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A Raspberry Pi can be booted from a USB drive. This is helpful if you have a really fast USB SSD drive. | A Raspberry Pi can be booted from a USB drive. This is helpful if you have a really fast USB SSD drive. | ||
| − | Ensure your bootloader firmware is dated | + | Ensure your bootloader firmware is dated Sep 3 2020 or later. |
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pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd bootloader_version | pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd bootloader_version | ||
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| − | If that all checks out, image a hard drive just like how you would an SD card. For example, Balena Etcher can image a USB hard drive instead of an SD card. | + | If that all checks out, image a hard drive just like how you would an SD card. For example, Balena Etcher can image a USB hard drive instead of an SD card. After it is imaged, connect the drive to a USB3 port and power on the Pi. |
Latest revision as of 19:53, 30 January 2021
A Raspberry Pi can be booted from a USB drive. This is helpful if you have a really fast USB SSD drive.
Ensure your bootloader firmware is dated Sep 3 2020 or later.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ vcgencmd bootloader_version Sep 3 2020 13:11:43
Ensure your OS version is 2020-08-20 or later.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/rpi-issue Raspberry Pi reference 2020-08-20
If that all checks out, image a hard drive just like how you would an SD card. For example, Balena Etcher can image a USB hard drive instead of an SD card. After it is imaged, connect the drive to a USB3 port and power on the Pi.