Prepare a USB flash drive to be a bootable disk

You can use a USB flash drive to make your device to boot from the freshly-built OS on your network-connected host development machine. Alternatively, you can also direct your device to boot from the OS on the flash drive itself.

Automatic configuration

To prepare a USB flash drive to be a bootable disk for your device, complete the following steps:

Note: This procedure only enables you to netboot or pave your device, it won't put anything on your internal storage.

Run the following command to set the build configuration:

Run the following command to build the fuchsia image:

Run the following command to create a zedboot key, replacing DEVICE-PATH with the path to your target device:

Note: To find the device-path to your USB drive, you can run lsblk. If you identify your USB drive as sda, your device-path is /dev/sda/.

This command requires that you sudo into your machine. As a result, you will need to enter your password after running fx mkzedboot.

The `mkzedboot` command does the following:

+ Creates a File Allocation Table (FAT) partition that contains an Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI) System Partition. The EFI System Partition contains
the Gigaboot EFI bootloader and a configuration that specifies that your
device always boot into Zedboot.
+ Creates a ChromeOS bootable partition with a developer key signed Zedboot
kernel partition.

Connect your device to your host through built-in ethernet.
(Optional) To pave your target device with Fuchsia, run:

(Optional) To netboot your target device, run:

Power on your device.

Manual configuration

Manually creating an EFI boot key is no longer supported.