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Looks like I'll keep booting my pi's from usb attached storage. At least with the Pi4 USB speed improvements should be nice.
by officeplant 7y ago
Looks like I'll keep booting my pi's from usb attached storage. At least with the Pi4 USB speed improvements should be nice.
- 542458 7y agoI didn’t even know you could do that! Any idea if it works on the pi4 or not? The docs don’t mention it. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...
- JudgeWapner 7y agojust a guess but s/he may have been referring to just putting root filesystem on a USB drive, but still requiring the bootloader (and possibly kernel?) to be on sd card. It's a one-time "hit" that is completely negligible.
- HankB99 7y agoThat's the present situation and I've used it before. Some recent Pis can boot directly from a USB drive without the need for a bootloader on the SD card. That's still in the works for the Pi 4 as I understand, but network boot (PXE?) will come before that.
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