Pi 3b+ boot HA OS from USB SSD

Hi,

My sdcard stopped working so I got a USB3 cabinet for my old SSD intead.

After using balena etcher to get the HA OS image onto the SSD it wont boot. But burning a rasbian image with balena etcher on the same SSD it works fine.

Does HAOS support boot from SSD with PI? I’ve tried searching but it’s hard to know what is the up to date answer. I can’t find anything in the docs.

Do I need to buy a new SD-card to get it to boot?

Thanks in advance!

Do you install 64 bit veersion? And is the USB adapter compatibel ?

I have tried both 32 and 64-bit.

I am not sure what you mean by compatible. But I can boot rasbian OS from the SSD using the same adapter and rasbian OS then boots without problems.

My rPi 4 boots fine from SSD - I believe the rPi 3 should also do so.

Be patient though - on first boot it has to extend the filesystem, this can take a loooong time with a large SSD.

I tried leaving it overnight but no success. Does it say in the output that it is extending filsystem?

“0 storage devices found” does not seem good.

Does it matter if I have ethernet connected or not? If I have ethernet connected during boot it blocks all other devices on my lan to access internet. Not sure why.

Did you find a solution? Im sitting with the same problem.

I wonder why it’s not booting from the SSD? It looks like it’s maybe trying to netboot from a TFTP server, and complaining that no IP address is set…but whether that’s the Pi’s own IP address or the theoretical TFTP server IP address, I can’t say.

Anyone who’s more familiar with the plumbing of this who can comment? (My experience of netbooting stop with Solaris JumpStart, I’m afraid.)

Morning,

Any help on this thread please.

Works here, I assume you already told your pi to boot from USB?

Sometimes it takes me a couple of attempts to get it running though.

Yes the bootup part is sorted. Will have a look thank you.

Yes i did follow the instructions and it picks up the usb but won’t boot from it.

Ow yea, one more thing.
I flat-out refused to boot the x64 image, i used the 32-BIT (PI3)

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.0/haos_rpi4-9.0.img.xz