Unanswered Questions
390 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Plymouth bootsplash starting too late
I've set up a Plymouth bootsplash inside an initramfs on Raspbian buster. (It's using something similar but not identical to the raspi-config RO overlay.) But I've noticed that there's a ...
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Android Things (0.5.1) fails to initialize GPU on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B?
I have just set-up a Raspberry Pi 3 with Android Things using the latest developer preview (5.1). It boots and I can run some minimum samples, and the output can be seen normally in a HDMI screen. So, ...
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Key Combination to interrupt bootup and get a terminal?
Is there a way for me to interrupt the boot of the raspberry pi and go into the terminal straightaway?
Background:
I have installed a faulty LCD display driver, so I am connected to my HDMI display &...
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Creating an OS for the raspberry pi in rust, booting from it
I was following this tutorial on how to make your own basic OS for an x86_64 system in rust, but wanted to do it for an ARM64 target, specifically, the raspberry pi 4. I am at the point where I have ...
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Setting up Pi Zero W Wi-Fi through USB SSH
I am having lots of problems connecting my raspberry pi zero to wifi. I have followed a number of tutorials.
1. What I have tried
This was my wpa_supplicant.conf file
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/...
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TFT Kernel module not loading on startup
I'm not able to load a driver for a TFT display permanently on a Raspberry with Raspbian OS like specified here:
fbtft_device name=sainsmart18 verbose=0
in /etc/modules.
Whenever I restart the ...
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How does BerryBoot work?
Good evening,
BerryBoot allows us to put multiple OSes on the same SD card, and I know it uses SquashFS, but I don't understand how everything is done.
I'd like more explanation about how do SquashFS ...
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Keyboard doesn't work in initramfs
I've setup an encrypted root partition with Ubuntu 15.04 MATE (the latest image). I've fought with it for quite a while now, but I'm now certain that the initramfs has everything it needs in order to ...
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fsck crashes when booting from USB
I have set up my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to boot from a USB flash drive like in this article. Basically, I have burned the Raspbian image to a USB drive, then copied the boot partition to my SD card, ...
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Boot config.txt is ignored
Problem
The /boot/config.txt file is being ignored when the Raspberry Pi boots up. As such, overscan and overclocking settings are not taking effect.
What I've tried
Some reported that the line ...
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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 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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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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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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Sporadic slow booting due to fsck (mount count being reset)
I'm hoping to use a Raspberry Pi as the basis of an in-car infotainment system. I've followed a number of guides on reducing boot times, but the Pi will often take a long time to boot—about 20 s ...