First, let me thank Stuart Winter and the other contributors for Slackware ARM on the Raspberry Pi.
My problem: I am fortunate to have two RPi boards of nearly sequential serial numbers to play with. I had absolutely no trouble booting and installing Slackware ARM on _one_ of them, but they other hangs on boot, either with the rainbow screen, or no video output at all. Debian-wheezy and Arch Linux from the raspberrypi.org site both work on both boards. The problem is the same booting from either the installation image raspi-slack-installer-01Aug12.img.xz or on a fully installed Slackware ARM made on the working RPi. It boots on one device, but not the other. I tried different SDHC cards, power supplies, keyboards, etc. to no avail. Switch everything to the other RPi, and it works fine. My workaround: Based on something I read on the Raspberry Pi troubleshooting forum, I copied the start.elf and loader.bin from debian-wheezy to the first partition of the raspi-slack-installer-01Aug12. Now I am able to boot on the balky RPi. This is dumb luck because I charged ahead without understanding the boot process on ARM. So I offer this information, for whatever it's worth :) _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
