Raspberry Pi bootloader enables OS installs with no separate PC required Beta bootloader is available now, will roll out to all Pi 4 boards later.

Raspberry Pi's bootloader now lets you install an OS from the network.

It seems that some early bootloader firmware versions did not properly support this, so you have to be sure that your Raspberry Pi 4 has bootloader eeprom firmware dated Sep 3 2020 or later.

Setting up a Raspberry Pi with an operating system no longer requires the use of another computer thanks to a new network bootloader. The Raspberry Pi single-board computers run an OS from a ...

Raspberry Pi gets USB bootloader The Raspberry Pi Foundation has brought out the beta release of a firmware update featuring a bootloader with USB boot support on the Raspberry Pi 4. The update allows ...

Network boot After updating the bootloader on your Raspberry Pi 4 or 400 using Raspberry Pi Imager, you'll be able to test out network boot for yourself.

Early versions of the Raspberry Pi could only boot from SD cards, but newer ones can boot from any USB device, like an external drive or USB stick. Here's how.

However, if you've gone looking for a Raspberry Pi 5-ready RetroPie ISO image to install the operating system from since the Pi 5's October 2023 release, you've probably come up empty.