Subj : Re: Pi 5 and NVMe SSD To : Richard Kettlewell From : The Natural Philosopher Date : Wed May 22 2024 21:54:45 On 22/05/2024 15:02, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > The Natural Philosopher writes: >> In this case it looks like it (the bootloader) cant find the FAT >> partition. > > Agreed. > >> Now that could be that it is making some unwarranted assumptions about >> where on the disk that actually is. >> >> And the disk has it either elsewhere, or mapped internally to elsewhere. >> >> I note that it is trying partition 0.. >> is that actually where the FAT volume resides? > > It is, yes. It’s the same layout as the SD card. > > The diagnostics (‘cluster 0 etc’) suggest that whatever it thinks it’s > reading, it’s not getting the data that’s actually on the SSD. > Yeah. I assumed you had done all the obvious stuff. No problems with wimpy power supplies? apparently pi's and ssds take a lot of current at boot time -- "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them" Margaret Thatcher --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .