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Questions tagged [boot]

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

Booting is the process of starting a computer. The phrase 'at boot' is often used to describe an action that occurs during the start up process. For the Raspberry Pi, that means loading the operating system from the SD card.

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What is the boot sequence?

I am wondering what the boot sequence of the Raspberry Pi is in a typical setup (say NOOBS), from power application (or warm reset if that's different) up to, say, the apparition of the logo; or where that is described. Beside a most needed general…
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Boot from external USB stick / drive?

I know it's not possible to directly boot from an external USB stick / drive, but instead you have to boot from the SD card and then the external device can take over. What's the easiest and preferred way to set this up, therefore boot from SD card…
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Remove boot messages (all text) in Jessie

I have a custom python app that I wanted to have started automatically on the RPi with the official touch screen. This used to work fine without a sleuth of boot messages appearing until the latest update in Jessie with the PIXEL desktop. My…
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What happens during the boot process?

What happens during the boot process after the Raspberry PI is turned on? I know that it differs from the standard Linux boot process ( no complex boot manager like Lilo/Grub ), I also know that the boot process has several steps, the device loads…
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Run bash script on startup

I know this question has been asked before, but I can't find a fix for my problem, I just can't get my script to run on startup. Here's my script: #!/bin/bash iptables -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -m…
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How to improve boot time for Raspberry Pi?

I'm creating an embeddable remote application that won't be permanently switched on. I've been playing around with different OS distributions and can reduce the time to boot substantially by using better SD cards with faster read speeds. I'm not…
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How do I improve Raspberry Pi Boot Up Time?

I am creating a home appliance which uses as Raspberry Pi internally to handle the user interface and necessary WiFi connection. Connected to the R-Pi I have an AdaFruit LCD screen: and a USB Wifi dongle: And also a keyboard. Nothing else. The…
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How can I lower my boot time more?

After removing most of the services that I don't need, it still takes about 28 seconds to boot, take a picture and shut down. I would like to lower this even more, and I did a systemd-analyze blame and got the following: 7.476s…
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How do I set up Pushover service to tell me when my Pi is shutting down or starting up?

I would like to setup my Raspberry Pi to tell me when it is up or down via the curl API of Pushover service. What are the steps to do this? This came up while I was reading this question.
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Hide Complete Boot Message from RPI booting

I am trying to remove boot messages from RPi and want to display a splash screen instead. I succeeded to show a splash screen and removed some boot messages, but it still shows some messages in the console. My cmdline.txt looks like this …
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Raspbian boot logo edit

I will say quickly. How do I edit or remove this logo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Iaz3NzJVU I found something but it does not work (errors) http://www.rasplay.org/?p=6371 Thanks! //edit 11:23PM OK. Solution remove logo: $ sudo su $ cd /boot $…
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Would systemd readahead be beneficial to a SD card?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Readahead systemctl enable systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service Could it boost the boot speed of the Raspberry Pi? Is the boot speed noticeable? Will it affect the SD card…
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Set number of rows and columns in boot up TTY

When the Pi boots up, I find the initial number of rows and columns it outputs too high - all the characters are a bit small and hard to read, especially things like '0' and 'O', 'l' and '1', etc. Is there a way to reduce the number of columns and…
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Error on Boot. 'No working init found.'

My Raspberry won't boot anymore. I had some problems, with mostly Mysql crashes in the past. But now it won't boot anymore. The error it gives on boot: Not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. See Linux…
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Raspberry Pi doesn't boot

My Raspberry Pi doesn't boot. I reisntalled Raspbian as I did the last time, when it worked correctly, and still it doesn't boot. I was working with the GPIO when the display turned off, and after that I can't boot anymore. Also, it's not a issue of…
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