#RASPBERRY PI CREATE BOOT PARTITION HOW TO#
#RASPBERRY PI CREATE BOOT PARTITION INSTALL#

So after achieving this, my upgrade to 16.10 lost me access to the Pi 3’s internal wifi and bluetooth! Disaster. I’ve used this method twice successfully in the last two days. The above command probably nests a sdb1 directory within a sdb1 directory but that’s easily solved! NB both the ‘delete’ and ‘create’ tasks above only enqueue the task in GParted you have to hit the green tick for the task to be carried out.įinally, copy the files back to the new, bigger /boot partition: sudo cp -r ~/Desktop/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1ĭouble check everything looks as it should. Mount the new partition (mine mounted to /mnt/sdb1).fat16) and importantly a bigger size (I opted for 1024 Mb) Create a new partition with the same file system as previous (e.g.Unmount both the /boot and /root partitions.Copy the contents of the /boot partition to somewhere safe,.

dev/sdb1) and file format (fat16 in my case) using GParted

Locate the microSD and note the boot partition’s location (e.g.

Insert the microSD+adapter into the other computer.

A terminal emulator (not required per se).

Pretty well documented out there!) I found a useful Adafruit article. So enter Google and, after some false steps (increasing /root rather than /boot is Initially duckduckgo but I didn’t have any luck Helpfully, it suggested emptying the trash (already empty) and running sudo apt cleanīut unfortunately no space was recovered. Having downloaded the necessary files, the GUI then calculated the upgrade andĭeclared my boot partition to be too small by around 2 measly megabytes! Shortly after! HITCH-Y McHITCHFACE: THE REVENGE What I wanted to do) but I decided just to do 16.10 now, hopefully doing 17.04 Now, I’m not sure if you can just go from 16.04 to 17.04 (which is I then ran the GUI Software Update and, lo! The dialogue offered me to upgrade Reading the Mate website or a (probably too brief) online search. I um-ed and ah-ed a little and found no useful information by Terminal for some sudo apt update & sudo apt dist-upgrade I should just stick toįollowing some instructions on the 1, I enabled notificationsįor all distro upgrades in the Software & Updates GUI. Not-good-enough reason, I decided to upgrade from 16.04. I run Ubuntu Mate on a Raspberry Pi and enjoy it very much! For a frankly

#RASPBERRY PI CREATE BOOT PARTITION INSTALL#

Boot and follow the wizard to install several systems on the same SD card. Format an SD card and create a new partition (1 GB). Pre-amble! Dive back in at the ‘Adafruit’ header. Here are the required steps to use dual boot on a Raspberry Pi: Download PINN from Sourceforge.

#RASPBERRY PI CREATE BOOT PARTITION HOW TO#

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Raspberry pi create boot partition