Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Some fairly radical changes to the way Ubuntu boots on the Raspberry Pi
D0!
A look at how new hardware and lengthy dependency chains combine to make trouble!
Loading the Deck
A cautionary tale of SD cards and online reviews
How Noble in reason
A look at the trials and tribulations of the current LTS release, Noble Numbat (24.04 LTS)
I ain’t got NBD
The final part of the NBD netboot series, where we solve our issues with the coherence of the boot partition
NBD Does it Better
An alternative means of net-booting a Pi, using NBD instead of NFS to permit block-layer manipulation (docker overlays, snaps, etc.)
NBD Knows
The problems with NFS as a netboot system, and what the alternatives are
Building Blocks
In which we finally cover what a block device is
Making Mantic Magic
Everything you (don’t) need to do on Mantic to get the most out of the Pi 5
Dealing the (SD) Cards
A brief guide to finding reliable SD cards for the Pi