OpenSystemsDevelopment / usbboot

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Authored by Ramon Roche
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readme: add macOS build step 

Adds instructions for macOS users.
It will mainly help with the perception that this only works on ubuntu.
You can also use this on macOS without a problem.
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12 12  
13 13 ## Building
14 14  
  15 +### Ubuntu
15 16 Clone this on your Pi or an Ubuntu linux machine
16 17  
17 18 ```
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22 23 sudo ./rpiboot
23 24 ```
24 25  
  26 +### macOS
  27 +From a macOS machine, you can also run usbboot, just follow the same steps:
  28 +
  29 +1. Clone the `usbboot` repository
  30 +2. Install `libusb` (`brew install libusb`)
  31 +3. Build using make
  32 +4. Run the binary
  33 +
  34 +```
  35 +git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot
  36 +cd usbboot
  37 +brew install libusb
  38 +make
  39 +sudo ./rpiboot
  40 +```
  41 +
  42 +**Note:** You might see an OS warning message about a new disk that it can't access, click "ignore", this likely means that the storage is empty and has no filesystem. From here I recommend installing an OS using the [Raspberry Pi Imager App](https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/), or using any other means like `dd`.
  43 +
25 44 ## Running your own (not MSD) build
26 45  
27 46 If you would like to boot the Raspberry Pi with a standard build you just need to copy the FAT partition
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