Hi, I’m hoping someone can help with this as I’m coming to a dead end.
I want to use a 4 TB SSD with Raspbian Bookworm (Debian 12) on a Raspberry Pi 5 with the NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5 NVMe Base and install umbrel with the curl command.
I have tried this before with the NVMe base hat and Raspbian which worked surprisingly well with a 2 TB drive to make a server for something else but since MBR is limited to the 2 TB storage capacity it wasn’t a problem because I was within the limitations.
I also tried it with the 4 TB SSD I have with the curl command which worked until I realised it had changed from GPT to MBR limiting the full capacity to 2 TB instead of 4 and it keeps doing this every time I repartition the drive. So it should work if I can keep the partition persistent to GPT instead of reverting to MBR with the previous 0.5 version.
I have exactely the same Hardware and I can only use 2 TB of my 4 TB SSD.
First I booted the device with Raspian from a 32 GB microSD card, then used the Pi Imager to write the Umbrel image to the 4 TB SSD and then rebooted the device without the microSD card. Umbrel is now booting directly from 4 TB SSD, but I have only 2 TB disk space available.
Does Umbrel support SSD drives with more than 2 TB ?
If yes, how can I fix this problem?
Did you ever solve this? I even managed to convert the umbrel .img file from MBR to GPT and flash it. However it does not start completely. The read/write led of the NVME board pulses for some seconds but then it dies.
EDIT: it seems that a boot drive must be in MBR. So the only solution is to boot from a micro SD and use the NVME as storage.