sd card to ssd disk clone

dippes · June 5, 2021 at 3:08 PM

Hello

what is the best way to clone my sd card to a usb ssd.

I have already tried with many means I do not want to succeed.the Raspi 4 b does not want to boot from the SSD.

When I plug sd card into a USB adapter the Raspi boots fine from USB.

**Klojum** · June 5, 2021 at 3:36 PM Official Post

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the Raspi 4 b does not want to boot from the SSD.

Did you already upgrade the RPi4's firmwares for booting and USB3.0 controller?

You can also directly install the LibreELEC diskimage onto the SSD, and then copy over all userdata and config folders. That way, resizing the partitions will not be a problem during a clone.

dippes · June 6, 2021 at 9:59 AM

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Did you already upgrade the RPi4's firmwares for booting and USB3.0 controller?

Yes everything up to date.

It is booted from USB stick.

What does not work is booting from a Samsung Portable SSD.

ghtester · June 6, 2021 at 12:49 PM

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Yes everything up to date.

No it is NOT - at least your bootloader is a bit outdated, the latest stable release is dated 2021-04-29 and beta 2021-05-19 (rpi-eeprom/release-notes.md at master · raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom · GitHub).

It looks your portable SSD is not detected, it could be due to incompatibility with RPi's bootloader or due to insufficient power.

Please note that RPi 4B has a quite low power limit on USB ports (even though you have a good power supply) so an external power for attached external disks is a good option.

Also try connecting the SSD to USB 2 ports.

dippes · June 6, 2021 at 2:27 PM

The Raspi 4 also does not want to boot from a USB 3 stick.

USB 2 sticks all work for me.

On Kodi at updates, however, only the version from 03.09.2020 is offered.

How do I get the latest version installed?

ghtester · June 6, 2021 at 2:38 PM

Kodi does not search for latest available RPi's firmware releases so it depends on LE build you have installed. If you use a stable but old LE release (9.2.6), also the RPi bootloader offered is obsolete.

See for instance here:

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RE: Boot from SSD instructions

Nothing special should be necessary if your RPi 4B does not have a very obsolete bootloader.

Just write a LE image to your external SSD, connect it to RPi 4B and try to boot.

if it won't work, try the same with SD card ( this should definitely work ), then check the VL805 USB firmware & RPi bootloader versions and upgrade them to latest available (check the release notes here).

How to check the CURRENT versions: rpi-eeprom-update

VL805 release should be: 00138a1

BOOTLOADER should be: Thu Apr 29…

ghtester

April 3, 2021 at 3:20 PM

dippes · June 6, 2021 at 3:42 PM

I have renewed the bootloader and USB firmware according to your instructions.

But the bootloader is still from 2020

What am I doing wrong?

Code

Raspi-Schlafzimmer:~ # vcgencmd bootloader_version
Sep  3 2020 13:11:43
version c305221a6d7e532693cc7ff57fddfc8649def167 (release)
timestamp 1599135103

ghtester · June 6, 2021 at 3:48 PM

Did you reboot RPi afterwards?

dippes · June 6, 2021 at 4:13 PM

yes,

Booting does the Raspi now with the ssd, but it always hangs in the same place.

ghtester · June 6, 2021 at 4:18 PM

Try to install the latest LE 10 nightly: LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0-nightly-20210604-f6b7711.img.gz

**Klojum** · June 6, 2021 at 4:48 PM Official Post

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What am I doing wrong?

With the newest LE beta builds .3 and .4 you can update your RPi4 firmwares, previous LE versions may fail. I suggest you do that first.

Writing the images I use Rufus for Window, they seem to give the least amount of troubles.

dippes · June 6, 2021 at 8:07 PM

Booted with "LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0-nightly-20210604-f6b7711.img.gz" and a USB2 stick and installed the latest firmware.Worked very well.

After that I copied the same build to my SSD with RUFUS.

The first time I got as far as the colorful screen.

After the next boot the system complained that the firmware is missing.

Then it did not boot at all.

From my SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 16GB the Raspi does not want to know anything.the is not found at all.

What else can I try?

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ghtester · June 6, 2021 at 8:37 PM

Use another external drive, properly powered.

dippes · June 7, 2021 at 2:31 PM

Bought a new USB 3 stick today.Libreelec on it and works.

Tomorrow I get a "SSD M.2 2280 256GB GamerKing Ngff internal Solid State Drive 250 GIG" for my Argon One M.2 case.

Let's see if this works without problems.

dippes · June 9, 2021 at 1:33 PM

Is it possible to set the Raspi to boot from USB at startup and not to search for the sd card first?

**Klojum** · June 9, 2021 at 3:24 PM Official Post

I think that delay is only a few seconds. Not searching for the SD card would a setting in the firmware, not something LibreELEC could force, I imagine. Anyway, how often are you planning to reboot your RPi?

dippes · June 9, 2021 at 3:55 PM

This is just my media center in the bedroom.This is turned on and off after use.

In my opinion, a few seconds can make a difference.

**HiassofT** · June 9, 2021 at 3:56 PM

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Is it possible to set the Raspi to boot from USB at startup and not to search for the sd card first?

You can do that by changing the bootloader's BOOT_ORDER setting to 0xf14 or 0xf4. On LE10 beta you can simply use "rpi-eeprom-config --edit" to change that.

Read through the official RPi docs for more info:

Raspberry Pi 4 bootloader configuration - Raspberry Pi Documentation

so long,

Hias

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