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Make ArchLinux ARM SD cards for various SBCs
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Board: BeagleBoard #3

Open a-v-s opened 10 months ago

a-v-s commented 10 months ago

The BeagleBoard is officially supported by ArchLinux. However their image does not boot on my Revision C3 board. The Revision C3 board potentially requires an old version of U-Boot to boot. Revision C4 switched to a faster (720 MHz) version of the SoC, while the C3 revision has a 600 MHz version. This might be the boot issue.

Check out old revisions of U-boot and find one that boots on a Revision C3 board.

a-v-s commented 10 months ago

Latest upstream u-boot works fine on my BeagleBoard C3. It seems this issue has been fixed since I last tested the BeagleBoard.

a-v-s commented 10 months ago

The BeagleBoard is very picky about its SD card. (16 GB max supported) There is a full size Transcend 16 GB SD card which works. I've tried various 2GB and 4 GB microSD cards, none boot. My USB3 card reader only takes microSD, the SD card reader is USB2 and its slow.