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    i need help w pi imager and ssh, headless, oops, user error

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      sdetweil @karsten13
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      @karsten13 I get imager 1.8.5 on mac, ubuntu, and windows, clicking the link on the images page for the tool

      same userid/password I always use for sbc systems to test…
      same wifi and password too…

      there is junk in the files… nothing I can understand…

      I am not a system setup guy.
      mac cannot access the rootfs partition, only the bootfs
      can’t get the sd card attached to the ubuntu VM… gr…

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        sdetweil @sdetweil
        last edited by sdetweil

        @karsten13 I can get to the partitions from my chromebook…

        there is no user-data, there is a script firstrun.sh which is linked to the cmdline.txt

        systemd.run=/boot/firstrun.sh systemd.run_success_action=reboot
        

        but it has not created the user I defined… only pi is in /home

        so my guess is the firstrun.sh didn’t
        and it never reboots

        on the sd card, firstrun.sh and cmdline.txt are the only two changed files,
        yesterday at noon, which is when the last flash finished

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          karsten13 @sdetweil
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          @sdetweil

          files should be in same directory as config.txt and cmdline.txt. Maybe the OS deletes them after initial reading? So you may have to look for this files before you insert the sd-card into the pi …

          example of user-data:

          [mm@pi4-argon efi]$ cat user-data
          #cloud-config
          hostname: pi4-argon
          manage_etc_hosts: true
          packages:
          - avahi-daemon
          apt:
            conf: |
              Acquire {
                Check-Date "false";
              };
          
          users:
          - name: mm
            groups: users,adm,dialout,audio,netdev,video,plugdev,cdrom,games,input,gpio,spi,i2c,render,sudo
            shell: /bin/bash
            lock_passwd: false
            passwd: $5$wEw...
            ssh_authorized_keys:
              - ssh-rsa AAAA...
            sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
          
          
          timezone: Europe/Berlin
          keyboard:
            model: pc105
            layout: "de"
          

          example of network-.con:

          [mm@pi4-argon efi]$ cat network-.con
          version: 2
          wifis:
            renderer: networkd
            wlan0:
              dhcp4: true
              optional: true
              access-points:
                "k13":
                  password: "cbd..."
          
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            sdetweil @karsten13
            last edited by sdetweil

            @karsten13 nope, right after flash, those files are not there.
            the firstrun and cmdline.txt have todays date, I am showing hidden files (if any)

            IMG_0894.jpeg

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              sdetweil @sdetweil
              last edited by sdetweil

              well then…

              turns out the pi5 I picked to bring with me has the nvme hat on, and boots to the nvme drive, NOT the sd card…doah!!..

              after some thinking, I found the right user/pw combo…

              never mind…

              BUT that explains why the sd card wasn’t used!!

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                karsten13 @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil

                and I learned more about pi imager, the stuff it writes seems to depend on the OS, with my examples above I used fedora, now looking at a raspian pi os lite I don’t see the files.

                There now is a userconf.txt with only user/password …

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                  sdetweil @karsten13
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                  @karsten13 I don’t see that at all on bookworm full

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                    rkorell @sdetweil
                    last edited by rkorell

                    @sdetweil said

                    I am not a system setup guy.

                    Dear Sam,
                    you may aware of this - than please ignore it…

                    You’ve described that you have put a SD card in your NVME-HAT’ed Pi and your Pi has not booted from SD but from NVME…

                    You can steer this with the BOOT_ORDER entry in eeprom configuration.
                    This code is read right to left to determine the boot order and should (in your case) be: 0xf461:

                    1 = Check SD card
                    6 = Check PCIe NVME
                    4 = Check USB drive
                    f = Start again

                    You can check this:

                    sudo rpi-eeprom-config
                    

                    If boot order is not as desired you can edit this with

                    sudo -E rpi-eeprom-config --edit
                    
                    enter or modify to:
                    BOOT_ORDER=0xf461
                    
                    

                    (In my configuration this opens the nano editor in which ctrl-O writes the changes to disk and ctrl-X leaves the editor.
                    eeprom-config then modifies the system and a reboot is neccessary)

                    With this configuration you will lose a tiny bit of time for the SD-card check but it enables you to insert a SD card and boot from there despite the NVME is connected as well.

                    Regards,
                    Ralf

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                      sdetweil @rkorell
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                      @rkorell thanks. i had clearly set the boot order wrong.

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                        rkorell @sdetweil
                        last edited by rkorell

                        @sdetweil This is a single error :-)
                        try to count mine - you will win ! :-)

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