Y’know, you got me thinking.
Seems the issue with Umbrel 1.x not seeing the NVMe drive had to do with the Pi eprom not being pointed to boot from PCI. Since I have the PiOS installed at the root of the NVMe drive, i wonder if it might be safe to flash the current Umbrel Pi5 OS and see what happens.
Your thoughts?
Not sure if I got what you mean. It most likely will not be able to read it because it boots from SD Cart and if it can see the NVMe, since the structure is not standard, it can format the NVMe.
May not have been clear. I’m booting directly from the NVMe SSD at this point. I used the instructions below to install PiOS and then used CURL after a successful boot on the SSD to install Umbrel. I can see all 2TB and it’s really fast!
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I’m not sure the reason your PiOS seeing the NVMe is just related to updating eepprom, if it’s also related to PiOS, then Umbrel still won’t see the NVMe.
But anyways, 3 days later you can continue with this setup and UmbrelOS1
Well, as I said, I’m nor a tech guru, I just followed the directions. However I do seem to recall that at one point part of the solution was when the eeprom was reflashed. In any case, it’s working. Onward and upward!
Umbrel can, and does, see the full 2TB of the SSD, but I suspect that’s because I installed PiOS first and whatever is in their distribution by way of drivers or dependencies is what’s giving Umbrel access to the drive. Otherwise, there’s no way I’d be able to download the entire Bitcoin blockchain on a 64G MicroSD card.
Good to go so far. Let’s see what happens next. 