# Mender-convert: trouble booting raspbian

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-trouble-booting-raspbian/789>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** raspberry-pi-3, mender-convert\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-trouble-booting-raspbian/789 "2019-07-04T12:36:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-trouble-booting-raspbian/789/2 "2019-07-04T12:53:42Z")

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Hi @genedupre,

Welcome to Mender Hub!

The fact that you get 4 raspberrypis on you screen actually hints that it got past the bootloader and is booting the Linux kernel. So something must be going wrong during Linux kernel or user-space boot.

Can you please share which version of `mender-convert` you use, and what type of Raspberry Pi board you are trying to boot on.

The image you are trying to convert is a bit older as not part of our “tested images”, so there might be issues.

You can see which we have tested here,

> [@Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ Raspbian](https://hub.mender.io/t/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-b-raspbian/140):
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> Board description The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ is a popular single board computer based on Broadcom SoCs. It is the most powerful board within the Raspberry Pi family and probably the most popular with “makers”. [770A5842-462x322] URL: [https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus](https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus?target=_blank) URL: [https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b](https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b?target=_blank) Wiki: [https://elinux.org/RPi\_Hub](https://elinux.org/RPi_Hub?target=_blank)Test results The Raspberry Pi OS releases in the table below have been tested by the Mender c…

Can you try just using one of the tested images to verify the process.

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