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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:38PM (#22016387)
Needing an SD card to boot is especially annoying because the pi 3 did have the ability to boot from USB and I think network with no SD card present.

EDIT: To be clear, non-SD boot on the pi 4 "will be added in the future via optional bootloader updates"[0], so hopefully this is a temporary complaint.

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by T3OU-736 on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:17PM (#22016655)
Not for everyone's setup, but network booting the Pi's is an option [1]. Probably not wireless, but it may be something.

Bonus points for the instructions using a Pi as a server for this setup.

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:09PM (#22016956)
That's for pi 3; I don't think it works on 4 (yet)
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Re:What is wrong with all those AArch64 desktops? by zamadatix on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:30PM (#22017068)
Network boot is in the beta firmware now. USB boot is still a ways off.
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