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echo: rberrypi
to: BOB PROHASKA
from: BRIAN GREGORY
date: 2020-07-12 19:35:00
subject: Re: Talking to u-boot on

On 09/07/2020 00:10, bob prohaska wrote:
> On FreeBSD machines that _do_ have a serial console it's possible to
interrupt
> u-boot by hitting the spacebar and tell it to look for a USB mass storage
> device with:
> usb reset
> Once found, the command
> run bootcmd_USB0
> will boot from the USB device.
>
> I was hoping to do something similar for the machine running RaspiOS, which
> is isolated with no place to set up a serial console, just hdmi and keyboard.
> It's still possible to simply insert the microSD card and let it take over,
> like an old-fashioned boot floppy. I guess that will have to do for now.

Isn't USB booting a feature that was recently introduced for the
Raspberry Pi 4 only?

--
Brian Gregory (in England).

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