# 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 8, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-trouble-booting-raspbian/789/3 "2019-07-08T16:09:36Z")

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Hello @mirzak, thank you for your answer!  
i use the raspberry 3 model B,  
as for the the mender-convert version, it seem to give an error asking for it, most been something wrong here

 ![mender_version-error](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mender/original/1X/66f20aa0fec06573c9347a04314dfab21e49b3b4.png)  
but it was the latest pull for the git repo on as from 5-07-19 which is probably still version 1.1.x

This time i followed the [raspberry-pi-3-model-b-raspbian](https://hub.mender.io/t/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-b-raspbian/140) guide, and tried to get a bare-raspbian\_buster\_lite-client running, but this also was no success for me.

after downloading the fresh .img & schrinking it with raw-disk-image-schrink  
i used the mender-converter with these options

> ```
> DEVICE_TYPE="raspberrypi3"
> ARTIFACT_NAME="2019-07-08-raspbian-buster"
> RAW_DISK_IMAGE="input/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.img"
> ARTIFACT_NAME="2019-07-08-raspbian-buster-lite"
> MENDER_DISK_IMAGE="8-7-19_rapbian-buster-lite.sdimg"
> IP="192.168.30.11"
> 
> ```

and

> ./docker-mender-convert from-raw-disk-image --raw-disk-image $RAW\_DISK\_IMAGE --storage-total-size-mb 3040 --mender-disk-image $MENDER\_DISK\_IMAGE --device-type $DEVICE\_TYPE --artifact-name $ARTIFACT\_NAME --bootloader-toolchain arm-buildroot-linux-gnueabihf --demo --demo-host-ip $IP

i"ve put a --storage-total-size-mb 3040 (minimum required according to the mender-converter) because the default 8000mb did not fit on the 8gb sd card that came with it! (its 7.4gb when partitioned)

after putting the .sdimg with an dd as described in [provisioning-a-new-device](https://docs.mender.io/2.0/artifacts/provisioning-a-new-device)

This time, the pi booted up, showed the colorful screen, then the 4 raspberrys for like 0.5 second went black for a while, then rebooted again the the colorful screen and 0.5sec and then nothing.

so probably it found the boot, went into kernel and got stuck

the log can be found here [build.log](https://pastebin.com/2GsDDmKZ)

thanks in advance! & i enjoy reading in the community

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