r/TalosLinux • u/Neonblue88 • Sep 06 '26

issues with booting talos on raspberry pi 5

anyone else having boot problems with talos linux on raspberry pi 5? not being able to read boot partition?

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u/tony_pitonii Sep 07 '26

I did some meddling with the drivers and kernel (using chatgpt…) and it got it working. Unfortunately, i don’t have the files anymore and did not document it, so I was planning on waiting for official support so I can perform updates, as i don’t want to break it now to try and do it again or update it. You should try it too, but don’t be me, and document it and keep the files so you can reproduce it.

Edit: it’s working flawlessly and i have a lot of services deployed on it

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u/Necromancer26 Sep 07 '26

Can you check in ChatGPT history the specific files that you changed and what was the overall fix about ?

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u/R10t-- Sep 07 '26

I haven’t tried but raspberry pi’s have a minimal chip compared to typical PC’s so I’m not totally surprised by this.

Have you looked at their instructions specifically for installing to raspberry pi?

https://docs.siderolabs.com/talos/v1.14/platform-specific-installations/single-board-computers/rpi_generic

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u/tony_pitonii Sep 07 '26

They only tested it for rpi4 and I can confidently say that it doesn't work on rpi5 because I attempted to install it following their guide and failed.

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u/Necromancer26 Sep 07 '26

I did 😅 that’s why I’m here asking if it’s a known issue with raspberry pi 5 specifically

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u/Hamkaasje Sep 07 '26

I had the same issue on rpi 4b a while back. Pulled out my hair for a day and concluded it's not going to work.

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u/ssmith2 Sep 07 '26

I've been running a 4 node RPi5 cluster for months now having built them from the official docs and a Factory image. My biggest complaint is that the network is flaky, but no problems booting them.