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USB Boot not working on the Raspberry Pi 1B #720

Closed mskwon closed 7 years ago

mskwon commented 7 years ago

Trying to boot from a USB drive using a Raspberry Pi 1B (not 1B+) with a SD card containing only bootcode.bin produces the rainbow screen with green LED blinking in a 7 pulse pattern, however booting up never happens although the USB drive does boot up with a RPi2B with bootcode.bin SD card or RPi3B with MSD boot enabled. This is using the most recent firmware/bootcode.bin as of 1/14/2017.

popcornmix commented 7 years ago

Are you saying the previous firmware does work on Pi 1? Or has it never worked on Pi 1?

mskwon commented 7 years ago

I guess looking into it more, it's never worked and that it doesn't work has been known since at least August 2016.

A) Should this issue be closed? B) Is USB boot for RPi1B in the works / planned?

popcornmix commented 7 years ago

Ping @ghollingworth Should USB boot work on a Pi1B (with bootcode.bin on sdcard)?

ghollingworth commented 7 years ago

It should do, although I didn't have one on my desk when I was testing it and therefore it's probably broken (Morgan's law). Will have a look...

Gordon

ghollingworth commented 7 years ago

Try again with the new rpiboot (note the new location)

https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot

mskwon commented 7 years ago

You'll have to forgive me, but could I get some help setting this up?

I can't figure out how to derive the bootcode.bin to place on the SD card for the life of me.

I fear we may have had a miscommunication - I wasn't aware there is a "USB Boot" allowing for booting a RPi from a host computer. Rather than this USB Boot, I was referring instead to the PXE/MSD booting introduced August 4, 2016. Are these the same?