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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
It would be nice if we could make the Pi boot a read only image, to a RAMDISK, and make sure that the Pi doesn't get corrupted on brownout. That way, just like the cRIO, just turn it off by flipping the switch!

That is doable! And from other online users reports it would boot and run in 5 seconds or so using an initrd-style ramdisk.
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