Raspberry Pi has launched a information to including customized working system photographs to its Imager 2.0 software program — whereas additionally publishing an replace for a bug that was inflicting storage erasure operations to fail on Linux and macOS methods.
“With the discharge of Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0, a variety of enhancements have been made to the consumer interface, the imaging course of, and inside configuration dealing with,” Raspberry Pi’s Paul Oberosler explains. “One of many extra fascinating modifications is the up to date JSON schema used to outline out there OS photographs. This replace is especially related to the introduction of cloud-init help in Raspberry Pi OS, together with a brand new cc_raspberry_pi module that permits configuration options like enabling SPI robotically.”
Trying to host your personal Raspberry Pi Imager repository, or submit a picture to the official repo? This new information will stroll you thru it. (📷: Raspberry Pi)
Raspberry Pi Imager is designed to obtain and flash, or simply flash in case you have native copies already, working system photographs onto storage units to be used with the Raspberry Pi household of single-board computer systems and Raspberry Pi Compute Module household of computers-on-modules. Its current 2.0 launch introduced with it a wealth of latest options and enhancements, but in addition modified how one can add your personal customized photographs to the menu — with Oberosler’s information designed to stroll you thru the way it’s now achieved, and how one can even submit photographs for inclusion within the official repository.
“In case you’re sustaining a high-quality picture and would really like it to seem alongside official photographs in Raspberry Pi Imager (below one of many neighborhood classes), you may submit it for evaluation,” Oberosler explains. “Our staff will evaluation your submission, confirm its compatibility, and get in contact if any changes are wanted. As soon as accredited, your picture might be distributed to 1000’s of Raspberry Pi Imager customers worldwide by way of our essential repository infrastructure.”
Raspberry Pi Imager itself, in the meantime, has obtained a quiet replace to model 2.0.2 — addressing a bug that was inflicting storage units to be “bricked” when an erasure operation was carried out, separate to a flash operation. “I’ve tracked down a probable trigger, the place the erase path would ask the OS for the dimensions of the system,” Raspberry Pi software program engineer Tom Dewey explains of the bug, which presents itself as storage units both disappearing from the {hardware} checklist altogether or showing with a tiny sub-gigabyte capability.
Linux and macOS customers ought to improve to Imager 2.0.2 with a view to keep away from storage system corruption. (📷: Raspberry Pi)
“On Home windows, there was a sturdy fall-back path, however on macOS and Linux the mechanism was much less sturdy, and will return an invalid system dimension — which might then be written to the MBR [Master Boot Record] of the cardboard. This would not have manifested on the extra typical download-and-flash path, because the error dealing with is extra concerned on that path.”
Oberosler’s full information is accessible on the Raspberry Pi weblog, whereas Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 with the corruption bug fastened is accessible on GitHub — however, on the time of writing, had not but changed the buggy 2.0.0 on the Raspberry Pi downloads web page.
