I'm struggling to get my Orange Pi 5 to boot to NVMe with Armbian 23.02 Bullseye CLI. With armbian-install I picked:

 

4 Boot from MTD Flash - system on SATA, USB or NVMe

 

then install to /dev/nvme0n1p1, followed by updating the bootloader on mtdbblock0, and then powering off.

 

When I remove the SD drive, and reboot. The console remains blank. When I insert the SD drive, and reboot again, the system comes up, and I can mount /dev/nvme0n1p1:

 

$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.6G  9.6M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/mmcblk1p2   30G  2.0G   27G   7% /
tmpfs           7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           7.7G     0  7.7G   0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk1p1  256M  150M  106M  59% /boot
/dev/zram1       49M  4.1M   41M  10% /var/log
tmpfs           1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1000
/dev/nvme0n1p1  234G  1.7G  221G   1% /mnt

 

/dev/nvme0n1p1 looks like it's a clone of /

 

Any ideas/suggestions?
 

Edited March 8, 20233 yr by robnielsen
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I was able to get my Orange Pi 5 to boot to NVMe. I used https://jamesachambers.com/orange-pi-5-ssd-boot-guide/ as an example.

 

Deleted partition on NVMe

gdisk /dev/nvme0n1

 

Copied SD card to NVMD

cat /dev/mmcblk1 > /dev/nvme0n1

 

Powered off the Orange Pi 5, removed the SD card and then powered it back on and it booted from the NVMe. I then resized the filesystem

 /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-resize-filesystem start

 

Now I have:

$ df -H
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            8.3G     0  8.3G   0% /dev
tmpfs           1.7G   10M  1.7G   1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p2  254G  5.7G  245G   3% /
tmpfs           8.3G     0  8.3G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.3M  4.1k  5.3M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           8.3G     0  8.3G   0% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1  269M  158M  111M  59% /boot
/dev/zram1       51M  4.8M   43M  11% /var/log
tmpfs           1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /run/user/1000

$ mount | grep /dev/n
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 on /boot type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=936,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/nvme0n1p2 on /var/log.hdd type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600)

 

I have used the simple way( prompted by etho201):

1. Using the balenaetcher write the same armbian image to a microSd and to a nvme m.2 SSD too.

2. Put the  microSd and the nvme SSD into your orange pi 5.

3. Turn on, load from microSd, start armbian-config, install updates and after that defreeze kernel upgrades.

4. At the same place (armbian-config) write the bootloader on spi MTD, shutdown and remove microSd.

5. Turn on again and load from nvme SSD.