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documentation/asciidoc/computers/raspberry-pi/eeprom-bootloader.adoc

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[[PARTITION_WALK]]
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==== `PARTITION_WALK`
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This property is designed to improve the reliability of `A/B` boot schemes using `autoboot.txt` by searching for boot-able partitions if the specified partition does not appear to be bootable. If `PARTITION_WALK=1` and the selected partition is not bootable and does not have a valid `autoboot.txt` then the bootloader will check each partition in turn (up to 8 and wrapping to 0) to see if it is bootable (contains `start.elf` or `config.txt` and a suitable device-tree on Pi5 or newer).
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During the "partition walk" `autoboot.txt` files are not processed to avoid cycling dependencies. It is assumed that the requested boot partition has failed and the system is attempting recovery.
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[[PSU_MAX_CURRENT]]
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==== `PSU_MAX_CURRENT`
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