USB Boot on Raspberry Pi 3

Installation Home Assistant OS
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@Jullimullins

Thanks for all your help. Got it working tonight using the following steps for anyone else trying to piece it all together.

  1. Installed Raspbian Lite (2017-04-10) on a MicroSD card and followed the instructions here to enable USB boot mode.
  2. Rebooted Pi then shut down a few minutes later.
  3. Burned hassio Pi3 image to a 16GB USB drive.
  4. Booted PC into Gparted to re-partition hassio image.
  5. Increased /dev/sdb4 from 1GB to around 4GB (must do first otherwise you can’t expand the resin-data partition).
  6. Increased /dev/sdb6 from 1GB to pretty much whatever was left.

Resin-os Hassio File System
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  1. With the modified thumb drive back in my PC, I added the following located in the resin-boot drive and also in the resin-rootA partition inside the resin-boot folder:
    I changed the “root” option in cmdline.txt to:
    root=/dev/sda2
    and I added the usb boot line below to config.txt, right at the end:
    program_usb_boot_mode=1

  2. I then put the reworked thumb drive back in my Pi3 without the MicroSD card and after about 1 minute, the Home Assistant logo appeared so I knew we were underway. 20 mins later, working Hassio system with no MicroSD card. Yay.

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