Thanks
I shall give that a try tomorrow with the USB stick first.
RasPiOS and Ubuntu have been quite straightforward -- burn to 1TB hard
drive and boot from the hard drive.
At the moment it's up on Ubuntu 21.04 + KDE
Regards
Sid.
On 11/09/2021 16:12, Freek de Kruijf wrote:
Op donderdag 2 september 2021 11:51:01 CEST schreef Guillaume Gardet:
David,
Just to make sure, could you please update your EEPROM firmware by following
this procedure:
https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4#Boot_from_USB_is_not_enabled_by_d
efault
Cheers,
Guillaume
I have been doing some experiments with booting from a USB stick.
I use the Leap 15.3 NET iso to boot from.
Only with this storage device connected the system finally tries to boot via
the network. It gives a message that there are 0 USB storage devices.
During boot I enter a character to interrupt the boot process and gets the
prompt U-Boot>.
I did some experiments with the command "usb". First "usb part" does not show
any partition on the USB stick. However after "usb reset" not "usb start" this
command shows the two partitions, a vfat and ext4 partition.
Using printenv I found an environment variable usb_boot, which looks like a
set commands to boot from usb. So I tried "run usb_boot", and it did work. It
started the NET installation system.
This usb_boot contains the command "usb start", which apparently does not do
the right thing when you did not use "usb reset" first.
Most likely this is the culprit. I reopened a closed bug report about a
problem to boot from a USB device on a RPi4.
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