Does this mean the SD card is no longer mandatory or just that the handover from SD to USB drive via root=.. was borked and is now fixed?

Check this post for fstab changes (can't test myself)

http://www.raspberrypi.org/for.....-3/#p42208

<r>How would one edit the config files?<br/> <br/> In the debian6-19-04-2012.zip image, there is the cmdline.txt config file (absent from the firmware boot folder on git) which contains:<br/> <br/> dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 roo...