DuckDuckGo raspberry pi boot from usb stick
20151226/http://jonathanmh.com/boot-raspberry-pi-from-a-usb-stick/
20151226/http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1187/boot-from-external-usb-stick-drive
20151226/https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=12015
ARG!!!! Can you boot a Raspberry Pi a USB floppy disk drive? How about a USB memory stick? How about a USB optical disk drive? How about a USB serial port? How about a USB Ethernet interface? No, no, no, no, and no.
Why can’t a Raspberry Pi boot from anything useful? Why does today’s technology have to be so brittle in its compatibility matrix?
Here’s why: The Raspberry Pi’s booting process is revolves around completely incompatible, non-standard, proprietary software. In fact, the Raspberry Pi is labeled as a single-board computer that has a fatal flaw by the Free Software Foundation. According to Debian, the Raspberry Pi boots off of its GPU, and its GPU needs to load its firmware from the SD card. Without the firmware, the proprietary binary blob, the Raspberry Pi cannot boot.
20160104/https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
20160104/https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi
20160104/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Driver_APIs
I guess when people don’t care about compatibility and efficiency, that’s when you get the problem of a million incompatible interfaces and lack of sufficient bridge interfaces.
Yeah, you know, the IEEE Spectrum article on the laptop with no secrets? Yes, this is the problem that we’re talking about, Linux being used as part of a board support package.
Gosh, so many different HDMI connectors. I’m going to have to buy physical adapters for this.
20151226/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
20151226/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HDMI_Connector.jpg