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Pi Desktop won't boot from mSATA PCI-E SSD

imartin
imartin over 7 years ago

Hi,

 

Does anyone have any pointers as to how I might troubleshoot this further?

 

I have A Raspberry Pi3 B+ installed in a Pi Desktop case.

 

Having failed to get the pi to boot from the SSD using the instructions (and various other methods by googling) I tried this route:

 

Using Etcher on a Window PC and the M2 in a USB3 SSD caddy I was able to transfer the latest image.

 

Transferring the caddy to one of the USB ports on the pi Desktop I can then reliably boot from the SSD without a micro sd card installed.

 

On fitting the SSD to the Pi Desktop SSD 'daughter' card the pi refuses to boot. The monitor senses this and goes into power saving mode - so I guess hdmi out on the pi is dead at this point.

 

Thinking it might be the PSU I am now using a 3.0 amp version. This made no difference.

 

The daughter card appears to be working as when I remove the ethernet cable (left for several hours) and reboot - the data and time are current.

 

 

Any advice gratefully received.

 

Message was edited by: Ian Martin Brain fade as to SSD type

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    smanzer over 6 years ago

    I have had lots of trouble with this case using a 128 gig msata drive.  It will not boot if you have a USB hub attached (I use mine for keyboard/mouse/webcam).  It appears as though the OS looks for a bootable USB drive and gets confused.  If you plug the hub into the pi after the rainbow screen it will boot.  Now it will not properly reboot, and if you use it remotely as I do, it will not boot since the hub is installed.

     

    So far, not impressed at the waste of time and money.

     

    My advice - dont buy this case.

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    smanzer over 6 years ago

    I have had lots of trouble with this case using a 128 gig msata drive.  It will not boot if you have a USB hub attached (I use mine for keyboard/mouse/webcam).  It appears as though the OS looks for a bootable USB drive and gets confused.  If you plug the hub into the pi after the rainbow screen it will boot.  Now it will not properly reboot, and if you use it remotely as I do, it will not boot since the hub is installed.

     

    So far, not impressed at the waste of time and money.

     

    My advice - dont buy this case.

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