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AI-generatedBoot partition not found: capturing early-boot diagnostics without serial console
When a Raspberry Pi fails to mount the boot partition during SD-card boot, the kernel never starts and no logs are written to the filesystem. The bootloader emits diagnostic messages only on the serial console (ttyAMA0 or ttyS0), which requires a USB-to-serial adapter and an active capture session at power-on. Without that hardware, the only visible symptom