Running LibreElec on RPI3 model B from M.2 SSD enclosure

Smultie · March 8, 2021 at 11:56 AM

Hi,

I used to run from USB stick with the SD-card trick (special bootcode.bin), which allowed only the SD-card to be used during the initial bootup, thereafter switching to my USB disk.

To improve the speed of the operation, I decided to try to use an M.2 SSD I had lying around. I use the SSD in an enclosure.

I installed LibreElec on my M.2 SSD as I did on my USB drive, expecting the same result.

Unfortunately I get an error when booting:

**Klojum** · March 8, 2021 at 5:41 PM Official Post

The RPi-3B+ also supports USB booting. So you may want to look at that option.

**lrusak** · March 8, 2021 at 6:13 PM Official Post

The boot problem is that the boot partition for LibreELEC isn't found. This could be because the device isn't recognized or that the uuid changed from the original install, you can verify by comparing the uuid from blkid of the device you want to boot to the uuid listed in cmdline.txt