dennis@home wrote:

"Andy Burns" wrote:

I think you'll need a small SD card to boot it, clearly it doesn't
have a BIOS to allow "conventional" USB booting, AIUI it's the GPU
that performs the bootstrap from SD and then hands over to the ARM ...

I expect it will boot from USB or SD card

I expect you'll be disappointed ...

http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

"You have to boot from SD but a USB HD can 'take over' after the initial
boot. You cannot boot without an SD card."