Raspberry Pi5 - NVMe M2 Boot (Pineberry Pi HatDrive!)

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Hi,

I replaced older Pi with Pi5 because I want to use boot from M2 disk.

I ordered Pineberry HatDrive!

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I choose bottom version because have new not used GIGABYTE NVMe disk in 2280 format and… I want to use cooler maybe with fan.

I don’t have it at home because they should start shipping in a few days but I want to be prepared. I have fresh Volumio copy on M2 disk and wait.

The project’s creators give tips:

Enabling NVMe

If you do not intend to use your NVMe drive as a boot drive you need to enable the external PCIe port on the Pi 5:

Edit the boot config file (sudo nano /boot/config.txt)

Add dtparam=nvme to the bottom of the file, save it, and reboot

PCIe Gen 3 can be enabled with an additional config entry:

`dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

and for boot:

  1. Ensure your system is up to date. This is crucial since old firmware revisions do not support booting from NVMe. Execute those commands in your terminal: sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade
  2. Reboot your Pi with: sudo reboot
  3. Edit the EEPROM on the Raspberry Pi 5. sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit
  4. Change the BOOT_ORDER line to the following: BOOT_ORDER=0xf416
  5. Add PCIE_PROBE to enumerate over the PCIe bus: PCIE_PROBE=1
  6. Press Ctrl-O, then enter, to write the change to the file.
  7. Press Ctrl-X to exit nano (the editor).
  8. Reboot your Pi with: sudo reboot
  9. If you have your NVMe drive connected you can use Raspberry Pi Imager to install a fresh copy of the os. After doing so you can power off your board and remove the SD Card. Your Pi will now boot from the NVMe drive.

Should I take the same steps on Volumio ??

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Volumio image for RPi probably won’t boot if flashed on NVME.

The image is meant to boot from SD-card only, USB boot also doesn’t work

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It is very sad. Has this been checked (PCI boot) ??

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It’s not being checked, when we got the Raspberry Pi 5 sample the PCIE-HAT was not available yet

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One thing to add: even if it doesn’t work now, it doesn’t mean it will never work in the future… but of course no guarantee and no ETA yet

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I’ll probably be the first to test it.

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The hat connects through USB no? So just plugin an USB connected NVME?

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Hi,
No, Hat Drive! is connected via PCIe ribbon cable :

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here is bottom version :

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you can put it on bottom of Pi5 or mount it behind like on piture.

here is top version, only for 2230 and 2242 M.2 disk :

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Ahh nice. I think i need one then:)

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Here is Pineberry site:

and here is TomsHardware article:

I still wait:

" ## Thank you for your purchase!

We’re getting your order ready to be shipped. We will notify you when it has been sent. "

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Today I will prepare my Volumio transport for HatDrive!,

Probably LAN will be between USB and Coax sockets and M2 parallel to XMOS card.

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Maybe I rotate Pi about 90 degrees if ribbon cable will be enough.

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I talked via mail with Pineberry owners. Nice people who, despite focusing on projects, had time to respond to e-mails, it was unexpected for me.

If you are interested with M.2 drive and good sound quality from Volumio in one… wait for January !!!

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Hi,

I have package

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I will try with Volumio.

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I’m going to try the Pimoroni one, I like the idea of ​​it being the base of the raspberry and it’s also much cheaper. I will try to see if it is possible to place it on the base of the official box with a slot to pass the cable through.

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Hi all,
I got Pimoroni NVMe Base last week, it works great on my RPi5 and M.2 256GB SSD.
Best part of it it’s RPi5 base and don’t disturb active fan.

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Have you got it booting Volumio OK.
What are the boot times like and most importantly does it improve the Volumio music search any ?

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At the moment it is only possible to boot volumio from the SD card.

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I try to find info about port for external PSU for NVMe in Pimoroni. On HatDrive! I have double pin for + and double pin for - . It’s necessary because my 2TB NVMe need over 2A and… 5A PSU is not enough for Pi5 with HAT and LCD.

Now I preparing external PSU for NVMe and start play with M.2 disk.

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Currently the only way to run Volumio from NVMe is using berryboot, however berryboot itself still boots from SD.

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I will check it for experiment. My Volumio is still powered on and I don’t need to wait for power on.

First I want use Volumio with M.2 hat like a home media server but I built NAS with Samba on Pi4.Now I bought another one Pi5 8M and will use with HatDrive on this server.

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