Video Instruction

How to change the boot order of the bootloader EEPROM to be able to boot from the NVMe drive?

  1. To make it work you have to just power on the CM4 board where there is currently Raspberry Pi OS installed and check the configuration using the command:
  2. Log into the CM4 Raspberry Pi OS through the SSH. Check the configuration in the command line:
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rpi-eeprom-config
  1. You can see the line:
BOOT_ORDER=
  1. Poweroff the operating system on CM4 board.

There is a good tutorial on the raspberry pi official website: Compute Module hardware - Datasheets and Schematics

See the section: Compute Module 4 Bootloader

Table below explains better the correct order.

ValueModeDescription
0x0SD CARD DETECTTry SD then wait for card-detect to indicate that the card has changed - deprecated now that Oxf (RESTART) is available.
0x1SD CARDSD card (or eMMC on Compute Module 4).
0x2NETWORKNetwork boot - See Network boot server tutorial
0x3RPI BOOTRPIBOOT - See usbboot
0x4USB-MSDUSB mass storage boot - See USB mass storage boot
0x5BCM-USB-MSDUSB 2.0 boot from USB Type C socket (CM4: USB type A socket on CM410 board).
0x6NVMECM4 only: boot from an NVMe SSD connected to the PCIe interface. See NVMe boot for more details.
0x7HTTPHTTP boot over ethernet. See HTTP boot for more details.
0xeSTOPStop and display error pattern. A power cycle is required to exit this state.
0xfRESTARTRestart from the first boot-mode in the BOOT_ORDER field i.e. loop

  1. Log into the computer with Linux from which you were flashing EEMC drive, in my case it is my DELL laptop.

  2. Here you can see that you have to use the recovery directory inside the usbboot software that allows flashing the EEPROM.

  3. Using usbboot

If you need, you can clone the repository with the command:

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git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot
cd usbboot
make

And then enter the recovery directory

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cd recovery
  1. You have to change the line in the file boot.conf
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vim boot.conf
  1. Change the order according to the below example:
BOOT_ORDER=0xf25416

#above boot configuration
NVMe, SD card, USB, USB CM4, Network, Reboot

  1. Connect the USB - micro USB cable between the computer from which you will flash EEPROM and a powered off CM4 board.

  2. Then plug power cord into the CM4 board.

  3. Run the below command inside /usbboot/recovery directory

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sudo ./upddate-pieeprom.sh
  1. Then type the below commands to flash the bootloader
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cd ..
sudo ./rpiboot

  1. Unplugg the USB to mini USB cable and power plug and jumper (or female to female cable).

  2. Connect then the power plug back and then you should see that the Raspberry Pi OS boots up from the EEMC storage.

  3. Then connect through SSH or using your keyboard to the command line in Raspberry Pi OS.

  4. After that you have to clone the content of the EEMC storage into NVMe drive using the below command:

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sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=4MB status=progress
  1. Then you have to delete existing partitions on the EEMC drive and create a one partition instead of two that were created previously (boot and /)
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sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0

  1. Then hit d twice on a keyboard to delete partitions.

  2. After that hit keys on a keyboard in this order:

1. n - new partition
2. p - primary partition
3. 1 - partition number
4. hit Enter twice to use default first and last sector of the EEMC disk.
5. p - to print the partition table
6. w - to write changes
  1. Now reboot the Raspberry Pi OS
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sudo reboot

  1. Check with the lsblk commmand partitions

  2. Then use the below command to resize the root partition and follow the video guide.

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sudo raspi-config
  1. Then reboot the CM4.
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sudo reboot
  1. Then check the size of the root filesystem
df -kTh /
  1. After that you can find out that dd did the job, by checking the partition UUID using below commands:
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lsblk
cat /etc/fstab
blkid
  1. Update the system
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sudo apt update
sudo apt list --upgradable
sudo apt upgrade -y
  1. You are done. Good job!