Raspberry Pi2 problems

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1

Hi

I can create the imge on an SD card.

Installing the openSUSE Tumbleweed Image

  1. Download the latest image at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2/images/
  2. JeOS image for a minimal system openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi-*.raw.xz
  3. As root
    extract the image onto your SD-Card (replace sdX with the device name of your SD-Card). WARNING: all previous data on the SD-Card will be lost.

xzcat [image].raw.xz | dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdX; sync

It gives me a login cursor.

I can reboot and get a failure (listing below), or zypper in yast2 and lxde and xorg etc etc and still get the same failure.

Tried a few workarounds, and am completely stumped.

The temptation is to give up and stay with noobs, but since I have opensuse on the B+ I would like to have the armv7 work as well.

So can anyone suggest any steps to resolve the problems

Like the missing linux.vmx, can it be created or dummied up?

The bad partition seems strange as I have the 4 partitions. …

First start / Login

The SD card is formatted with GPT (GUID Partition Table). After the first start with this SD card, the card will be repartitioned by the image to have 4 partitions:

  1. a small FAT partition
  2. a small EXT3 partition
  3. a large EXT4 partition (takes whatever the other 3 leave behind)
  4. a SWAP partition.

Finally I have installed yast2 firstboot, but it seems to have no effect.

NB: I have used SuSE from version 6.0 upto Tumbleweed 13.2 so I have really tried.

Net: Net Initialization Skipped
**No ethernet found **

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device

Scanning mmc 0:1…
Found U-boot script /boot.scr
113 bytes read in 15ms (6.8 kb/s)

##Executing script at 00000000
2718 bytes read in 45ms (58.6kb/s)

**##Executing script at 00000200 **
Switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device

##File not found boot/linux.vmx##
Script Failed: Continuing…

##Bad partition specification mmc 0:0:2##
##Bad partition specification mmc 0:0:2##
##Bad partition specification mmc 0:0:2##

##Error “bootcmd_firstboot” not defined##
##Error “bootcmd_firstboot” not defined##
##Error “bootcmd_firstboot” not defined##

U-Boot>

2

Hi
Wrong forum for tumbleweed issues, will move to correct place :wink:

3

Hi
Moved and re-opened.

4

Hi.

I got the same problem.

I used openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build309.3.raw.xz from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2/images/ and tried the workaround introduced in this thread:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm/2015-04/msg00016.html
but it didn’t work.

5

Hi,

I have a openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build311.1 on a 8 GB Sandisk Extreme installed and running. The reboot works, but takes appr. 5:30 mins until login. According to the console log I only reach a throughput of 72.3 KB/s.

Why is booting so slow, when wheezy only takes seconds to get going?

Do you experience the same bad Performance?

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Sorry, it’s only an Ultra, not an Extreme

7

Hi

I am not getting anywhere near a good reboot, sadly.

Remember

it’s not the speed of the Read
But the rightness of the Write

8

Well, I know the difference now: The image openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build311.1.raw.xz, but openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build313.2.raw.xz seems to end up in a reboot loop, openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-XFCE-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build315.1.raw.xz ain’t any better.

Hey development team, you managed to create a port für IBM zSeries, a Little Raspberry Pi 2 can’t be much harder :slight_smile: You have our full confidence that it’ll be alright on the night (hopefully soon).

9

Hiya

I am looking at snappy ubuntu version, which works, and trying to track how it does the scripted reboot route.

####################################################
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/#snappy-raspi2Getting started with a Raspberry Pi 2 The Raspberry Pi 2 is not officially supported by Snappy yet. However, for convenience, one of our developers has made these instructions available.
On this page, you will find pre-built bits to bootstrap your Raspberry Pi 2 with a Snappy image.

Download the unofficial Raspberry Pi 2 image:

You can download and install a pre-built snappy Ubuntu Core image for your Raspberry Pi 2 and copy it to an SD card ready to boot as follows:

Note: replace /dev/sdX with the device name of your SD card (e.g. /dev/mmcblk0, /dev/sdg1 …)

wget http://people.canonical.com/~platform/snappy/raspberrypi2/ubuntu-15.04-snappy-armhf-rpi2.img.xz
unxz -c ubuntu-15.04-snappy-armhf-rpi2.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=32M
sync
######################

The above works. Also the way that Paolo Pisati achieves his build and boot.

So I am reading thru the scripts and hoping to modify the opensuse tumbleweed ones to get an initial install and reboot.

10

Hi

Bit of an update…

I have changed to using BerryBoot and looking at adding my own image file.

http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/adding_custom_distributions

I managed to create a squashfs image, but it reports an error with the kernel, so I got something wrong somewhere.

Bur maybe a few more tries at creating an image better than my osav7rpi2.sqsh at 594MB will get me somewhere.

If anyone else could try and offer any pointers I would appeciate it.

11

Hi

Downloaded and installed

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/RaspberryPi2/images/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JeOS-raspberrypi2.armv7l-1.12.1-Build317.11.raw.xz

logged in as root, pwd linux
then did zypper dup
reboot

rebooted

and then added a few more bits.

shutdown

pulled the power and re-applied power and I got a boot sequence.

So THANK YOU to whoever did the original work.