Re: using SSD on RPI3 - strategy question

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:42:17AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Is anyone successfully booting from USB without a uSD card?  Were you
> able to program the USB bootmode bit under NetBSD?  At this point it
> seems like if so that's news.

Never tried, but the standard method is to configure the bootmode
with the regular bootloader.

Add the line

program_usb_boot_mode=1

to config.txt and boot. This will irreversibly enable USB boot and
you should remove that line once it is configured.

You can verify the OTP bits with 'vcgencmd otp_dump' from the
raspberrypi-userland tools.


Greetings,
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                                Michael van Elst
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