I used ipfire on virtual machines many times so I know it quite well. Now, to built a wifi router for home, I’m trying to install it on a Raspberry Pi Model 3B (not +). I followed this guide:
and downloaded the latest Arm image and burned it to a microSD using BalenaEtcher. The Raspberry show a coloured pattern on screen and nothing happens. As far as I know this should indicate that it was not able to load the kernel.
For your info: I loaded in the same sdcard another image and everything works fine.
Somebody can help me? Thanks
I grabbed a Raspberry Pi Model 3B (without the +) and the current ARM image from https://www.ipfire.org/download/ipfire-2.25-core144. And then used BalenaEtcher Version 1.5.81 to burn the image onto an old 8 GB SD Card. And I have a HDMI cable plugged into an old small HDTV.
When I boot I see four IPFire icons across the top left of the screen.
Plus lots of Linux “stuff”. Then the screen clears and I see four IPFire icons across the top left of the screen…
… and then nothing!
So something isn’t right. Maybe try with and older build for now. And I’ll try the same.
sorry for the late reply, I wanted to do some other test before replying. I used the same version of ipfire and balena etcher as you but again without success. I also used another card reader. No way.
This is the picture I see.
I burned another distro on the same sd card with the same card reader and BalenaEtcher (OpenWrt) and it works well. Also tried another card. I’ll retry again and again.
Can’t believe! I downloaded again the image, and used yet another sdcard (the 3rd one) and now boots! I don’t know if it was a corrupted image or defective card, but now works and this is nice!
Thanks guys for your prompt help
Better still, omar_ita, write the newly downloaded image to one of the earlier SD cards. If that SD then boots correctly then it was, indeed, the earlier downloaded image that was faulty.