mernamer

Appreciate the note on using the DietPi tools, I keep forgetting to use what's there because I've spent a few years on Raspbian light on the command line, and I'm...

Yeah, already powered. Did try different ports, each time the drive appears to function correctly (can mount and view on DietPi) but if plugged in at boot, just won't boot....

The additional drive does not have a boot partition now, did format Ext4 + a second drive, just to check it's the device. For now, both drives have Ext4 filesystem,...

From dmesg: `[ 5.288300] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [ 5.290797] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through` [Turned off async](https://askubuntu.com/questions/129402/no-caching-mode-page-present-when-usb-flash-disk-attached), issue persists. [The](https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=345591) [internet](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162471) thinks...

**Issue currently resolved**: Flashed DietPi to external drive as suggested, appears to be working with same two external drives attached. Trouble initially because... **I knew Ext4 on linux = good,...