Install directly to USB flash drive = boot errors

[Smith263]

I have a Pi3B+.
Wrote appropriate hassio image 32bit to USB flash drive (tried 3 different drives/brands) via Etcher.
Inserted drive to Pi, ethernet cable, etc… When I try to boot the Pi I just get boot errors. It looks like it is trying to do something. But no cigar.
If I leave the sd card inside it just boots to it instead. I thought the 3B+ was supposed to support USB booting.

Is there some trick to putting the hassio image on the USB directly using Etcher or Win32DiskImager? What am I missing? Any ideas?

Or, is there a particular reason we have to install to a SD card first and then burn an image of the SD to USB? That seems very antiquated, wasteful, and superfluous these days.

jpg pic of hassio install error

[tom_l]

Did you set up USB boot on the Pi first?

Raspberry pi boot from USB drive?

I’ve done this - been running for a week now just off my USB stick. I started with an SD card setup with hass.io and then backed that image up using win32 disk imager. I then took another SD card with rassbian and followed the directions you linked. I then wrote my hass.io SD image to my USB stick. Plugged it in and it worked!

[Smith263]

I have a Pi3B+ , I didn’t think there was anything to set up on that for USB boot. I think setup is needed just on the Pi3.

[samrat3star]

Try this on your USB flast drive or SSD i am working with SSD no other options worked but this work Click the Link to see the Instructions : https://github.com/dale3h/hassio-installer

[MrBorg (P. Borg)]

Coool - but then it is not hassOS - I might need to go that way as HassOS does not support USB boot (so SD-card crashes will be quite common for HassOS users)

I have just Read that hassOS is more application stable and easy to maintain than hassIO

[1berts (Adrian S)]

@Smith263

I have a Pi3B+ , I didn’t think there was anything to set up on that for USB boot. I think setup is needed just on the Pi3.

Hi, Did you ever figure this issue out?
I have done everything that you mentioned and tried to look at the other suggestions on here but everything was far to technical for me… I am a Noob…
I have a brand new RPi3B+ I managed to load the Noobs software and it work fine.
When I try to load the Hassio image I get the exact same as your screen shot above!
Regards Adrian

[samrat3star]

You can install Raspbian (stretch) lite on SSD or HDD you want and then use the below Commands with SUDO SU:

Run this as root user (sudo su):

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dale3h/hassio-installer/master/hassio_rpi3bp | bash -s

sudo docker run -d --name=“homeassistant” -v /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant:/config -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro --net=host homeassistant/home-assistant

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/home-assistant/hassio-installer/master/hassio_install.sh | bash -s – -m raspberrypi3

Then Reboot the RPi3 you hassio is started! enjoy