At this point, we can generate an SD card image that is composed of an
EFI system partition, a SquashFS root partition (a), a blank root
partition (b), and a data partition. On the EFI system partition are
the Raspberry Pi firmware and device trees, U-Boot and GRUB. The
SquashFS filesystem contains the kernel and the whole filesystem tree.
A Raspberry Pi can successfully boot from an SD card containing this
image. It's not quite usable yet, because there's no writable storage
available, or indeed any way to log in.
Dustin