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Questions tagged [bootloader]

For questions pertaining to bootladers for the Raspberry Pi, their installation, configuration and troubleshooting.

A computer program that loads an operating system or some other software for the computer after completion of the self-tests.

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Why is grub incompatible with the raspberry pi?... Answer - It's not

I've read numerous times that the raspberry pi doesn't support grub. I've not been able to find any specifics about the incompatibility. I've only found rather blunt statements of the form "it's not supported". I would like to understand exactly…
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Raspberry pi 3 - why the FAT partition?

I am just getting started with a Raspberry pi 3, with wifi. I'm building with one of the Ubuntu images I downloaded. After I wrote the image to the SD card, I saw the first partition was FAT32. Why is this necessary? I've seen this same thing for…
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Is it safe to update EEPROM to latest using rpi-eeprom-update?

Ran following and bootloader version is now 000138c0. $ sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a Asking because sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade -y does not appear to upgrade bootloader. I am worried I upgraded to unstable bootloader… can one downgrade…
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How can I install the bootloader manually?

Rather than writing stock image to an SD card, sometimes I need to create another physical disk from my backups. My procedure is as follows: detect which device to format create appropriate partitions format these partitions with appropriate…
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Is there a power-safe way to upgrade the Linux kernel?

Is there a method of self-upgrading the Linux kernel on a Raspberry Pi which is safe against power outages and filesystem corruption. When running a Raspberry Pi remotely, it's important to be able to upgrade both the filesystem and kernel in a…
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Whats the name of the package for grub2

I need to run update-grub because I've compiled a new kernel but the update-grub command is not installed. What is the name of the package for the Raspberry Pi that provides this program.
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How to choose system to boot up without monitor?

I have Raspberry with Raspbian and RaspBMC (installed from NOOBS). I use Raspbian without monitor, keyboard and mouse at my workshop. SSH, apache and samba is all I need to interact with PI there. Sometimes I take my Pi to use it at home with…
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Did I busted my Pi 4? Failed to open device: 'sdcard' (cmd 371a0010 status 1fff0001)

I powered down my Pi 4 with the shutdown operation, waiting until the screen turned black, then waiting for the LEDs to stop blinking with only one red solid led, then unplugged the power source. I powered it back on and it started failing with…
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Boot Options not showing in raspi-config

I've been following this guide on Tom's Hardware to boot the RPi via USB SSD. However, when I enter raspi-config, 3 Boot Options does not show. What am I missing ? Raspberry Pi 4 Model B EEPROM version: VL805, Current: 000138a1, Latest:…
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Raspberry Pi 4 does not boot from USB. Only from SD Card

My Pi does not want to boot from a USB SSD that I connected through an ADATA rack. The rack does not have a power supply of its own, but to power the Pi I use an Macbook Pro Apple charger on which it is written that it can deliver 3.0A at 20.3V,…
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