HomeAssistant on Raspberry Pi3 Migrating from SD to SSD issue

Installation
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I followed the instructions for migrating from SD card to SSD drive on Raspberry Pi 3.

  1. first booting HomeAssistant Lite (32 bit)
  2. From SSH Set and checked that 17:3020000a was set:
    echo program_usb_boot_mode=1 | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt
    vcgencmd otp_dump | grep 17:
    result: 17:3020000a

But HomeAssistant will not boot from SSD only red led is on and no activity on SSD drive - UNLESS I have the old HomeAssistant SD in my PI3, then it will boot either from SD or from the SSD / USB if it is attached. If I check the log it first starts up on the SD and after several minutes it finally boots from the SSD, but not without the SD card. And that was not the intention since it takes longer to boot now.