Having had a major clean up of my junk pile (office) and found a 120 GB Samsung SSD drive I’m in the process of reinstalling from scratch. I hadn’t made that much progress but it does make me wonder what would be the smart way of either migrating from one drive/card to another. Also when it’s up and…

@james_2_roberts [image] sihui: See post above yours. :sunglasses: Like @sihui mentioned And follow the link!

It appears from a lot of other forum discussions that the 3 B+ has some different firmware in it and was known to have issues with boots from external devices (no SD card). Some suggestions that the latest rasberrian stretch may have fixed it.

@Dave_G1 I don’t remember reading about issues with the 3 B+ but that’s been a few months ago.:thinking: When I first got my 3 B+ I put Raspbian on an SD card and booted up to verify it worked, it was a few more months before I moved my OH over and started using the 3B+. I used the instructions post…

Thanks both, I followed the link and read the article. I think I’m misunderstanding as the article reads as a fresh install onto the USB boot device. I have a working system on an SD card which I would like to copy to the SSD. I’ve made the changes to config.txt as per instructions, I then copie…

@james_2_roberts did you install OH (originally on SD card) via openhabian image?

No, I used apt-get to install OH. Cheers J

Models prior to the 3 B+ required some bios flag to be set to enable boot from USB but apparently the 3 B+ has this enabled already. I used etcher to burn the github fresh image into the SSD via my laptop and it did boot and complete the install but a controlled shutdown would just hang and cold bo…

I wonder if the same would be true of you used Etcher to flash the openhabian img.xz on your SSD. I know/think you prefer to install yourself, but if the image works, then you have something to compare against. Here’s the link if you decide to give it a go. https://github.com/openhab/openhabian/rele…

It was the openhabian image that I was having problems with initially and I was going to try the plain Stretch image today but it sounds like you have already done that. I don’t mind too much if the sd-card is just used for the boot process and the rest of the operation runs from the ssd. Did you h…

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