Boot raspberry pi without SD card(first boot)

[Srijan Verma]

I recently bought a raspberry pi 3b+ for a project , I dont have a sd card lying around, and dont want to spend money on buying one unless i have to,
Is it possible to boot and use raspberry using on a usb drive if so, how, could you suggest a guide for this ?
 

[Cysquatch]

Im pretty sure you need to boot from an sd card to change the settings first

[Kilrah]

On the 3B+ it should work out of the box.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md

 

[Srijan Verma]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

On the 3B+ it should work out of the box.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md

 

Thanks for the info it worked

 

[EIZZO]

sorry not my topic but same problem my raspberry pi 3b+ does not boot from SD-card and im trying to boot it from the USB drive which i imaged with Raspberry PI imager and this still doesnt work i do find things on google that 3b+ is able to boot from the USB without need of an SD-card but I cant get it to work 

[Srijan Verma]

On 12/1/2023 at 10:14 PM, EIZZO said:

sorry not my topic but same problem my raspberry pi 3b+ does not boot from SD-card and im trying to boot it from the USB drive which i imaged with Raspberry PI imager and this still doesnt work i do find things on google that 3b+ is able to boot from the USB without need of an SD-card but I cant get it to work 

Its been a long time since this post, you should probably create a new question so that other people can see it (rn probably only I got the notification).

I remember using Etcher/rufus for creating the boot drive, maybe try that.