I am a returning user on IPFire, I ran it off a USB stick on a regular laptop a while back. I’ve decided to install it on a Raspberry 3B+, and I have flashed my SD-card with Rufus using the Core Update 174 ISO.
The boot process on the RPi stops when the four IPFire “per core” icons appear, and I get a flashing cursor just beneath that. The RPi will eventually just reboot and repeat this.
I have seen that it needs the user to edit the filre uENV.txt file so that “SERIAL-CONSOLE= OFF”.
This file does not exist on the flashed SD-card, or if I mount the download ISO as a drive in my system.
The root directory of my SD card (and the ISO mounted as a drive) as it appears in Windows 10 is:
No problem Sorry I am late to reply, 87 days according to this website lol. I had some things come up IRL, but I figured out my problem today.
My old Hama Card reader/USB hub combo is extremely old (probably 2013/14-ish). I don’t know if it is because of modern SD card sizes or because it’s an ancient USB device that doesn’t work well on modern computers, but then I remembered I actually had a newer one.
Downloaded the newest ARM flash image, extracted it, flashed the resulting IMG file with BalenaEtcher and voila, the ~350MB partition with the uENV.txt came up immidiately after. Changed SERIAL-CONSOLE=ON to OFF, clicked save, and put it into my RPi 3b+.
Booted up immidiately into the install wizard !
Just wanted to post this here if anyone else is flabbergasted that they can’t get something as easy as it really is, to work.
Sorry I am late to reply, 87 days according to this website lol. I had some things come up IRL, but I figured out my problem today.