what are you using for an M.2 to USB dongle / adapter / enclosure?

[Shadowmeph]

It isn't a beta anymore. Its in the stable firmware branch now.

cool now I am going to have to get off my butt and play around with this

 

[Shadowmeph]

It isn't a beta anymore. Its in the stable firmware branch now.

cool now the funny thing is I cant seem to find the firm ware even on the raspi site I see the OS in the downloads but not any firmware

 

[lowfat]

cool now the funny thing is I cant seem to find the firm ware even on the raspi site I see the OS in the downloads but not any firmware

You need to do it from within the OS.

sudo nano /etc/default/rpi-eeprom-update

then change from critical to stable

sudo apt update
sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a
sudo reboot now

and then afterward you can check if the bootloader has been updated w/

brendon@octopi:~ $ sudo vcgencmd bootloader_version
Jun 15 2020 14:36:19
version c302dea096cc79f102cec12aeeb51abf392bd781 (release)
timestamp 1592228179

 

[Shadowmeph]

thanks i missed that

 

[Shadowmeph]

hmm did all the above it boots from the SS but is slower I mean I dont even have to test it to see that its slower allot slower maybe I have to recopy the image to the SSD using the card copier again ?

 

[lowfat]

hmm did all the above it boots from the SS but is slower I mean I dont even have to test it to see that its slower allot slower maybe I have to recopy the image to the SSD using the card copier again ?

For some reasons, some SATA adapter cause issues. But there is a fix. You'll need to modify the /boot/cmdline.txt file a bit.

brendon@octopi:/boot $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1d50:6029 OpenMoko, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 2c99:0002 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

In my case its the first line.

brendon@octopi:/boot $ sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt

And then I take the ID for the USB SATA bridge, in my case its 152d:0578 and add usb-storage.quirks=152d:0578:u to the file.

usb-storage.quirks=152d:0578:u console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=d34db33f-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait

Reboot and it should be faster.

 

[Shadowmeph]

thanks after 8 attempts i got up up and running properly now I can test things out

 

[boot2boot]

Is this what you are searching for ??

https://www.amazon.com/M-2-External-Converter-Adapter-Enclosure/dp/B076DCNZM3