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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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Boot Zero W from USB device

The older Raspberry Pi's (Pi 1, Pi 2 and Pi Zero) couldn't boot from a USB-device, but the Raspberry Pi 3 has support for it. The Pi and Pi 2 have semi-support for it (using an SD-card with a single bootfile). The Pi Zero W is a remake of their…
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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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Raspberry Pi 2 support PXE booting or network booting without an SD card

I would like to try to boot the Raspberry Pi 2 without the need of an SD card, anyone know how I may go about do this, if it is even possible?
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How do I setup a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to do a network install via TFTP?

I have a TFTP server, and I want to install any new Raspberry Pis on my network to use the TFTP server to install the OS. How do I got about doing this, I checked the Documentation on the official website and I can't find the documentation. Also how…
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Installing Linux on Raspberry pi 3 b+

I am currently going through tutorials explaining how to install linux kernel on the raspberry pi, most of the tutorial (an example) recommend the use of an SD card and to install the kernel on it. so I want to ask: Does the Raspberry contain a…
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Does Raspberrypi 4 support boot from GPT partitioned disk?

I'm interested if Raspberry pi 4 bootloader does support boot from GPT partitioned disk?
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RPi3 + buildroot + U-boot

What I want to do: I am working on a project where we want to update our RPi on boot. We are working with buildroot successfully for almost one year. Now I am trying to get it work with U-boot. What versions I am working with: RPi 3 buildroot…
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Booting a Raspberry Pi from an Encrypted SD Card

Is there a way to completely encrypt the SD card for the Raspberry Pi? Meaning that only with a password the SD card is accessible and bootable. I am looking for a solution similar to TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt that allow encrypting the complete boot…
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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 to boot from a different kernel based on RPI version?

Background: I successfully compiled kernel versions 5.4.y and 5.6.y from source. It turns out I have some keyboard related problems with v5.6.y on my RPI4, so I used v5.4.y and it works fine. However, I experience some problems with power…
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How does firmware find bootloader on SD card?

As far as I know the first stage bootloader tries to load bootcode.bin from SD card. How does it find it on SD card? Should it be placed in particular sectors or can initial bootloader work with partitions and look for it as a file?
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Why does Raspberry PI use GPU for loading bootloaders and configuration

There is a great explanation of the boot process - What is the boot sequence? But I can't understand why GPU is responsible for doing all that work. Could someone explain this decision? I can't find any explanation of that. I would be grateful for…
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Is network boot possible on Raspberry Pi?

I have several RPI and want them to have a common OS shared thanks to a hotpot generated from a central computer, hence my question: Is network boot possible on Rasperry PI?
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Booting with Grub on U-Boot

I have some specific needs for a bootloader for the Raspberry Pi. I am using a Model 2 B. So the short version is I will have devices scattered throughout the country for various purposes, and these devices need to be high availability. I also need…
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