On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 10:46 AM Axel Braun <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Freitag, 26. November 2021, 10:10:56 CET schrieb Roger Oberholtzer: > > I have downloaded the current Leap/KDE installer for ARM. I have > > placed it on my SIM card. When I boot, it loads the kernel and initrd. > > Then the screen clears from the initial boot screen, and nothing > > happens. I just get a blinking cursor. It makes no difference how long > > I wait. I have tried a number of SIM cards. Obviously I could be > > unlucky with them... I have a Leap SIM card from over a year ago that > > does boot fine. So I know the Pi is working. > > I'm using the KDE image without issues with a 32GB card > What you can try: boot into runlevel 3 (hit 'e' on the boot screen, move down > to the lie with the boot options and add 'init 3' (without the ' ') and hit > F10) > Log in and run startx > If needed, kill the X-Server with CRTL-ALT-backspace and check > /var/log/Xorg.o.log for error messages
I can of course try this. But I fear that the problem is happening before this. I never see any boot messages. Usually when the initial boot screen goes away (where you select the kernel), boot messages (systemd managed stuff) can be seen. Pressing ESC (which usually toggles this) has no effect. I just see the blinking cursor. At first I thought it was expanding the image to fill the disk (which is usually an early step when the image is booted for the first time). That is one reason I let it run for a while. But I would have thought that something might be printed before the disk is set up. Of course, I do not know if these images were created so they do this first boot step. -- Roger Oberholtzer
