Saturday, August 31, 2024

Gzipped images don't boot if copied with dd


gzip -dc ~/backup.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sda bs=4M status=progress

This unzips it and pipes that into dd before copying. dd handles raw data otherwise it won't boot. I thought it was because I didn't do these other 2 steps


sudo sync

sudo umount /dev/sda

ugh I ended up just booting into mint to use raspberry pi imager, I was still struggling. Turns out I needed to open it sudo

No comments:

Post a Comment