Questions tagged [boot]
These questions refer to the initial starting up of the Raspberry PI.
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Terminal and program run on boot-up
I am trying to find a way to open a terminal and run a program on boot using Raspberry Pi's newest Raspbian Jessie. I have tried to use the following:
/home/pi/.config/autostart/whatever.desktop
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How can I recover from a system boot autoload service that keeps rebooting?
I don't want to start over from scratch.
There are several ways I could change the monitor.service so it would fail or run without booting:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl --full edit monitor....
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Raspberry Pi OTP and booting from USB
I was reading this article about booting the Pi from USB
It mentions that
the Raspberry Pi 3 requires the USB boot bit to
be set in the OTP (one-time programmmble) memory.
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Once ...
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Pi3 won't boot Assertion 'str' failed at ../src/basic/utf8.c:195
I have an raspberry pI 3 that won't boot. The problem is probably the sd card since it works when I switch to another sd. During the boot screen the PI give me
"Assertion 'str' failed at ../src/...
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Would lifting the pads off of the display and camera connector kill a RP?
Tried to remove some I/O that i dont need from my RP3 A+ to fit in a mobile project.
Ive done this before on my RP3 B with great success. But I wasnt to gentle when removing the display and camera ...
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How can I use an init ramdisk (initramfs) on boot up Raspberry Pi?
I need to load driver on early stage booting. For development I use LVM (logical volume manager) so I can easily revert test setups to the default image from a snapshot. For this I have to load the ...
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How to fix the systemd file permissions?
I have a raspberry pi python3 program "monitor.py" that works from the terminal
But it fails to run when I start it from boot.
Check status:
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl status monitor.service
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How to examine the booting status of a Pi0 without USB/HDMI connection
I connected several devices to my raspberry pi Zero. These devices are breakout boards for sensor and some ICs. Sometimes I suspect that one of the boards has short circuit. For example, when I modify ...
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Can the GPIO pins be used to compromise a raspberry pi?
For example, would a touchscreen device that uses the below pins on a Raspberry Pi 3 be able to do something more than say, send touch and keyboard events? Anything hackish/nefarious? (edit: use case: ...
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cmdline.txt appears to be empty after editing it
I've edited cmdline.txt on my Raspberry 3b + model to not show the logo during the start up. I've added logo.nologo at the end of a line.
After that, I restarted the device, but I was still seeing ...
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I fail to start a python program in Thonny on startup
------------- instructions to configure systemctl -------------
[Running a script at bootup : Good practices?, rc.local falling, Other options?
The following is the selected answer to the above ...
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Pi won't boot after memory swap
When turning on my Raspberry Pi, the boot fails after an error.
It says:
-bash: /usr/local/virtualenvwrapper.sh: No such file or directory
This happened after I changed the /etc/init.d/dphys-...
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Bash Script wont launch GUI at startup [duplicate]
I need to launch a couple programs on startup, and I wrote a bash script to do so as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Starting up" >> "/home/pi/Desktop/startup-log"
CONTROLS_DIRECTORY="/...
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Raspbian Stuck on Boot Info
I am new to the Raspberry Pi, so sorry if I am missing something obvious here. I was about to install something, so I typed in sudo apt-get update, sudo-apt get upgrade and then sudo reboot. While it ...
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Configure pi so it doesn't show boot info - splash screen only
I'd like to configure my pi 2 so that I dont see any booting info. I'd like to have a splash screen (or video if thats even possible) and boot into a C++ game I wrote.
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Boot from USB, if no then SD card
What I want to do is something really simple just like in an ordinary computer you can set the boot order, I'd like to do this on a raspberry pi, if there is a bootable usb media use that, if not fall ...
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Using command (dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 | sha1sum) while running from initramfs [closed]
I have an opensource airgapped raspberry pi project seen at the following link:
www.privatekeyvault.com
I have provided a method for installing LUKS full disk encryption seen at the following:
https:/...
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Run steam link automatically when starting raspbian
I have installed steam link in raspbian stretch, but I would like it to start when the operating system starts, I've been reading and I tried it with init.d but it did not work for me.
Thank you.
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audio doesn't play when running program on startup
I have a python code that runs an mp3 file. It works perfectly when I run it through python 3.5.3 shell on my pi-top,
and I also managed to make the program run on startup, but then everything works ...
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Program not able to open file at start up but when running from command line, runs as expected
using a library from https://github.com/BLavery/LIBtft144
this line of code doesn't seem to run when I run the program from a systemd. I also tried calling it from a crontab call of my .py program.
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auto execute a terminal command in raspberry pi startup
I am working on a pi project which uses audio out through HDMI. I am using respeaker mic for audio in. My problem is everytime when I startup the pi, the default audio is analog. I need to change it ...
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Python script loads on startup with a GUI, but none of the fonts load with it
I'm working on integrating my raspberry pi into a car display that shows some OBDII readouts. However when I auto start my python script none of the fonts get loaded and it looks like this:
However, ...
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Mounting of USB drive within rc.local works only until I log-in
This worked prior to current upgrade.
Here's my rc.local (fragment):
date > /tmp/rc.log
sleep 20
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sg3t/
df >> /tmp/rc.log
sleep 10
df >> /tmp/rc.log
after login, ...
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Automatic shortcut execution on boot
I want to achieve following:
run my GUI (made in Tkinter interface) application automatically as I boot the RPi (i.e. no desktop screen loading). But I want to be able kill the application so I can ...
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Booting from USB
I have spent well over 2 hours on trying to boot my Pi 3B with USB. From what I have understood, as long as the program_usb_boot_mode is set to 1 you can simply plug in the USB and boot. However, in ...
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Is it possible to clone the SD Card to a USB flash drive and boot from it?
I have a new Raspbery Pi 3 B+ which actually boots from a 8 Gb SD Card. Now I want to toggle to a 32 Gb USB flash drive, so I wanted to clone the SD Card.
I think it should work, but I can't succeed. ...
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Failed to start Load Kernel Modules and now Keyboard & mouse won't work
So I was buys performing an update and upgrade of the raspberry pi using
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
While that was being performed The system accidentally shut down during the last few ...
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GPIO reading high (because its an input) at boot
I am making a thermostat and one of the issues I have with the pi is that on restart it sets all its pins to input which will provide power to devices, in this case a relay being used to switch on and ...
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Trouble getting picam to take a photo on boot (init..d method)
I want the camera on my pi (Rpi 3B+) to take a picture every time it boots up. I've read through several other questions of people trying to do similar things, but I haven't ever found the script that ...
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Python script not running on start up
I have edited ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart using nano (without sudo) to open a lxterminal and run a simple python script that contains an infinite while loop with a print statement.
In my ...
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run bash script at startup
i needed 50+ rp points to comment on this one:
Run bash script on startup
my "problem" is that i use adafruits read only script: https://github.com/adafruit/Raspberry-Pi-Installer-Scripts/blob/...
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Couldn't get a display on the screen when using the RPi
I had a long time I didn't get my hand on the RPi. I got the Emlid image burned on a 8gb micro sdcard using the dd command. I have the pi connected to a the screen using HDMI to VGI cable, but I get ...
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Run Java Swing GUI on boot
I have a Java Swing GUI that needs to be run on boot.
Tried adding a shell script (which starts the program) in config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart : @sh script.sh
script.sh:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
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How to reboot my Raspberry Pi after wrong edition of my fstab?
I edited my fstab file (/etc/fstab) to mount a new /media local network drive.
After this wrong edition, my Raspberry eventually can't boot anymore. I get the error:
Cannot open access to console, ...
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Problem with RFID-RC522 and Raspberry PI Background script
I am working a project to read an RFID tag, and make the buzzer sound. It works correctly in foreground. I call the python script via /etc/rc.local and it is triggered when I execute /etc/rc.local via ...
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Viewing the contents of an IMG file
I have an retroPi img file that I wanted to view the contents for. I've burned the contents onto an SD card and when my Mac mounts the volume, I only see 50 or so megabytes worth of content, yet when ...
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RP 3b - green led flashes 4 times [duplicate]
I tested one SD card on 2 different RPis and I get the same pattern: no boot, green led blinks continuously on a 4-blink pattern. This would point to a problem with the SD card but I tried reading the ...
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Boot: multi-user.target starting late
My Raspberry Pi Zero running Raspbian Stretch Lite (2018-10-09) seems to be slow at boot. First off, the state of the OS:
It is basically a freshly installed image on a properly working Class 10 SD ...
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Can't achieve process about booting from USB
I'm trying to install RetroPie on an USB stick and I want to boot on it.
So I follow this instructions HOW TO CREATE A RETROPIE USB BOOT DRIVE FOR RASPBERRY PI 3
The start of the instructions seems ...
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Raspberry Pi not booting up and sd card splitting
I am using a raspian stretch and tried to write the image onto a SD card. Whenever the writing process is completed a partition 4gb is formed and the windows prompts me to format it. I am using a 16gb ...
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raspbian stretch overrides cmdline.txt kernel.hostname parameter
i'm building an embedded prototyp with a raspberry pi 3b+ and its booting via pxe from the network read only.
Multiple devices share the same root file system and just the boot folders are customized ...
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Raspberry PI 3 hangs on startup every other time
I have an issue with my Raspberry PI running Raspbian 9 hanging on startup - but not always. It will hang every other launch.
When the problem occurs, the launch first hangs with the last message
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How to re-enable blinking terminal cursor on Pi after boot?
I have set up a clean boot on a Pi with Stretch Lite and set it up so that it disables displaying text during boot and shows a Plymouth splash screen. One of the commands in /boot/cmdline.txt is "vt....
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Setting official touchscreen display boot-time brightness
I've got an official display, and having found other questions about setting the brightness I know I can change the brightness, and make a script that will run on boot, but that means the screen will ...
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Booting directly into app: remove console prompt
I try to quietly boot into a qt app on a raspberry 3 running raspian stretch. In my /boot/cmdline.txt I have
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty3 root=PARTUUID=02e50ed3-02 ...
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Fallback kernel.img possible in config.txt
I have a raspberry with a customized OS. The image it should load is described in the config.txt on the boot partition. The image is called zImage and the line in the config.txt is:
kernel=zImage
I ...
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Executing multiple scripts on startup in a particular order
I am running Raspbian GNU Linux (9) Stretch, on my Raspberry Pi 3.
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Python script which makes use of 2 inputs to the Pi. Calculations are performed based on these inputs, and values ...
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Run node.js code on startup
I've been trying to run this code on startup for the last two days:
I've tried the rc.local method, the init.d method and sudo crontab -e method but none of them worked for me !
The file is ...
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How to run a script which uses I/O's on startup?
I have a python script which makes use of the standard RPi I/O's where I am detecting multiple inputs and storing values to a database. The script runs without exiting until the Pi is powered off.
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Start Python CLI app on startup
I have a Raspberry Pi 3b+ that is booting to the pi user terminal, no GUI. I need to have a small CLI app run after the pi has finished booting.
So far I have tried editing /etc/rc.local, and using ...
