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How to USB boot Raspberry Pi4 ?

navadeepganeshu
navadeepganeshu over 5 years ago

I have heard that Raspberry Pi4 can be USB booted or via the network. Also, seen a few posts on people doing it. How exactly can I do it? I tried and it didn't work on a generic procedure.

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  • shabaz
    0 shabaz over 5 years ago

    Hi Navadeep,

     

    I think it's experimental, i.e. you may have to experiment and it may not work for all scenarios.

    According to the official documentation:

    https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/README.md

    It is not supported _yet_ for Pi 4 but will be available at some point.

    However some very recent articles on other sites seem to report some success (and some failures):

    https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/how-to/boot-raspberry-pi-4-usb

    If you can't get it working you may have to sit it out until it is more hardened or better documented (on an official site).

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  • aswinvenu
    0 aswinvenu over 5 years ago

    Hi Navadeep,

     

    Addding to what Shabas has mentioned above.

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    RPi USB boot is under beta testing now. But you can still test it out. It's mentioned that It wont work for all MSDs.

    Check it out here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bcm2711_bootloader_config.md

     

    About network booting.

    There is a hackaday post on booting RPi4 using PXE (With a bootloader upgrade).

    Check it out here: https://hackaday.com/2019/11/11/network-booting-the-pi-4/

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Regards,

    Aswin

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  • colporteur
    0 colporteur over 5 years ago

    NGU, did a recent post where he provided a reference to USB boot that he said worked for him. I don't want to take any of his credit for the post he made in Alsa no audio (glitch) issue Pi 4 fix He provided the following link https://tynick.com/blog/05-22-2020/raspberry-pi-4-boot-from-usb/  I bookmarked the page because it is something I might try.

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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to colporteur

    It worked perfectly with Raspbian for me.  Subsequently, I moved on to Ubuntu 64-bit so I am going to wait for the Ubuntu release to catch up (they have pressure!).  In the meantime, I am keeping the MicroSD installed just for the boot.

     

    Ubuntu Server 64-bit with the Xubuntu desktop is excellent.  Highly recommended!

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  • colporteur
    0 colporteur over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Great follow-up RE. I took note of your post and had hoped you would chime in for NGU and provide some commentary.

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  • aswinvenu
    0 aswinvenu over 5 years ago

    USB Boot for Raspberry Pi is now officially up. New EEPROM binary is available.

    Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vC3D19e_Ac

     

    Regards.

    Aswin

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