Like many others, I seem to have difficulties with having my Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from SSD. There are several threads out there discussing the issue, but until now, I haven't been able to find any that works for me. I need help.
What works: booting from SD-card...
When I boot from SD-card, I'm able to see my SSD:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/firmware
└─sda2 8:2 0 931G 0 part /
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.7G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 512M 0 part
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 29.2G 0 part
Both SD-card and SSD are flashed from Raspberry Pi Imager v1.8.5: RASPBERRY PI 5 -> RASPBERRY PI OS LITE (64-BIT)
What I have done after booting with SD-card:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt update
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt full-upgrade
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo raspi-config #the current Version: 20240708
├──6 Advanced Options (Configure advanced settings)
└─ A4 Boot Order (Choose SD, network, USB or NVMe device boot priority)
└─ B2 NVMe/USB (Boot Boot from NVMe before trying USB and then SD Card)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo reboot
I removed the SD card. The only thing that happens now is that the green ligt flashes two times and goes solid green. Exactly as in @swerve-driven's post, Unable to boot from USB on raspberry pi 5 . I can see activity with my USB-drive (the SSD status light flashes a couple of times but turn to solid) initially, but it does not boot.
Some power related data on my system with the only USB SSD connected (for the sake of honesty, - No, I don't use the official power supply):
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd pmic_read_adc
3V7_WL_SW_A current(0)=0.00000000A
3V3_SYS_A current(1)=0.14443760A
1V8_SYS_A current(2)=0.19811380A
DDR_VDD2_A current(3)=0.00683151A
DDR_VDDQ_A current(4)=0.00000000A
1V1_SYS_A current(5)=0.23715100A
0V8_SW_A current(6)=0.32986440A
VDD_CORE_A current(7)=0.91085990A
3V3_DAC_A current(17)=0.00000000A
3V3_ADC_A current(18)=0.00000000A
0V8_AON_A current(16)=0.00537240A
HDMI_A current(22)=0.02796090A
3V7_WL_SW_V volt(8)=3.64781100V
3V3_SYS_V volt(9)=3.31003300V
1V8_SYS_V volt(10)=1.81684800V
DDR_VDD2_V volt(11)=1.10586000V
DDR_VDDQ_V volt(12)=0.60219720V
1V1_SYS_V volt(13)=1.10366200V
0V8_SW_V volt(14)=0.80073180V
VDD_CORE_V volt(15)=0.72151340V
3V3_DAC_V volt(20)=3.31318300V
3V3_ADC_V volt(21)=3.31043600V
0V8_AON_V volt(19)=0.79912020V
HDMI_V volt(23)=5.07860000V
EXT5V_V volt(24)=5.06922000V
BATT_V volt(25)=0.00000000V
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd get_throttled
throttled=0x0
Update 1: More output (blkid; /etc/fstab; /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt)
blkid
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ blkid
/dev/mmcblk0p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="bootfs" LABEL="bootfs" UUID="91FE-7499" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="a870914a-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="56f80fa2-e005-4cca-86e6-19da1069914d" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="a870914a-02"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="rootfs" UUID="56f80fa2-e005-4cca-86e6-19da1069914d" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="16a1d456-02"
/dev/sda1: LABEL_FATBOOT="bootfs" LABEL="bootfs" UUID="91FE-7499" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="16a1d456-01"
/etc/fstab
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls -l /etc/fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 314 Jul 4 02:14 /etc/fstab
/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=16a1d456-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=SE
Update 2: Content of /etc/fstab
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/fstab
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=a870914a-01 /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=a870914a-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
I don't get what the problem is here? What am I expected to do to boot my Raspberry Pi 5 from my USB SSD without the need of any SD-card?
rootandfirmwareat this point - what is the output ofblkid, the content of/etc/fstaband/boot/firmware/cmdline.txtwhen you boot/etc/fstab... anyway - from the info you managed to post, looks like you HAVE booted from the SSD