IPFire 2.27 (armv6l) - Core Update 159 has been running quite nicely on my raspberry pi 3B, so I decided to test how well the aarch64 image would work. With the HDMI + keyboard working properly, the CLI program “setup” could be run to get the network interfaces configured. Pings to other computers …

Success! The culprit was inappropriate permissions for the root directory (i.e. /). In order to not wear out the SD card, I had put the root file system on an external USB SSD. When preparing the empty ext4 file system, the permissions for the root directory were set to 700 with the owner and owner…

Web GUI fails for aarch64 RPI 3B

Hardware Single Board Computers

jon (Jon) 28 August 2021 16:51 2

~~The fix for the “permission 700” issue is further down in the thread. Hopefully that will get the GUI working.~~

EDIT: my bad for not reading!