I already post this in the Rasplex section, but maybe this will be implemented in official Plex for the Raspberry Pi.
As stated on the rPi website (see links below), the raspberry pi 3 has the possibility to boot directly from a mass storage device, such as an USB stick or hard drive and from network without the necessity of a microSD card installed.
Is there’s any possibility to build an image for USB sticks compatible with this feature? Considering it has to have an updated bootcode.bin (issued in the ‘next’ branch of rPi firmware) and a proper cmdline.txt.
I haven’t thoroughly gone through all the above documentation but it looks like you may need to use a SDCard first to program the OTP (One-Time Programmable memory). I believe after that is done, USB boot is possible (but experimental).
That’s true, as you can read in the links I provided. I am already running a raspbian this way, but no plex yet.
I just saw that a few days ago usb/pxe booting was pushed to the master branch. So i have good hopes. I also saw a method to use a sd with just a bootcode.bin. Will give that a test as well.
