Hi there!
Assenbled my new Zynthan V5.1 right now and downloaded the current stable version and “burned” it onto a 16GB SD card. However, the Pi doesn’t seem to boot. I tried another SD-card (64GB), the same issue. I downloaded the image again, same.
Of course I extracted the xz file
I tried a rasbian image on both SD cards and the pi booted without problems.
The MD5 checksum of the img file (not the xz file) is:
8d2ff47bb2f7c126e9412e47dbfaa076
could anybody verify if this is the correct checksum to make sure that there went nothing wrong on the extraction?
Any ideas otherwise?
Thanks
Oli
EDIT:
Forgot to mention: I’m a Linux geek and copied the image to the SD card both via dd and pv like many many times before…
I tried the oram image now, and there the typical linux bootscreen appears. However, there a some error messages regarding the file system. I assume, something went wrong with the transfer to the sd card
You have to be really patient during the first boot (it takes a while to resize the drive, to set up the system, to launch -if everything is okay- the Zynthian User Interface).
Could you be more explicit about theses error messages ? Did you get them on the very first boot or after logging into Zynthian with ssh/webconf ?
I do not have your degree of Linux free-handedness (unfortunately), but I too would suggest to stick within Zynthian to the recommended procedures, among them using Pi Imager in the first place to burn drives .
The Zynth is a very powerful Debian embedded system, but I have learned by experience that is very procedural context sensitive.
@Aethermind is correct however in highlighting the point that we should avoid using our Linux wizard status to embark on follies of our own invention. Zynthian uses and OS that is based very much on Debian 12 (Bookworm) but there are various things we do to ensure it operates how we expect and performing normal Linux admin operations may conflict with such configuration. For example, in the past it has been unwise to perform apt upgrade on zynthian. This is especially true for stable which has not been tested against the latest updates. It may be several months old and there may be conflicting package changes.
It is good to have a fellow Linux savy buddy. Geeks stick together!!! (I won’t give you the “vi or emacs” test that I was challenged with to validate my geekness!) Welcome.
sorry, it was not my intention to brag with my linux knowledge. I only wanted to say that this is not my first raspi I set up and until now dd or pv had never a problem with this. @Aethermind
you mentioned that the Pi imager is recommended. In the wiki I only found recommendations for BalenaEtcher (which I also tried), dd and pv. If there is another knowledge source, maybe the different recommendations should be consolidated… @riban
I use Linux for more than 20 years, but I could never really warm up to vi or emacs
Okay, maybe I’m no geek at all???
I did not think for a sec that you were sporting your hard-earned Linux expertise: the better for you, and I certainly wish I had the CLI and system management fluency which I sometimes see around here in the forum!
As for the latest consolidated trends, in fail-safe Zynthian operation, I think that the Discourse takes precedence, since the wiki - while painstakingly maintained - usually registers updated changes in procedures with a certain delay.
Concerning the most advisable way to etch data on mass storage media the easy way, it seems that lately Pi Imager has become more or less the recommended standard, for Oram and Pi5 system setting and maintenance, with Balena having occasionally failed with certain models and sizes of drives. But, it is a great time-honored software nevertheless, and there are certainly more geeky and ingenious ways to do just the same things as Pi Imager .
I only use vim because I was taught the fundementals of vi during a Unix course I did in the 1990’s. I learned that vi would be on pretty much every Unix box you encountered so it was worth understanding the basics. I never went beyond that fundamental knowledge but have used it extensively during my time with Linux over the past 25 years. I get confused when offered something easier to use like nano or worse - joe which seems to be the flavour of this month! I never tried to understand emacs - partly because, why bother learn two archaic programs and also, it gives the other geeks something to fight with me about!
I gave up caring what OS people use quite some time ago. It is a tool and I have never argued about someone using a Stanley hammer over any other hammer so why worry what others find useful in the computer sphere. We chose what suits us, based on may considerations. Often misguided but we make those choices and we live with them.
Give me a bash shell any day over any other UI, simply because I have sufficient experience to get done what I need relatively quickly. I can type a command (with tab auto-complete ) faster than I can push a rodent around a desk, clicking here, there, everywhere. But that is just me. I don’t care to impose my oddities on other poor souls. They have their own problems.
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