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anthony-mills / raspberrypi-carputer

UI component for the Nomadic Pi a Raspberry Pi based car computer. Allows interaction with MPD and GPSD backend services.
https://www.nomadicpi.com/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Image on website doesn't seem to work for me. #2

Open PerryRT opened 6 years ago

PerryRT commented 6 years ago

Tried downloading the image file (v 1.1) from your website here: https://www.nomadicpi.com/download.php two separate times, copied to two separate SD cards, both give the same error on power of my brand new Pi - a POST/ACT/green LED blink 4-long, 4-short. According to the RPi forums here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=58151 that means that the start.elf file is corrupted somehow. (Regular Raspbian works fine.)

It might be hardware related - I have a 3B+ here. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a regular 3B right now - I'll have to cannibalize one out of another project, but will test that tomorrow night.

I tried git cloning under Raspbian, but didn't get very far there either - I was getting 405 errors when trying to access the port. I will also work that tomorrow, once I reinstall my brian. (edit - make that brain, although it's apropos.)

PerryRT commented 6 years ago

As a follow up, I finally got time to test the image on a 3B, and it works fine. I now assume this is a problem with the 3B+ architecture, and I've updated the title to match.

anthony-mills commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the update @PerryRT. The image on the site was made before the 3+ was released so I am going to assume the Kernel needs updating to support the new hardware.

Unfortunately I live a rather nomadic life style so finding time and internet to update the images can be challenging.

If you run raspi-update as root and update the packages while running on your Pi, the SD card should then work when put in the Raspberry Pi 3B+. As I am currently running the codebase on a 3B+ in my car.

That said I will try and get a new image generated for download in the next week or two. Most people will be using the 3B + moving forward and there have been some other optimisations I have made since the last release. So I don't want to leave people with an image that may not work on their device.

Thank you for the tip off, its much appreciated!