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* [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
@ 2020-12-07 11:11 Peter Humphrey
  2020-12-07 23:30 ` Teru Yuu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2020-12-07 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Morning all,

I've just bought an rpi 400, which is a nice little machine, and I'm wondering 
whether anyone has managed to install Gentoo on one. I've tried a couple of 
bootable images for other models, but they can't boot. I get some debug output 
but it means nothing to me.

According to this site, the 400's boot process differs from other models':

https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015131057-My-Raspberry-Pi-400-will-not-boot-is-faulty

Any ideas?

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
  2020-12-07 11:11 [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400? Peter Humphrey
@ 2020-12-07 23:30 ` Teru Yuu
  2020-12-08  0:34   ` Neil Bothwick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Teru Yuu @ 2020-12-07 23:30 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:11:52AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>Morning all,
>
>I've just bought an rpi 400, which is a nice little machine, and I'm wondering 
>whether anyone has managed to install Gentoo on one. I've tried a couple of 
>bootable images for other models, but they can't boot. I get some debug output 
>but it means nothing to me.
>
>According to this site, the 400's boot process differs from other models':
>
>https://support.thepihut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015131057-My-Raspberry-Pi-400-will-not-boot-is-faulty
>
>Any ideas?
>
>-- 
>Regards,
>Peter.

As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo.
For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up
on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled) and from there it was
fairly regular gentoo install (except for compiling toolchain on desktop
via crossdev to speed it up).

I even left bootloader that came in alpine tarball, just overwrote it
with gentoo kernel, initframs and changed cmdline config.
Give alpine a go as a boot medium, if that doesn't work you can always
use official raspbian instead, which is guaranteed to boot on Pi400.

Regards,
Teru


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
  2020-12-07 23:30 ` Teru Yuu
@ 2020-12-08  0:34   ` Neil Bothwick
  2020-12-08  6:51     ` Andrew Lowe
  2020-12-08  9:58     ` Peter Humphrey
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2020-12-08  0:34 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:30:12 +0100, Teru Yuu wrote:

> As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo.
> For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up
> on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled) 

You can do that with Raspbian too. Mount the boot partition of the SD
card on your computer and create a file called ssh. Then Raspbian will
boot with SSH enabled.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Voting Democrat or Republican is like choosing a cabin in the Titanic.

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
  2020-12-08  0:34   ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2020-12-08  6:51     ` Andrew Lowe
  2020-12-08  9:55       ` Peter Humphrey
  2020-12-08  9:58     ` Peter Humphrey
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andrew Lowe @ 2020-12-08  6:51 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 8/12/20 8:34 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:30:12 +0100, Teru Yuu wrote:
> 
>> As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo.
>> For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up
>> on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled)
> 
> You can do that with Raspbian too. Mount the boot partition of the SD
> card on your computer and create a file called ssh. Then Raspbian will
> boot with SSH enabled.
> 

There is always this option:

https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

	Andrew



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
  2020-12-08  6:51     ` Andrew Lowe
@ 2020-12-08  9:55       ` Peter Humphrey
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2020-12-08  9:55 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 06:51:25 GMT Andrew Lowe wrote:

> There is always this option:
> 
> https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

Nope. Tried that first. As I said, the boot process in Pi 400 differs from the 
others.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





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* Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?
  2020-12-08  0:34   ` Neil Bothwick
  2020-12-08  6:51     ` Andrew Lowe
@ 2020-12-08  9:58     ` Peter Humphrey
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Peter Humphrey @ 2020-12-08  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tuesday, 8 December 2020 00:34:53 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:30:12 +0100, Teru Yuu wrote:
> > As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo.
> > For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up
> > on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled)
> 
> You can do that with Raspbian too. Mount the boot partition of the SD
> card on your computer and create a file called ssh. Then Raspbian will
> boot with SSH enabled.

I'll try that - thanks!

-- 
Regards,
Peter.





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