vtanguay wrote: First, I want to thank you for this great write up. Very easy to follow along without knowing what I'm doing (for parts of it). Question at step 2 of making almost everything off the SSD:

sudo rsync -avx / /ssd

After a long list of copied files, I get the following error:
rsync: write failed on "/ssd/lib/modules/4.19.115+/kernel/drivers/iio/pressure/bmp280-i2c.ko": Read-only file system (30)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver .c(374) [receiver=3.1.3]

Is his expected? Did I do something wrong? How should I fix?

EDIT: I must have done *something* wrong... I continued with the instructions and the thing will no longer boot... with or without the SSD.


Thought I'd close the loop with this. I've resolved my issue. Again, I want to thank you for the guide it was very helpful for me.
For reference, it turns out the issue was insufficient power. I hadn't receive my powered USB hub yet so the SSD was plugged directly into the pi (powered by a cheapo wall wart). I got the exact same problem the second try. dmesg command revealed insufficient voltage. Tried again with the new hub and it copied all the files over.

When it was time to bootup, it still did not work because I use a Sabrent SATA USB adapter. After some reading, I used the quirks fix and now everything works great. I have a new adapter ordered.
Thanks again.
Vince

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