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
