PhotonOS 4.0 not booting on RPI4 8GB
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Description
Hi,
I was going to give a try the PhotonOS 4.0 on RPI4 8GB, but unfortunately, I couldn't boot it from the provided image. I followed the instruction on flashing the SD card (https://vmware.github.io/photon/docs/installation-guide/run-photon-on-raspberry-pi/installing-the-iso-image-for-photon-os-rpi/) both using Ether on Windows and dd on Linux. When I try to boot OS from SD card, I get the error "Unable to read partition as FAT".
While using the Ether (version 1.5.116), when I select the image, I receive a warning "It looks like this is not a bootable image. This image does not appear to contain a petition table, and might not be recognized or bootable by your device".
I also tried beta image rpi-4.0-d98e681.tar.xz, but the result was the same.
Regards,
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Research direction
Start with the Photon OS Raspberry Pi installation guide linked in the issue and reproduce the failure using the rpi-4.0-d98e681.tar.xz image or the provided PhotonOS 4.0 image. Compare the flashed image with the reported Raspberry Pi 4 8GB boot error and FAT partition warning; done means the image boots successfully from an SD card.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux, raspberry-pi
- Domain
- embedded-iot, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100