Feature

BOOTING
FROM USB
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n this tutorial we’re going to look at booting
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ŵ„‘‘–ŵ…‘º‰Ŝ–š–). Reboot the Pi with sudo reboot,
then check that the OTP has been programmed with:

> Raspberry Pi 3 ľdvk#gulyhv#dqg#kdug#gulyhv1 vcgencmd otp_dump | grep 17:

> USB drive
You will, however, need a microSD card to set
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If you’re running Raspbian Lite, you will need to
run an rpi-update:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install
rpi-update
Now you need to switch the update branch from
the default (master) to next:
sudo BRANCH=next rpi-update
17:3020000a
Ensure the output 0x3020000a is correct.
Prepare the USB storage device
Attach a USB storage device (which will be
completely erased) to the Raspberry Pi.
Rather than downloading the Raspbian image
again, we will copy it from the SD card still in the
Raspberry Pi. The source device (SD card) will be
/dev/mmcblk0 and the destination device (USB disk)
should be /dev/sda, assuming you have no other USB
devices connected.

Then we need to enable USB boot mode by sudo umount /dev/sda

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Note the command ‘umount’, not ‘unmount’.
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have a Raspberry echo program_usb_boot_mode=1 | sudo tee -a Next, you need to open Parted, pointing to the drive:
Pi running just ŵ„‘‘–ŵ…‘º‰Ŝ–š–
an attached USB
drive mounted sudo parted /dev/sda
on /dev/sda This adds ‘program_usb_boot_mode=1’ to the end
You’ll see a ‘Welcome to GNU Parted!’ message.
You’ll also see (parted) instead of the $ symbol on the
command line, indicating that you’re in Parted. Enter:

mktable msdos

You’ll see: ‘Warning: The existing disk label

on /dev/sda will be destroyed and all data on
this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue?’
Enter ‘yes’.
Now create the two partitions: a FAT32 taking up
100MB of space, the second ext4 taking up the rest.

mkpart primary fat32 0% 100M

mkpart primary ext4 100M 100%

Use print to view the details of the partitions.

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Ours says: Now regenerate your SSH host keys:
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Your Parted print output should look similar to the Edit 2errw2fpgolqh1w{w so that it uses the USB storage
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Our disk is formatted. It’s time to mount the target The same needs to be done for fstab:
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sudo sed -i "s,/dev/mmcblk0p,/dev/sda," /
sudo mkdir /mnt/target mnt/target/etc/fstab
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/target/
sudo mkdir /mnt/target/boot Ilqdoo|/#xqprxqw#wkh#wdujhw#Ľoh#v|vwhpv/#dqg#srzhu#
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/target/boot/ rļ#wkh#Sl=

Now we need to copy the running Raspbian system cd ~

to the target. We’re going to download a program sudo umount /mnt/target/boot
called rsync and use it to copy Raspbian across. sudo umount /mnt/target
sudo poweroff
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install rsync
sudo rsync -ax --progress / /boot /mnt/target Disconnect the power supply from the Pi, remove
the SD card, and reconnect the power supply.
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copied across. The copy process may take some time. to boot after a few seconds.

USB BOOT OVERVIEW

>STEP-01 – SWITCH TO NEXT >STEP-02 – COPY RASPBIAN >STEP-03 – UPDATE SSH

First, you need to install Raspbian using
an SD card and open it on a Raspberry
Pi 3. Switch updates from the master
branch to the next branch. This enables
you to run the beta features, including the
new boot modes.
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use Parted to format it and create two
partitions: FAT32 for booting and ext4 for
Raspbian. Then use rsync to duplicate the
entire Raspbian image on the SD card to
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Finally, you need to regenerate the SSH keys on
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