Questions tagged [boot]
These questions refer to the initial starting up of the Raspberry PI.
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Switching between kernel versions in raspberry pi 4
My rpi4 is currently loading kernel 6.1.14-v7l+ at boot, while I have more installed:
$ ls /lib/modules
5.15.84+ 5.15.84-v7+ 5.15.84-v7l+ 5.15.84-v8+ 6.1.14+ 6.1.14-v7+ 6.1.14-v7l+ 6.1.14-v8+ ...
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How to boot Raspberry 3b from SSD?
I have
Raspberry Pi 3b v1.2
Smartbuy Splash 128GB SBSSD-128GT-MX902-25S3
SATA to USB 2.0 cable
I would like to boot Home Assistant OS (img) from SSD. The same system boots well from SD card.
I have ...
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how can i dump the contents of the EEProm in my Raspberry Pi 4?
I had fiddled with a few things while trying to get my Pi4 to boot from USB (its working now) and i want to make sure i didnt screw anything up.
does sudo rpi-eeprom-config show the contents of the ...
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RPi 3B not booting, only a stable red light
As I said in the title, my RPi 3B just wont boot and has a stable red light.
I have tried the following:
Re-flashing using balena etcher and raspberry pi OS flasher
Using multiple different power ...
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JMicron Box issue with Raspberry PI 400
I've changed my SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2( was broken ) , with new one SSD + box
My new SSD is Lexar NS100 LNS100256AMZN (Amazon Edition) and box is TooQ TQE-2524B.
Operating System is Raspberry ...
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RPI fails to boot after reboot; ok after unplug
Four of my five Raspberry Pi boot flawlessly upon sudo reboot; one fails. This RPi, but none of the others, has a Hifiberry Amp2 mounted on the GPIO header.
I suspect for the below reasons that the ...
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power failure - 2b1.1
a few weeks ago, my pi 2b failed to detect usb wireless adapter.
yesterday, red power indicator flashed sporadically, but booted.
today, it failed to boot.
checked connections, tried different ...
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Does Raspberry Pi 4 support boot medium other than SD card
Does Raspberry Pi 4 support boot medium other than SD card.
Can I boot raspberry Pi from EMMC or NOR flash ?
Thanks,
Swapnil
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Does Raspberry PI 4 support Secure boot
Just wanted to know if Raspberry PI 4 supports secure boot ?
Thanks,
Swapnil
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Raspberry pi 4 1 short 1 long blinks
I have a Raspberry pi 4 model B, have been using it for more than a year. A few days ago it started having problems. After 10/20 seconds from startup it gives an error pattern that looks like 1 short ...
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RPi Camera V2 not detected with Raspberry Pi4 running Ubuntu 20.05 LTS
I am running into a problem in which I am unable to have my Pi detect my new RPi Camera V2. I am running on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) since I am working on a robotics project that requires ROS2(foxy).
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BOOT Error: end Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
I did sudo halt and then power off the raspberry pi, then power off. And the next time I power on the pi, I can't boot the system anymore, and got this error.
I successfully run the commands fsck -y /...
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Can not create a file in bootscript.sh at boot
I am on a Pi Zero 2W running headless with SSH.
I modified crontab to run bootscript.sh on reboot and bootscript.sh runs on startup successfully except for the writes to a file. However, if I run ...
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Mysterious Raspberry 4B boot issue - all official tips followed
I have a weird problem with my Raspberry Pi Model 4B.
When I put USB-C power to it, the red LED is solid on and the green LED at the exact moment of putting power to the Pi flashes very briefly but ...
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What is wrong/what did I do wrong on boot? Raspberry Pi 4 [closed]
I just got my Pi on Christmas and I mostly use it for Discord bot hosting and now I am interested into turning it into a NAS.
I followed Network Chucks video after I installed the Open Media Vault my ...
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Pi boots ok but no led after being dropped
I stupidly dropped my pi 2 model b. It boots fine but there are no green or red leds. Should I be worried?
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If I start a script using audostart where do my logs go?
I've added an entry to my /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart file as follows:
@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@/usr/bin/python /home/pi/...
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Boot RaspberryPi 3B/3B+/4 from SD card but have everything else on SSD
I have some Raspberries (3B/3B+/4) that I want to boot from SSD, but I also want to attach an HDD to them (the classic SSD for OS and HDD for data)
The thing is that this setup has give me a lot of ...
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Logging output from autostarted program (LXDE-pi/autostart)
So I have a headless Pi CM4 running standard Raspbian, its only function is to auto-start an application at boot which is invoked from /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
I would like to log the ...
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Pi zero W 2 - bringing back from dead
i had for a long time dead RPI Zero 2 Wifi, and i did a few modifications - soldered pins to I2C, +5V and GND, and put a mini RF connector for pigtail antenna. Tried overclocking it.
However Pi got ...
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execute a line of code in the terminal after Pi is booting
I need to write this line of code on my Pi terminal in order to make my music software to work
sudo systemctl restart my_puredata.service
How can I make Pi automatically execute this line of code ...
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Why two bootloaders for the same OS? [duplicate]
I’m currently playing with openSUSE on my RPi4. This distribution installs Grub for apparently kernel version fallback and btrfs snapshots recovery management.
I’m puzzled by the presence of U-boot at ...
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Raspberry pi 4 shows solid red light
My raspberry pi 4 is showing a solid red light, the green light stops blinking shortly after I power on. Everything was working fine up until last night, I have the raspberry pi power adapter, 64GB ...
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Raspberry Pi not booting automatically after a power outage
I have an RPI4 (Buster) with SD Card for root storage as a home server.
Recently I noticed that it does not boot up automatically after power outages.
When the electricity is turned back, all lights ...
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Raspberry Pi 3/Raspbian 11 : Network Manager not working properly
My Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian 11 has been acting up for several weeks now:
I managed to set up the wireless LAN at boot, but now, whenever I boot it, there's a 90% chance that the desktop top bar ...
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USB boot unstable on Raspberry Pi 4 4gb
My SD card died a few months ago and I didn't have a spare so i just installed & booted from a USB drive.
However since then I've noticed that the Raspberry Pi freezes every 24-48 hours requiring ...
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Raspberry Pi multiple OS
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I am currently running a ArchLinux OS on my Raspberry Pi 4 compute model with a custom base. The OS is dependend on ReadWrite/ReadOnly modes. If you turn off the device while still in ...
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Raspbian boot up splash screen
We have a raspberry pi 4 based device with a display, and when it is booting, it should start our program (which is does as init.d service). It boots up to console and then starts the program as it ...
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PXE Boot Pi Zero via USB LAN adapter
Is it possible to PXE boot a Raspberry Pi Zero (2W) using a USB LAN adapter?
Specifically, using these components:
Raspberry Pi Zero 2W
USB Micro -> USB socket adapter cable
TP-Link UE300 (Realtek ...
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Boot drive shows empty after reboot
I just inserted the SD card of my Raspberry Pi into the card reader and I added a wpa_supplicant.conf file because it was not connected to the internet.
However when I inserted the SD card in my ...
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Is it possible to boot Raspberry Pi 4 model B from USB without touching SD cards at all? [Broken SD card slot]
My SD card slot broke off (as in only pins are left and I would have to hold down an SD card for it to boot). 1
I've written Raspberry Pi OS to a USB drive, I was told the Raspberry Pi 4 B could boot ...
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RPI not connecting the wifi
As written I am unable to connect my RPI to the internet.
What happened is I took the RPI from the office (where it was working) and took it home (to a new wifi).
To save myself the headache, before I ...
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1-Wire internal pullup isn't enabled on boot, but can be enabled after boot
On a Pi 4 I have the following lines in /boot/config.txt:
dtoverlay=w1-gpio
gpio=4=op,pu
This should enable 1-wire on the default GPIO pin, which is 4, and then enable the internal pullup resistor.
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Raspberry PI 4: green led 4 long flash followed by 4 fast blinks
Im trying to install octoklipper onto my Pi 4. I have a 32gb SD card and after the writing of octoklipper my sd card gets split into 3 partitions. one of three partitions is unallocated. I have tried ...
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Raspberry Compute Module 4 with Wi-Fi Booting Error
I have some question about RaspberryPi CM4 Wi-Fi module, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB Storage.
First, I am using Cm4 with Wi-Fi and without Wi-Fi Modules for some projects with special IO Board.
Second, the cm4 ...
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virtually boot my rpi-disk in mac env
I have an SSD disk with Raspbian on it. When I plug it into my MAC it only shows the boot partition (not the filesystem that you get once booted into the actual raspbian).
Is there a simple way to ...
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USB Boot question
I read on the web that Raspberry PI 4 boots from USB drives. Does it require any additional steps than just burning a USB drive with the OS image (eg: Ubuntu for RPi). Do I need to decompress the ...
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New install: black screen and no keyboard after boot sequence
I've dusted off my old Raspberry Pi, flashed Raspberry Pi OS Lite to a new SD card, and tried to get it going again.
It boots, runs through the startup sequence, and then goes to a black screen. ...
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Run py script on boot
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I moved on to a different question since I had not accurately spotted the problem. The problem is that cv2 module can not be found when the script is triggered either ...
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Moving RaspberryPi OS to a larger SD card [duplicate]
I am using RaspberryPi OS Lite on my model 3B on a 8Gb SD card, but ran out of space. I tried copying the old SD card using
dd on the whole SD Card
dd on both partitions separately
balenaEtcher (...
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(Solved) RPi4 boot failure w/ dmesg prompt: `Give root password for maintenance`
My raspberry was fine a few days ago. At one point it just vanished from the network. After connecting monitor and keyboard I discovered that during initialization of network it drops do maintenance ...
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Black screen until turning TV off and on again (Rpi OS 64-bit only)
When booting Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit on a Pi 4 (4 GB) the boot process is visible and normal until the "Welcome to Rpi OS" screen — after that the screen turns black (TV still detecting a ...
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Can't boot to root shell
I added init=/bin/sh to my cmdline.txt in an attempt to troubleshoot this problem, but upon booting I land at the normal credentials prompt.
I'm using a MicroSD adapter to edit the file with a Windows ...
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RPi CM4 not booting Ubuntu 22.10 from USB (2.0)
I'm having trouble getting started with my Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module with 32G eMMC Storage.
It's installed on the RPi Compute Module IO board so USB booting is a little different for it (no USB3) ...
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pi3b chromium kiosk stopped working
I have a raspberry pi 3b running in kiosk mode, which had been working for 1 month with no issues. But suddenly it stopped lauching chromium-browser, and the OS is extremely slow. It now takes 15 ...
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Boot on Live Linux (USB) with command line of SD Card Raspbian
I would like to be able to boot on a live linux contained in a usb key connected to my Raspberry PI, from the terminal of my primary Raspbian contained on the SD card.
The goal is to be able to ...
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Raspberry pi 4b won't boot. Red led lights up but green led dead
So I've been using my pi4b for a couple of days and I was trying to run some open cv python programs on it when it suddenly go disconnected(I use the pi via putty and VNC viewer). Ever since that the ...
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Partitioning Disk and Filesystem setup on Ubuntu Images using cloud-init
According to the cloud-init documentation using the user-data configuration one may be able to partition the disk, see cloud-init's Cloud Config Documentation as well as setup up mount points.
I have ...
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raspberry fails to mount root filesystem on boot
After an upgrade of raspbian I rebooted the system and it printed the following message:
"mounting /dev/mmcblk0p2 on /root failed: No such device"
After that an emergency shell (busybox) ...
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Using Run Pin for Startup on pi zero w and v2
I'm planning on running a pi zero 2 connected to an arduino over uart for a personal project, but I'm using a pcb and I want to power it on and off without using any cables.
My current plan is to ...
