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Does anyone have an idea why my Raspberry Pi 1 (2011) won't boot with a specific SD card?

I did a full writing/reading test by md5summing the reading result with the test data and it seems perfectly fine.

I had Raspbian installed on that SD card before and it booted, but now it won't boot anymore, no matter how many times I flash it. Other SD cards work fine.

Could it be a partition issue?

It may also just be a marginal card - perhaps one of the fingers is missing a contact spot in just the place the Pi needs to see it.

I don't know if the Pi can boot from a USB flash reader, but you could try that.

Do the package transitions make more waste (due to co2 emissions at least) than actually recycling e-waste instead of sending them back and forth? Just wandering.
Amazing stuff.

I really wish old phones would have unlockable bootloaders and upstream hardware support.

Millions of devices which could be reused consigned to the dustbin.

Apple has a page with pictures of lush green forests and deep blue oceans, so what you're saying can't possibly be true. They would never create mountains of e-waste, because their products are impossible to repair.

https://www.apple.com/environment/