Hi! I have a Rpi 3b which will not boot up as a result of adding SSH to the boot menu.
With SSH in the boot menu, the boot process stalls at polkit.service and the starts the boot process all over again only to stall once more at polkit.service.
When I re-edit the /boot to remove SSH all is well again and it boots up properly.
The SD card is brand new, running 9.0.1.
Can someone explain where I’m going wrong.
Many thanks
You just have to add an empty ssh file to the image prior to the initial boot. So no .txt or other extensions when adding the file. Then boot up, the file would be gone after the initial boot.
Otherwise, burn the image with the raspberry pi imager software and enable SSH with that in the options section. That will have the same effect.
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Thanks, but this is exactly what I’ve been doing but the Rpi won’t boot. When I remove the ssh file from the /boot menu, it boots correctly. It is therefore the addition of the ssh (without.txt!) that is inhibiting booting up.
Does burning an image with Raspberry Pi Imager over-write piaware?
You can select the piaware image to be burnt by the Pi imager software.
You can select a raspberry pi image but also a custom (piaware) image to burn to the sd card. In the options you can enable ssh and set a personal user and password sif you wish
Thanks again for your reply. I cannot find how to burn both raspios and PiAware to my sd card. I cannot see “options” anywhere. One always seems to overwrite the other. Can you please explain how to do it?
it’s a screen that you can enable with Ctrl+Shift+X key.
Here a video on how to do that.
You don’t have 2 different OS’s next to each other.
You just burn the Flightaware image on the SD card using the Raspberry Pi imager.
So download the image, start the Pi imaging software and select the custom image option.
Point that to the FA/Piaware image file, set the options (hostname, password, SSH) to your liking ans start the burning process.
Then boot up the Pi to see if it works.
With the new RPi imager, the usage of the hidden keyboard code isn’t necessary any longer because it’s an option in the menu meanwhile