General discussion • Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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The latest bootloader can automatically download any OS and install it to SD card, USB or NVME SSD; you don't need a second machine any more.

Is this documented somewhere? What has to be done for starting it (holding shift?)?

If you boot a Pi 4 (and Pi 5 with fully up-to-date bootloader EEPROM) without any bootable drive present, it will output a pinky-red and white screen on HDMI, which prompts you to hold down SHIFT to start Network Install. This can be explicitly disabled by inserting NET_INSTALL_ENABLED=0 into the bootloader EEPROM configuration. You can overwrite an existing bootable installation by simply disconnecting the drive while the Pi boots, then reconnecting it once the embedded version of Raspberry Pi Imager has loaded. (Network Install loads Imager to allow the user to perform the installation).

Edited to add: official documentation for Network Install is at https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... he-network

Statistics: Posted by andrum99 — Wed May 08, 2024 10:50 am

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