Timeline for How does Raspberry Pi boot?
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| Oct 9, 2021 at 2:55 | comment | added | geerlingguy | This is an excellent answer. Clear and to the point. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 12:48 | comment | added | Piskvor left the building | @syb0rg: Update: it is now possible to boot without an SD card on newer RPis (3+); RPi 1 not at all, only some RPi 2Bs: raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/… | |
| S Nov 18, 2017 at 17:29 | history | suggested | 0xC0000022L | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
There is no source code for the firmware on GitHub, although AFAIK GitHub has a policy of only providing FLOSS projects free of charge. Perhaps the RPi Foundation is paying, though.
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| Apr 9, 2017 at 17:04 | history | edited | goldilocks♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2016 at 22:28 | comment | added | Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com |
@Petr proprietary I think. LICENCE.broadcom says "This software may only be used for the purposes of developing for, running or using a Raspberry Pi device."
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| Nov 3, 2013 at 14:57 | comment | added | syb0rg | @Petr You should ask that as another question! | |
| Nov 3, 2013 at 12:32 | comment | added | Petr | Is that parition, which is read first, any partition with B flag or it must be first partition? What if I made it too large and I wanted to create another one on end of SD card which would be smaller | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:39 | history | edited | syb0rg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:32 | comment | added | syb0rg | On the Raspberry Pi FAQ's, it says "You have to boot from SD but a USB HD can “take over” after the initial boot. You cannot boot without an SD card." | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:29 | history | edited | syb0rg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:29 | vote | accept | Petr | ||
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | Petr | also is there any way to make start.elf read an initrd instead of directly booting the kernel? That means, could I create a ram disk which the system boot from, so that I could for example contain my system on entirely different device than SD card (the OS could be living even on some RAID / LVM storage which would need to be initialised first using a script in initrd) | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:28 | comment | added | syb0rg | @Petr Here is the Github for the Raspberry Pi firmware, I'll edit it into my answer. | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:25 | comment | added | Petr | Is that content of these bin files all proprietary software? | |
| Nov 2, 2013 at 17:19 | history | answered | syb0rg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |