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Recommend Raspberry Pi Imager over Balena Etcher#1858

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Recommend Raspberry Pi Imager over Balena Etcher#1858
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@Gold856 Gold856 commented Apr 6, 2025

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Balena Etcher has historically had issues like bootlooping. Recommend Raspberry Pi Imager instead and warn about using Balena Etcher.
Closes #1856.

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  • Pull Request title is short, imperative summary of proposed changes
  • The description documents the what and why
  • If this PR changes behavior or adds a feature, user documentation is updated
  • If this PR touches photon-serde, all messages have been regenerated and hashes have not changed unexpectedly
  • If this PR touches configuration, this is backwards compatible with settings back to v2024.3.1
  • If this PR addresses a bug, a regression test for it is added

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LGTM

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im good w making this first class

@mcm001 mcm001 merged commit 1798b67 into PhotonVision:main Apr 8, 2025
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@Gold856 Gold856 deleted the recommend-rpi-imager branch April 9, 2025 17:35
@Gold856 Gold856 added the documentation Anything relating to https://docs.photonvision.org label Jul 12, 2025
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Recommend rpi flasher over balena

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