Following the suggestion of @rikoshak, here is small tutorial how to move an existing openhabian installation from a SD-card to an usb-SSD on a RaspI 1 or 2. Because openhabian is based on raspbian, this tutorial is also supposed to work with raspbian. First of all, why should one move the root-sy…

[image] UglyKidJoe: For a complete layman, how do I verify that my system is indeed running on the SSD? Hi Craig, sounds like a connection problem for me. Anyway, if you copied back cmdline.txt.sdcard to cmdline.txt, then you’re running on SDCard again (instead of the SSD). You can verify …

Hi all, I’ve tried again this morning but when I reboot after setting the current to 1 (as done by the menu option), I never get further than this stage… [image] I’ll leave it for another hour and see if it progresses. Otherwise is there possibly any workaround to passing this stage? Don’t know …

Hi @peter_juenger , I was looking after the official raspberry documentation for USB boot. Have you considered to support the program_usb_boot_mode feature as well. I also wonder what are the pros and cons compared with the current solution?

works great: [image] Booting Raspberry Pi 3 (RPi3) from USB mass storage without sd card Tutorials & Examples Update December 2017: This tutorial is outdated. With newer version of Raspbian you can install an USB SSD the same way as a sd card. A lot of open…

Hi @ptweety , So far I have not thought of supporting the native usb_boot_mode of the PI3. The pro of the present solution is that it works with all PIs (1, 2 and 3). The cons are that you need to install openhabian on the SDCard first and that you’ll stil need it for booting (the vfat /boot parti…

Hey guys, I’m open for additions and improvements. So whatever you can think off, hack away! Regarding the topic: I have no strong notion here. As you might have read somewhere else, I am not concerned about SD card failure and don’t need the extra space of an external mass storage. The “program_…

[image] ThomDietrich: From what I’ve read usage of said feature is less related to the system image but relies on a RPi3 and the usb boot mode activated. @ptweety @sihui correct? I don’t see why the latest openHABian image wouldn’t work like this. That’s also my unterstanding. I could modify…

[image] ThomDietrich: correct? Correct. [image] peter_juenger: Another possibilty would be to have a separate menu entry I vote for that!

Just want to report back about my experience with this great tutorial and what I actually did different: created two partitions an my mSATA-SSD NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda2 ext4 …

Hi @ThomDietrich I am not concerned about SD card failure You’ve not encountered any issues? So far I’ve run on SD card for months without missing a beat, but in the back of my mind I worry that the card will burn out, hence I’m desperately trying to get the system onto my SSD which I bought sol…

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Raspi 2: Move system root to usb-SSD

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