Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B

From	"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.ports.arm
Subject	Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B
Date	2026-05-06 00:30 +0200
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On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 06:11:53PM -0400, John Boxall wrote:
> On 2026-05-05 14:04, h.weiss5@gmx.de wrote:
> 
> Thanks Heiko. Not sure I'll be able to find a fix, but I will let you know
> if I do.
> 
> Sally, I've used those images before, however, this time I was hoping to
> simply use the ISO on a USB stick to perform the install, like all of the
> amd64 installs I've done. Oh well.
> 

It's a Raspberry Pi and so has its own way of booting. One of the 
interesting things to do is to install the UEFI for Pi 4 built by
Pete Batard. That *will* allow you to "just install" using an iso
file but it does have its own quirks.

Unfortunately, the Pi 5 is less well supported in this respect
because they changed the hardware part way through.

It would be nice if the Pi 6 just ran vanilla Debian - but some
of us have said that since the Pi 2 :(

All the very best, as ever,

Andy
(amacater@debian.org)

> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> John Boxall
>

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Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2026-05-05 19:00 +0200
  Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B "Sally A.haj" <s.ahaj@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-05 20:10 +0200
  Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B John Boxall <jboxall47@gmail.com> - 2026-05-06 00:20 +0200
    Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2026-05-06 00:30 +0200
  Re: Booting Debian arm64 ISO on Pi 4B Pete Batard <pete@akeo.ie> - 2026-05-06 15:40 +0200

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