Failure to boot on Raspberry Pi 3
I’m trying to install Alpine 3.3.2 on my Raspberry Pi 3 (which I understand from #5197 is now supported).
I’ve created a bootable SD from my Mac and extracted the rpi tarball onto it. However, when I start up my Pi I get a couple of flashes from the disk access indicator LED and then nothing; all I see is a black screen.
Am I doing something wrong? Anything I can try to get this working? Let me know if I can provide any further info needed to troubleshoot.
I did the following to create the SD (although I get the same result when I use a single partition, following the instructions on the wiki)
# Format the disk as FAT32 with MBR
$ sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 ALPINE MBRFormat /dev/disk2
# Partition into 1GB for OS and ~15GB for /var
$ sudo diskutil splitPartition /dev/disk2s1 FAT32 ALPINE 1GB FAT32 VAR R
# Use gnu tar to extract tarball (bsd tar complains that "./: Can't create '.'")
$ gtar xf alpine-rpi-3.3.2-armhf.rpi.tar.gz -C /Volumes/ALPINE
# Mark the first partition as active
$ diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
$ sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk2
fdisk: 1> flag 1
Partition 1 marked active.
fdisk:*1> write
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> print
Disk: /dev/disk2 geometry: 1936/255/63 [31116288 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*1: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 8192 - 1953120] Win95 FAT-32
2: 0B 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1961312 - 29154976] Win95 FAT-32
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused
(from redmine: issue id 5296, created on 2016-03-19, closed on 2016-03-24)