Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B

From	Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.ports.arm
Subject	Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B
Date	2026-05-06 15:40 +0200
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The following guide, on how to install *vanilla* Debian to the Raspberry 
Pi 4B hopefully still applies:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=282839

Regards,

/Pete

On 2026.05.05 17:50, 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?

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Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 19:00 +0200
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