Moving /boot to smaller SD card - Raspberry Pi Forums

hello debian gurus...

installed raspbian on 32gb sd card, moved whole os usb stick. pi uses /boot sd card boot up. there way move /boot smaller (250mb) sd card, mean how can make bootable sd /boot?

lot,
riki

you should able use dd copy /boot partition on /dev/mmcblk0p1 sdcard (or *.img file). or can mount new sdcard , use rsync. or can mount new sdcard , use cp -r. [pick poison.]

if you're not using direct dd copy of first 122880 sectors you'll need create new partition on new sdcard in usb sdcard reader with

fdisk /dev/sda
command (m help): n
partition type
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended (container logical partitions)
select (default p): p
partition number (1,3,4, default 1): 1
first sector (2048-15407103, default 2048): 8192
last sector, +sectors or +size{k,m,g,t,p} (8192-122879, default nnnnnnnn): 122879

created new partition 1 of type 'linux' , of size 56 mib.

command (m help): w

mkfs.fat /dev/sda1
once filesystem made you're ready copy.

dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/sda1

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
rsync -a /boot/ /mnt
umount /mnt

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cp -r /boot/* /mnt
umount /mnt


copy on windows if can mount 2 sdcards simultaneously.


not work noobs without lots of messing about, if you've moved rootfs you're not using noobs anyway.

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