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echo: rberrypi
to: HEADSTONE255.BUT.NOT.THES
from: GOONER
date: 2019-11-09 18:25:00
subject: Re: Booting the PI

On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 22:17:26 +0100
Gareth's Downstairs Computer
 wrote:

> On 15/04/2018 19:20, A. Dumas wrote:
> > Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> >> AIUI, the GPU is used to boot the PI through its SD
> >> card interface.
> >>
> >> Is there any info around on the file format needed,
> >> as my interest (and professional experience going back
> >> over 40 years) is as a low-level OS and  driver bod?
> >
> > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=72260
> >
> >> Also, has anyone attempted to adapt a hard disk to
> >> emulate the SD card interface?
> >
> >
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md
> >
>
> Many thanks for the heads up.
>
> I must get around to unboxing them :-), I've got a Pi 1, a Pi2 and a
> Pi 3 but never commissioned any of them, being somewhat put off by the
> degree of software integration, being a low level man, (Not Invented
> Here!), but now that the future is 64 bit, for me the Pi 3 has to be
> the future.


You are a bone idle attention-seeking  troll.

I bet you $10 that you'll be asking all the same questions in 2019.

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