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On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:11:52AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>Morning all, |
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>I've just bought an rpi 400, which is a nice little machine, and I'm wondering |
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>whether anyone has managed to install Gentoo on one. I've tried a couple of |
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>bootable images for other models, but they can't boot. I get some debug output |
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>but it means nothing to me. |
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>According to this site, the 400's boot process differs from other models': |
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>https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015131057-My-Raspberry-Pi-400-will-not-boot-is-faulty |
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>Any ideas? |
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>-- |
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>Regards, |
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>Peter. |
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As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo. |
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For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up |
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on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled) and from there it was |
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fairly regular gentoo install (except for compiling toolchain on desktop |
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via crossdev to speed it up). |
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I even left bootloader that came in alpine tarball, just overwrote it |
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with gentoo kernel, initframs and changed cmdline config. |
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Give alpine a go as a boot medium, if that doesn't work you can always |
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use official raspbian instead, which is guaranteed to boot on Pi400. |
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Regards, |
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Teru |
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