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The Linux Operating System

Where is a Raspberry Pi’s operating system stored?

  • A On the master device attached to the Raspberry Pi's IDE bus.
  • B On a read only partition on the Raspberry Pi's firmware, next to the BIOS.
  • C On a removable SD card which is put into the Raspberry Pi.
  • D On a Linux extension module connected to the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins.
  • E On rewritable flash storage which is built into the Raspberry Pi.
Explanation

Raspberry Pi OS is normally installed as an OS image on removable SD-card boot media, which is inserted into the Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi documentation identifies a microSD card as the most common boot medium and states that devices check an inserted SD card for an operating system by default.

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