For the past 2 weeks I have been trying to boot up my Pi 4. Did get it booted once early on into the PINN multiboot install, sudo shutdown all good. That was the one and only time it booted completely to final setup and shutdown. I have tried L/XUbuntu,Manjaro,Mint,Raspup,Debian name it if it could I have tried it, on sd card and usb. Today, I booted a 20 year old single core Sempron 2gb ram with a 120gb hdd into Raspbian from the same usb that the Pi will not boot. It was the installer, installed live to a 32gb sd card A1 and another 32gb usb 3.2. Shoved the card down the Pi's throat and stuffed the usb in it's PiHole! No joy, just looked 4 green followed by 5. Fatal firmware error??? Both card and usb will boot in the Presario but not the Pi. Someone tell me wtf is going on, I'm a hardware guy old and retired, still remember my joy at getting my first harddrive a Seagate 20MB, yep megabyte, I'm a dinosaur. I'm still learning and abandoning the MS ship, new to Linux but the interface has never mattered. I work with what I can get, the Presario is actually 2 Presario's this one is the newer I put the 2 together for 1 working. The older had Windows ME and a 8gb drive and a dead motherboard, the drive died during the salvage process. I want this Pi up and running tired of losing half my bandwidth to advertiers. I live out in the sticks on copper best I get is 12 Mbps. Need this PiHole to function!!! Help?
CodePudding user response：
The presario has x86 architecture in its CPU (Amd Sempron)... whilst the PI has a CPU with an ARM architecture... so the linux version on the SD Card should match the CPU architecture. Please download the correct version for the Raspberry PI and you will be good to go.
CodePudding user response：
Duh, I thought Basic 64k would run on it...The processor in my Presario is one of the 32bit processors advertised as being able to run 64bit sofware but when I looked at the caches it would appear mine isn't one of those more along the lines of this. I tried to get 10 Pro on it, wasn't happening https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/amd-sempron-3200-cpu-cant-install-windows-10-pro/31ecd743-bb00-4f83-a196-e6537e100fb9 Can't believe everything ya read. Each and every distro I tried was for the Pi or was said to be able to run on it 32 and 64bit. You mean this one, the latest version that my Pi said was out of date for the board? From, www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/#raspberry-pi-os-32-bit circ.2022-04-07? FYI every one of the Pi distro's along with quite a few other will run on the Sempron single core processor. Debian Buster and Bullseye 32bit will run on the Presario yet still the Pi will not boot anything to completion. I get to the update/reboot Press Shift for Recovery screen it goes black and no further empty Net_Install simply does not complete even left overnight several times.Empty Rpi-imager formatted sd card and usb remained untouched, 'empty' not blank. My Windows 10 Pro desktop with run most of the linux distros I've tried but my Windows 11 Pro laptop can't run any of the 32bit ones. MS castrated Windows. I have to do most of the formats and images in Linux, Windows simply makes it near impossible to get a iso/img of anything. Course, I could always buy that worthless software Edge sends me to buy to fix my problems. LOL Just cuz I'm old ya think I'm that stupid?? Downloaded and checksum-ed from the proper sources each and everyone. Wrong try again.