(2019-05-16, 07:44 PM)mikedeflieslife Wrote: Mine is the Pi3B+
I have taken a fresh SSD formatted in Fat32. I have extracted NOOBS to the root of the drive. Plugged the drive into the Pi, removed the SD card and booted.
Absolutely nothing happens, and I'm left staring at a blank screen.
Second try. I did a DD of my Openplotter SDcard, and put that on the drive. Removed the SD card, and started up the Pi with SSD. Still nothing.
Yet when I do a DD of a default Raspbian Stretch installation, it boots perfectly fine from the SSD.
extract the noobs Zip on your pc, you will get a dir "NOOBS_v2_8_1".
Copy the content of that directory to the root of your freshly FAT32 formated drive (not the "NOOBS_v2_8_1" directory itself)
As say the readme.txt, when powered up, "Your Pi will now boot into NOOBS and should display a list of operating systems that you can choose to install."
Note : it take time, make a quiet cofee break
...Noe 2 : the target SSD should have only a single FAT32 partition.
Cordialement
Didier B
Pi4, SSD USB3, OP 3.0 Touch SK 3.2.1 OpenCPN 5.8.4 : Thank you Thank you Thank you
Didier B
Pi4, SSD USB3, OP 3.0 Touch SK 3.2.1 OpenCPN 5.8.4 : Thank you Thank you Thank you