Unable to boot after cloning SD to SSD

January 4, 2024, 16:55

tritonal2418

I'm trying to move from an SD to an ssd using rpi-clone. I've gone through the install and am able to get it to do the clone using rpi-clone sda. It does it's transfers and looks like it's successful but it doesn't boot. After powering off and removing the SD card and powering back up It gives an error Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems: Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) ALERT! PARTUUID= d2a8e92e-02 does not exist. Dropping to shell! I've tried two different usb drives. A Centon and a kingston a400. Both give the same error. I also now can't boot off the original SD card as it gives the same error as well.

tritonal2418

I found I was using an old guide and didn't use a more recent fork. I was able to get a second pi4 to clone perfectly fine but using this new fork still gives the same error. I'm not sure if I'm not uninstalling the old rpi-clone properly so maybe that is it?

_krazy.

Try building the package from source, takes time but almost perfect results every time