Re: Pi 5 and NVMe SSD

On 22/05/2024 15:02, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:

In this case it looks like it (the bootloader) cant find the FAT
partition.

 Agreed.
 

Now that could be that it is making some unwarranted assumptions about
where on the disk that actually is.
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And the disk has it either elsewhere, or mapped internally to elsewhere.
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I note that it is trying partition 0..
is that actually where the FAT volume resides?

 It is, yes. It’s the same layout as the SD card.
 The diagnostics (‘cluster 0 etc’) suggest that whatever it thinks it’s
reading, it’s not getting the data that’s actually on the SSD.
 

Yeah. I assumed you had done all the obvious stuff.
No problems with wimpy power supplies? apparently pi's and ssds take a lot of current at boot time
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