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hm, can an boot from USB without any setup?
i'be ordered a microSD because Lakka wasn't booting but I couldn't boot it in a QEMU VM either and the Pi looked like it was doing _something_, because the green led was flashing....
idk

i found a guide that told me to toggle stuff from Raspbian, but i don't have a Raspbian microSD so i wanted to see if a pendrive will work

· brutaldon · 0 · 0

@grainloom I am pretty sure the answer is no, at least for the standard Pi the only boot method is the sd card as far as I know.

@grainloom Then there's flash for the Compute Module version, which you can write to as if it were USB, but that's for industrial applications.

@MatejLach
actually, i just got it to boot raspbian from USB!!!
it's an rpi3 b+ btw
i guess the info was outdated and Lakka is bugged

@MatejLach
i guess i bought a microsd for no reason :/
maybe next time i manage to get my NDS working i'll use it with the Acekard

@MatejLach
ok not for no reason actually, because my pendrives are quite flaky, so a new microsd might be a good idea

@grainloom Yeah, I hope this works for me as for me is actually sd cards that I most frequently bend or otherwise get corrupted. One time I even damaged a brand new one, trying to get it out of the plastic packaging, lol 🤣

@grainloom Nice to know! I might have to try this myself then.

@grainloom No it cannot out of the box, the bootloader needs some blobs in a dos parttion on the sd to boot.

@grainloom However afer loading those it can get directed to booting from usb.

That's how OpenBSD did it before the internal storage driver has been ported