Comments on: Raspberry PI OS Lite: Headless Install, Setup and Configure https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/ Raspberry PI, Arduino and Electronics made simple Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: peppe8o https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-26660 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 07:00:33 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-26660 In reply to Langleyhooer.

Hi Langleyhooer,
thank you for your feedback. As additional notes, from my experience I had better chances to get the image working by cancelling the whole SD card from the Raspberry PI Imager before writing the new one.
Moreover, I should admit that the newest Raspberry PI Imager versions have less errors in providing a working image (the firstrun.sh file is correctly completed before closing the card).

Many thanks again

]]> By: Langleyhooer https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-26600 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:06:03 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-26600 “IMPORTANT NOTE: with my Windows 11 I had a lot of issues getting these advanced options working for the first boot in headless mode….
“The fix that worked for me was disabling the “Eject media when finished” option from advanced settings and, after writing the card, checking that the new “bootfs” partition, visible from your Windows PC, includes the “firstrun.sh” file into the root folder.
Otherwise, please wait for it to appear before ejecting the card at the end of the flashing operations!”
This suggests that your stupid Windows 11 software stack is lying to you about write operations being complete. Which is THE most basic function of an OS. See where the problem is? Using Windows, sold by liars, used by liars (“hey, privacy doesn’t matter” is a lie people tell themselves, due to conditioning and brainwashing, so they tolerate spyware like Android, Facebook, Windows et al).
Check Write Caching settings for your drive(s), however that slows-down performance.
That said, when you first use a newly-purchased flash media (sd card, USB flash drive, or even ssd or external HDD) here is a tip to prove integrity as a basic baseline for any future troubleshooting:

Use f3 in Linux (I think a Windows version exists). Fight Flash Fraud is what it stands for.
It is a simple utility that writes to the whole disk, filling it to capacity. It then reads back the files and checksums them to prove their integrity.
Whilst you wait. It also gives you an idea of the speed of your card under true load. Better to know up-front, rather than lose half your holiday photos as happened to a family member!
In Linux, you can run the ‘sync’ command to flush the file system cache to disk. That way you know the write has finished.
If Windows 11 is really that pathetic at performing properly, I would be running some utility to monitor filesystem I/O. iotop is useful on Linux, which tells you what processes are doing disk I/O and at what rate. Useful for diagnosing disk transfer issues in a basic way from the command line.
But this fake progress bar crap is what Microsoft are notorious for.
Only because idiots keep feeding that beast, does the beast not learn to behave.

]]> By: peppe8o https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-19171 Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:16:06 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-19171 In reply to Eoin.

Hi Eoin,
I’ve never experiences this issue, but found that some users in the Web get your same problem. For example, there’s a GitHub issue here:https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/4458, but it was closed without a solving answer. The only interesting thing here is that the user wrote that flashing the image without Advanced settings allows to avoid the error. Another post pointing to the same workaround is the following, even if related to flashing an ubuntu image: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/issues/213.
The only suggestion I can give you is trying to run the RPI imager with admin permission (sudo) or changing the rpi imager version

]]> By: Eoin https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-19158 Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:31:07 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-19158 Thanks for your help. I was running into the following issue when trying to flash either 32-bit or 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Lite using Raspberry Pi Imager: “[FAILED] Failed to start Command from Kernel Command Line”. Flashing with Balena Etcher instead and configuring WiFi and SSH using your methods stated above worked perfectly for me.

]]> By: peppe8o https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-13678 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:41:13 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-13678 In reply to Jeremy.

Hi Jeremy. With latest RPI OS releases, you are forced to set the user and password (the default pi user is no more available). Try flashing with RPI Imager and setting the user/pwd before writing the image or try connecting the RPI with a monitor to check if it is asking to set the user for first boot

]]> By: Jeremy https://peppe8o.com/install-raspberry-pi-os-lite-in-your-raspberry-pi/#comment-13669 Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:02:33 +0000 https://peppe8o.com/?p=2062#comment-13669 Same as all the articles I can find on Raspberry Pi OS Lite. Unfortunately for me while I can get the SSH prompt to come up it does not like these credentials. Not sure why. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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