This was at a time before it was easy to boot a Raspberry Pi 4 directly from SSD. Since July I have been running astroberry from an SSD exclusively. Just burn an image straight to your SSD instead of microSD and plug it in to your RPi4! Make sure your RPi4 firmware is fully up to date (sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade) before you do this.
Thanks for the info. I just bought an Argon M.2 case and a 240 GB M.2 SSD. Trying to figure out how to get Astroberry directly on it from Windows. I'd need to get an adapter or install Raspian on the Pi 4 and then burn a copy directly to the M.2 SSD from within Raspian.
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Ah... this is what I did... I already had a USB SSD with Astroberry installed:
In any case, you don't need an M.2 adapter, the bottom half of the argon one m.2. is the adapter, you just need a USB cable from the bottom half to your Windows machine.
Hi all! I'm new to all this, and can use all the help I can get! Argon M.2 & RasPi4 was delivered today, and the WD Blue SSD would get delivered tomorrow.
Reading the above comments, I gather I can directly flash my SSD with Astroberry while it sits in the M.2 via usb cable to laptop. It is also recommended above that I fully upgrade the firmware of the RasPi before trying this.
My question is, can I upgrade the firmware without the SD Card? I'd like to have everything on the SSD.
You need to boot by a method that your current firmware supports in order to update to a firmware that supports a native SSD boot.
This means that you need and SD card, although you might possibly be able to Network PXE boot from a DHCP / NFS server. (The SD card is the method that would be cheapest and least technically challenging).
Thanks for taking the time to reply! I was able to set it up on my SD Card. Then, moved everything to SSD using the copier. It boots and runs on SSD just fine now.