Gotcha. I guess the issue I’m running into is, my rpi 5 is not detecting my ssd. It seems to detect the pci and I think the peripheral board? But haven’t been able to find anything that indicates the ssd is working
No logs say the nvme ssd was mounted, can’t find any new drives other than the current micro sd card
And I am pretty sure I turned on the flags in the /boot/firmware/config.txt and did the other boot thing + restarted my pi
Tried a few combinations in case the boot settings were the issue
But still no luck in being able to use the ssd yet
yes i attempted to cover everything
run sudo apt update; sudo apt updgrade; sudo reboot then when it reboots run lsblk
no luck after i did this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk0 179:0 0 28.8G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 28.3G 0 part /
the ssd is supposed to be 256 gb
Are you booting from a SSD?
no
i would like to
but booting from micro sd rn
Or have another one plugged in?
The SD card should be at the top then
ssd plugged in via peripheral board with fpc cable/pcie port
Run sudo raspi-config
Then it should be advanced
And expand filesystem
that says only for sd card though?
Should be fine
still no change:
garp@raspberrypi:~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 806M 5.1M 801M 1% /run /dev/mmcblk0p2 28G 2.3G 25G 9% / tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 48K 5.0M 1% /run/lock /dev/mmcblk0p1 510M 63M 448M 13% /boot/firmware tmpfs 806M 0 806M 0% /run/user/1000
garp@raspberrypi:~ $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS mmcblk0 179:0 0 28.8G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware └─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 28.3G 0 part /
even after rebooting
Is that the complete output of lsblk?
ya
Wait two SSDs??
no, that is all the micro sd card
Weird naming
it is booting from the micro sd
i dont have any sort of booting on the ssd drive
Do these two anyway, it may still work
First one mainly
And mkfs