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The Raspberry Pi 3 requires closed but redistributable files on the system disk to load into the VC4 GPU which starts the ARM cores. -The boot ROM will only try to load these files off an SD card unless a -special config.txt value is set to irreversibly enable USB boot mode. +By default the boot ROM will only try to load these files off an SD card. These files are present in the install media but there is no driver for SD/MMC yet so a USB disk drive and manual steps are required. +To load the firmware off the SD card and have the root disk on USB +after installing OpenBSD reboot and interrupt U-Boot before the timeout +expires and instruct U-Boot to prefer USB over the SD card:

+ +
+Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
+U-Boot> setenv boot_targets usb0 mmc0 pxe dhcp
+U-Boot> saveenv
+U-Boot> boot
+

Opteron A1100 machines on the other hand come with a UEFI firmware