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restored to a raspberry pi image, won't boot.

Asked by Steve Jacobson

I copied a raspberry pi bootable sd card to a disk image. I went to restore that image on THE SAME CARD, and it wouldn't boot. I made modifications to the Unbuntu image, so I wanted to wipe those changes and start all over. The first time I restored to the same sd card, that card booted correctly. When I restored the image again, the card wouldn't boot.

Is there some setting to prevent this from happening?

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Tobin Davis (gruemaster) said : 		#1

The problem is that when you changed the image, you change the structure of the image. If you save, format the sd, and restore the saved image without changing it, it will work properly.

There's a way to mount the partitions inside the image so that it will still boot, but I have long forgotten how to do that. Google should help there.

I'm sorry for not working on this project in years, but my job had me working far too much, and I have mostly forgotten what I need to setup a development environment for this.

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Steve Jacobson (srjacob) said : 		#2

I didn't change the image (at least I didn't intend to). I save the image from my working SD card, formatted a new card, and wrote the same image. When I put the new SD card in the Pi, it hung up on the boot.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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