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   On 17/01/2024 11:12, Chris Green wrote:   
   > I have just tried booting my old[ish] 1Gb memoory Pi4 from USB instead   
   > of from a micro-SD card.  I just copied the SD card to a USB stick,   
   > plugged the USB and turned on.  It works, no hassle at all.   
   >   
   > The 'oddity' is that the green activity LED now flickers regularly   
   > once a second, when booting from the SD card it's on for a while to   
   > start with, flickers randomly for a while and then is essentially off   
   > all the time (with tiny flashes occasionally).  Booting from the USB   
   > is similar at the start but settles down to quite a long flash of   
   > the green light at what looks like one second intervals.   
   >   
      
   Yes. I had the same.  That green light is saying 'looking for an SD card'.   
   There is a way to turn it off.   
      
      
   > It *feels* like the USB 3 stick is faster than the SD card but I've   
   > not really checked carefully to see if this is really try.   
   >   
   Probably is. An SSD is even faster :-)   
      
   >   
   > While I'm about it - what a load of pointless waffle there is about   
   > booting a Pi 4 from USB if you do an internet search. I did a quick   
   > look at some of them, pages of instructions which basically boiled   
   > down to 'write the Pi image file on a USB stick and plug it in'! It   
   > works just the same as an SD image.  The only thing that might be of   
   > interest is that you can set the order of looking for the image in the   
   > firmware so that either SD card or USB is checked first.   
   >   
      
   Yup.   
      
   It was more complicated in earlier models.   
      
   Now it is almost as trivial as an Intel based install   
      
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