Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Tue, 5 May 2026 20:04:59 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello John,

read please the threat in the debian-cloud forum from /Date/: Fri, 6 Mar 
2026  "Debian images for Raspberry 4 and 5 from 
https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud do not boot on RPi".
I think, it's the same problem.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2026/03/msg00000.html
Also you can read the Debian Bug report  #1102607.

If you find a solution, please post it here in the forum as well; I, for 
one, would still be interested in it.

Heiko

Am 05.05.26 um 18:50 schrieb John Boxall:
> As a newbie to Debian on the Raspberry Pi, I tried booting the latest 
> Debian arm64 netinst ISO without success. I used "dd" to copy the ISO 
> image to a USB stick (nothing else on the stick), but when I tried to 
> boot I get an error that the 2K block size is not supported by the RPi 
> boot firmware and the boot fails.
>
> Booting by USB is one of the available boot options.
>
> Is there more preparation that needs to be done to the USB stick?