From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] UEFI boot on ARM / RPi
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 17:16:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200522171659.74092c56@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XMdTy0K1ta+L2z_B3kzuA2uoFBzV0Ex4t0uWY=oMPeXMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 22 May 2020 08:23:46 +0000
hiro <23hiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> this is useless. just put the kernel on sd card and then your external
> disks should work just fine for everything else.
>
> stop mashing keys.
That's what I used to do, and it did mostly work, but having to edit
config.txt whenever I want to boot something else is cumbersome,
especially when the kernel or bootloader is broken or corrupted.
I'd much rather use the microSD as just a bootloader and boot whatever
from wherever I'd like. So it's definitely useful for me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-22 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-21 23:51 raingloom
2020-05-22 2:14 ` [9front] " Roman Shaposhnik
2020-05-22 2:29 ` ori
2020-05-22 8:23 ` hiro
2020-05-22 15:16 ` raingloom [this message]
2020-05-22 16:58 ` hiro
2020-05-22 22:44 ` raingloom
2020-05-22 22:52 ` Daniel Morandini
2020-05-23 3:34 ` raingloom
2020-05-23 7:34 ` hiro
2020-05-23 19:20 ` John Weaver
2020-05-22 10:59 ` cinap_lenrek
2020-05-25 3:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2020-05-25 6:49 ` cinap_lenrek
2020-05-23 23:13 ` Ethan Gardener
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