Question Pineberry Bottom Hat not being seen.

[PiWannabe]

What I have.
Raspberry Pi5
Pineberry Bottom hat
Kingston 2280
Pi5 power supply

What Iv done.
OS 64 on both SD and NVMe
updated and upgraded Pi
edited config:
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
dtparam=nvme
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3
write
save
enter
reboot

And
Then I dp lsblk

And it still only shows the SD card. NO NVMe

I have re flashed the SD and the NVMe and nothing changed.

The light on the Bottom hat is on.

Is there a command to verify the Pi5 is seeing the bottom hat?

Am I missing a step?

Help please. And yes Im a newb with all things Pi related.


Perry

 

[Ralston18]

Pineberry Bottom Hat - this?

https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/hats/pineberry-pi-hatdrive-bottom.html

What NVNe SSD was installed? Specs?

Nothing wrong with being a newb, etc..

Key is to provide as much information as you can. Just be sure to point out what you do not know or are otherwise not sure about.

And, as far as I am concerned, no harm in trying to reason what is (or is not) happening.

What is your understanding of what that "light on the Bottom hat is on" means?

Provide reference links when possible.

The starting point is, I think:

"And Then I dp lsblk"

Typo? did you mean "do lsbik"?

My thought would be to take a closer look at the "lsbik".

 

[PiWannabe]

Pineberry Bottom Hat - this?

https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/hats/pineberry-pi-hatdrive-bottom.html

What NVNe SSD was installed? Specs?

Nothing wrong with being a newb, etc..

Key is to provide as much information as you can. Just be sure to point out what you do not know or are otherwise not sure about.

And, as far as I am concerned, no harm in trying to reason what is (or is not) happening.

What is your understanding of what that "light on the Bottom hat is on" means?

Provide reference links when possible.

The starting point is, I think:

"And Then I dp lsblk"

Typo? did you mean "do lsbik"?

My thought would be to take a closer look at the "lsbik".

yes that bottom hat
Storage Capacity: 512GB
Storage Interface: NVMe
Firmware: E8FK12.3
Interface: PCI Express 3.0 x2
Form Factor: M.2 2280
Type: Internal Solid State Drive
Features: 3D NAND

No I meant to type lsblk
What I read was that the light on the bottom hat meant it had power to it.

 

[Ralston18]

End objective being to enable a NVMe boot if I am following correctly...

Did you see this link:

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/nvme-ssd-boot-raspberry-pi-5

Specifically

"I have the pciex1_gen=3 part commented out above because Raspberry Pi allows you to tweak the bus speed (you can choose Gen 1 for 2.5 GS/s, Gen 2 for 5 GS/s, and Gen 3 for 8 GS/s), but the port is only rated for up to PCIe Gen 2 speeds."

My suggestion is to doublecheck all of your connections and then your code.

Next try other options within that code. Start simple with the objective to at least get the NVMe recognized and booting/ working at some level.

Hopefully just some error of commission or ommission with your code,

Plus, with the additional information you provided , someone else may something that will solve the problem.

Failing that then the next step would be to start swapping components: i.e., the NVMe, the hat, connectors, etc..

Be methodical and change only one thing at a time - keep notes.