Raspberry Pi 4 boot of current Leap/KDE
I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working. I used this image (the link on https://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Raspberry_Pi4): http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.3/appliances/openSUSE-Leap... I'm not sure how to proceed. Are there any limits on the allowed size of the SIM card? Should a 32GB or 64GB card work? -- Roger Oberholtzer
Am Freitag, 26. November 2021, 10:10:56 CET schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working.
I'm using the KDE image without issues with a 32GB card What you can try: boot into runlevel 3 (hit 'e' on the boot screen, move down to the lie with the boot options and add 'init 3' (without the ' ') and hit F10) Log in and run startx If needed, kill the X-Server with CRTL-ALT-backspace and check /var/log/Xorg.o.log for error messages HTH Axel
(Note about post: I was doing something else at the same time I wrote the message. I meant to type SD card, not SIM card...) On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:46 AM Axel Braun <docb@opensuse.org> wrote:
Am Freitag, 26. November 2021, 10:10:56 CET schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working.
I'm using the KDE image without issues with a 32GB card What you can try: boot into runlevel 3 (hit 'e' on the boot screen, move down to the lie with the boot options and add 'init 3' (without the ' ') and hit F10) Log in and run startx If needed, kill the X-Server with CRTL-ALT-backspace and check /var/log/Xorg.o.log for error messages
HTH Axel
-- Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:46 AM Axel Braun <docb@opensuse.org> wrote:
Am Freitag, 26. November 2021, 10:10:56 CET schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working.
I'm using the KDE image without issues with a 32GB card What you can try: boot into runlevel 3 (hit 'e' on the boot screen, move down to the lie with the boot options and add 'init 3' (without the ' ') and hit F10) Log in and run startx If needed, kill the X-Server with CRTL-ALT-backspace and check /var/log/Xorg.o.log for error messages
I can of course try this. But I fear that the problem is happening before this. I never see any boot messages. Usually when the initial boot screen goes away (where you select the kernel), boot messages (systemd managed stuff) can be seen. Pressing ESC (which usually toggles this) has no effect. I just see the blinking cursor. At first I thought it was expanding the image to fill the disk (which is usually an early step when the image is booted for the first time). That is one reason I let it run for a while. But I would have thought that something might be printed before the disk is set up. Of course, I do not know if these images were created so they do this first boot step. -- Roger Oberholtzer
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> Sent: 26 November 2021 15:08 To: Axel Braun <docb@opensuse.org> Cc: arm@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi 4 boot of current Leap/KDE
On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:46 AM Axel Braun <docb@opensuse.org> wrote:
Am Freitag, 26. November 2021, 10:10:56 CET schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working.
I'm using the KDE image without issues with a 32GB card What you can try: boot into runlevel 3 (hit 'e' on the boot screen, move down to the lie with the boot options and add 'init 3' (without the ' ') and hit F10) Log in and run startx If needed, kill the X-Server with CRTL-ALT-backspace and check /var/log/Xorg.o.log for error messages
I can of course try this. But I fear that the problem is happening before this. I never see any boot messages. Usually when the initial boot screen goes away (where you select the kernel), boot messages (systemd managed stuff) can be seen. Pressing ESC (which usually toggles this) has no effect. I just see the blinking cursor.
At first I thought it was expanding the image to fill the disk (which is usually an early step when the image is booted for the first time). That is one reason I let it run for a while. But I would have thought that something might be printed before the disk is set up. Of course, I do not know if these images were created so they do this first boot step.
Maybe easier to check on the serial connection. Cheers, Guillaume
-- Roger Oberholtzer
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