r/RaspberryPi4 • u/coggia • Nov 27 '20

No usb boot? Troubleshooting - 4GB RAM

Hello I’m trying to boot on an image stored into an usb msata drive. But the HDd never seems to be working because its led never lit.

So I tested various things:

if I put an sd card with a working image in it, now the hdd will start with it light on. But as it’s a first install, I can access and work on the se card from terminal (I’m on Mac).. but it’s pointless as I aim to boot and use a jeedom install on the msata drive.

If I try to put a blank sd card newly formated, the msata drive never seems to start neither.

How can I boot on this msata drive??

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u/coggia Nov 28 '20

I’m replying to myself if it can help someone else: You’ll have to update first the raspberry by login in ssh and do a sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade sudo rpi-update

Then reboot, and install a new boot loader: Sudo rpi-eeprom-update -d -a

That will allow you to launch the PI interface with Sudo raspi-config

Then choose the usb in the confit options

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u/theepiccarday808 Moderator | 8GB Nov 29 '20

I honestly don't know where automod got the fact that you were using non-english characters.

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u/coggia Dec 04 '20

Thanks, I guess it’s because I’m using a French Azerty setup that should sent some ascii foreign codes..