On May 9, 2013, at 1:17 AM, MLists <mli...@starmania.net> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has any hints/tips on getting Fedora 18 > up and running on a Raspberry Pi (specifically the latest 2.0 > model B 512M version). I’ve tried about 4 different tutorials > scattered around the net to copy the dist onto the SD card, about > a half dozen different SD cards. Also tried a couple of > preinstalled ones from eBay just in case I was doing something > stupid. Also tried about 3 different Raspberry Pi’s. In all > cases I get nothing… apply power and just get a black screen. > Have tried a couple of other distros and they all seem to boot > up right away the first time. I’d prefer to be using Fedora > since I’m far more familiar with it, but I’m at wit’s end trying > to get it to work. > > Cheers, > >>>>> Mike <<<<<
Anything could be the problem Mike, but maybe you suffer from this issue: I got two raspberry's, both model B 512 version. One raspberry was delivered in October 2012 and the other one in April 2013. The old model boots well with rpfr18 final image. The new model did not ;-( Only the red power LED stays ON and the green (SD card) LED only flashes very briefly. Then nothing happened.... What seems to be the problem: New raspberry pi hardware comes with a new memory chip. Unfortunately the boot-loader that is used in the raspberry pi fedora (rpfr) 18 final is out dated and does not support the new memory chip. The good news is: a new bootloader is available! All Linux brands for raspberry use the same type of boot-loader You need to copy the three files boot-loader files -bootcode.bin, fixup.dat and start.elf- from an other raspberry distro to your /boot file-system For example, I use the boot-loader files from the latest OpenElec image. You can download it here: http://openelec.tv/get-openelec/download/finish/10-raspberry-pi-builds/76-openelec-stable-raspberry-pi-arm There are several posts in the raspberrypi.org forum about this issue. Check these posts for more info: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=42511 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=329434#p329434 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=329416#p329416 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=328816#p328816 I hope this will help you. (Btw: This is the first time I post something in this mailing list. I hope I followed the mailing list guidelines in the right way. If not, please let me know...) Ted Sluis
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