Appologies for the broken link. That was due to the way I entered it into my post. It should have been https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... BOOT_ORDER
It sounds to me like the problem is with the geekworm board.
If you have a spare SD card you could try the following but you'll need access to a Linux box:
- Format the SD card to FAT32
- Find and note it's PARTUUID
- Copy the contents of the SSD's boot partition to the SD card
- Edit /etc/fstab on the SSD so that the entry for /boot/firmware uses the PARTUUID from step ii
- Optionally change the 4B's boot order back to SD card first.
- Insert SD card
- Boot
If all goes as expected the 4B should boot from the SD card with the root partition on the SSD. Step iv is important otherwise you'll get the wrong boot partition mounted which can cause problems with updates.
That worked!
I find it very strange that it can boot just fine from SSD otherwise but can't with this NASPi case. I can only figure that starting watts/volts/amps/whatever is ~just~ a bit too much compared to running watts/volts/amps/whatever for the SSD. But yeah, surprisingly, changing boot partition to the SD card and using the SSD to run from works just fine.
Thank you very much!!
Statistics: Posted by Razash — Sun Jan 25, 2026 7:35 pm