This is so cool that I'm just sitting here giggling about it. Many newer computers, with newer BIOS, are able to boot from a flash memory card. My HP 2133 systems can do that. So I just used the ...

Raspberry Pi and other SBCs can boot an operating system from SD cards and USB devices. I own multiple SD cards and am a fan of swapping them to instantly switch to a different OS, such as RetroPie, ...

The firmware included with the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.2 introduced the possibility of booting from a USB device: before that, it was only possible to boot from an SD or microSD card. But ...

Balena’s Etcher software is a free, cross-platform tool for Windows, Mac, or Linux that makes it easy to flash an OS image to a bootable SD card or USB flash drive. You can use it to load an operating ...

Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, ...

Storing photos in a digital frame is a great use case. You can print wirelessly from an SD card. Use an SD card as a boot drive to restore a faulty OS. You might be surprised by how you can re-purpose ...

I'm in the process of trying to get kubuntu 12.04.1 installed onto a HP Mini 5101 that has had it's hard drive wiped (i.e. no OS, no partition). I tried the universal USB installer from pendrivelinux, ...

In the wake of this week’s WWDC keynote, in which Apple announced that new MacBook Pro laptops will finally include an SD slot, the tech press is all aflutter about what they seem to think is a new ...

Writing an operating system is no small task, but like everything else it is easier than it used to be. [JSandler] has a tutorial on how to create a simple operating system for the Raspberry Pi. One ...