On 04/01/2013 03:54, Mark Campbell wrote:
Hey guys, I have to say I am really appreciative of this project--I've
always been a hardcore RH guy, and when I finally got my pi, the very
first thing I did was to find out if there was a RH-based pi distro out
there. Found that I could do Fedora, but like you, I did not want to
run bleeding edge, I wanted a stable distro, as I plan to make this pi
into something that needs to stay stable for months/years at a time.
When I first followed the directions on the site to install to an SD
card, which were quite straight forward (I love dd!), I put it in my
r-pi, and it would not post--no blinking lights indicating activity,
nothing. So I backtracked, and did it with the raspian distro so that I
could actually get a feel for a working r-pi, and it booted fine. So, I
tried again, and the image failed to boot. Grr. So I decided to follow
the steps to migrate from raspian to rsel. Works. Awesome. However,
my plans require making this image to several other r-pis (when I get
them), so I used dd to make a complete image of the working sd card, and
when I tested putting it back onto a card, that image fails too! Any
ideas guys? It would sure be nice to not have to follow the steps of
converting a raspian to rsel each time.
Hi Mark,
Apologies, I hadn't noticed your email earlier.
I don't have a Pi myself so I am not particularly familiar with it. The
wiki entry seems reasonably complete
(http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/Install_Rasperry_Pi) and there's a
link to an external article, too. I know somebody tried using the Fedora
ARM installer (little more than a think GUI for dd) and that worked, too.
Could it be a difference in the way you partition your SD card or the
file system you use for /boot? If it is using uboot, the chances are
that it only knows how to read the kernel from FAT or ext2 (SheevaPlug,
for example, doesn't understand ext3/ext4, IIRC). Then again if you
dd-ed the image straight onto the card (as opposed to a partition of on
the card), that shouldn't be an issue. It's an odd problem, I'm not sure
what to suggest based on the information provided.
Gordan
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