Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B

Hello John,

There is a specific image for Raspberry Pi
https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/forky/daily/latest/debian-14-raspi-arm64-daily.tar.xz
You just flash it to ssd/sd-card/.. then boot from it.

Regards,
Sally

On Tue, 2026-05-05 at 12:50 -0400, John Boxall wrote:
> 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?