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Booting the Raspberry Pi from an USB stick

For all the hackers here: There is a new boot loader available for the Raspberry Pi 3 that allows booting from an USB stick. However, at the moment this needs some low-level configurations. Therefore we only recommend this to experienced Linux users. The guide how to do this can be found on the Raspberry Pi web site.

August 5, 2016
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