Re: HOWTO: USB boot on 8 GB RPi4 with no SD card

[Ted Spradley <tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:06:29 -0700
Michael Cheponis <michael.cheponis%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> The SD card is a nasty reliability issue with the RPi.  Now, it's possible
> to do away with the SD card entirely.  Thanks to Paul Mather for doing this
> first.
> 
> Here's the recipe (it's much easier than this list makes it seem):
[...]
> I hope this is a fairly accurate write-up.  If you can't get it to work, I
> can probably help.

Thank you so much for this neat, simple write-up. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for me.

When I try to boot my RPi4 without an SDcard it fails with "SD card not detected" after "bootloader: a5e1b95f Apr 16 2020"

Running Raspbian I get:

pi@raspi4:~ $ sudo rpi-eeprom-update
BCM2711 detected
Dedicated VL805 EEPROM detected
BOOTLOADER: up-to-date
CURRENT: Thu 16 Apr 2020 05:11:26 PM UTC (1587057086)
 LATEST: Thu 16 Apr 2020 05:11:26 PM UTC (1587057086)
  FW DIR: /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/critical
  VL805: up-to-date
  CURRENT: 000137ad
   LATEST: 000137ad
 pi@raspi4:~ $  

Is that the right firmware to make this work? Or have I screwed up making my USB memstick?

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Ted Spradley <tsprad%talent-free-studios.com@localhost>