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These questions refer to the initial starting up of the Raspberry PI.

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Boot from external USB stick / drive?

If it suceeds then it should work fine with some tweaking of the boot parameters that the Pi uses: On an existing image, open cmdline.txt, which can be found on the boot partition, and enter the following … The rootwait parameter is important as it will make the boot process hang until the USB drive is recognised. Without it the Pi may complain that the location doesn't exist. …
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Using the argument bs with dd when backuping an SD card

From Wikipedia: A block is a unit measuring the number of bytes that are read, written, or converted at one time. ... For some uses of the dd command, block size may have an effect on performance. Fo …
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What could cause a failure to display anything on the HDMI output?

This was due to incorrect settings in /boot/config.txt. Actually deleting the config file solved my issue, but its purpose and possible parameters are documented here. …
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Raspberry Pi fails to turn on

In fact, some of the boot process should be occurring in RAM. I would expect it to only halt when reading the image, starting daemons or mounting filesystems. … Try creating or copying files, or unmounting filesystems when the system is 'running' after you help it boot. You should find that this is when it fails. …
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Can I use a different filesystem type for the boot partition?

in the FAT32 boot partition of the SD card. … And yes it is required to boot, and this is why the first partition has to be FAT because this is how the firmware is designed. …
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Rebooting the system

My first thought would be this is a firmware issue. Try updating the firmware using Hexxeh's tool, it appears to be the easiest way for Debian users to update (someone please correct me if I'm wrong). …
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How to add custom loading screen?

You can take a look at Splashy for creating a custom loading (splash) screen. I can't see it on the list of official packages, so you would have to compile it from source. It is available via git fro …
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How can I check for internet connection before running /etc/rc.local script

From this StackOverflow answer; Ping your local gateway; #!/bin/bash ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3` > /dev/null && echo ok || echo error
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Running Headless - checking boot screen messages

Some important ones include: /var/log/boot - For all boot messages, such as daemons starting. /var/log/Xorg.0.log - All Xorg logs. Including any errors. …
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What's the quickest way to start playing a movie after attaching power?

Firstly make sure you boot straight into X. For details on this, please see this question: Auto-start X-windows / gdm on the standard Debian build Then edit your ~/.xinitrc file. …
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Running Headless - How do I create a boot sound?

Essentially all you have to do to create a start-up script is the following: Create a file here and make it executable: sudo nano /etc/init.d/start-sound && chmod +x $_ Add it to the default runle …
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pacman -Syu breaks Pi running Arch

Unfortunately, when packages with config files are upgraded, the files can change. To deal with these files pacman appends them with the suffix .pacnew. Merging of .pacnew files can be a tricky proce …
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Improper shutdown, now 3 flashes on boot

Then mount the boot partition of the SD card and copy the files onto it. If this doesn't work then something more serious has gone wrong and you're going to have to re-flash the entire image. …
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Emulation on a Linux PC

Yes this is completely possible. However, in reality it's a little bit different to how you are thinking. Preamble The SD card contains an image of the operating system. And works by inflating thi …
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Auto-start X-windows / gdm on the standard Debian build

Starting GDM At Boot You need to edit /etc/inittab so that init knows that it should boot directly into runlevel 5 (default for X11) when it starts. … # Boot to console # id:3:initdefault: # this line should be commented # Boot to X11 id:5:initdefault: # this line should be uncommented You then need to tell it what command to run when it starts runlevel …
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