[Arm-dev] RPi 3, CentOS 7 install problem

[Fabian Arrotin]

On 04/07/16 11:50, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 04/07/16 09:33, Fabian Arrotin wrote:
>> On 02/07/16 14:10, Steve Berg wrote:
>>> Trying to get
>>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1603-RaspberryPi3.img installed
>>> to a SanDisk 64G SD card for a Raspberry Pi3.
>>>
>>> The dd goes well, the Pi will boot with no problems.  I run
>>> "touch /.rootfs-repartition" and then a reboot.
>>>
>>> It seems to do the repartition but I get a kernel panic at the
>>> next reboot.  On the console I see: ---[ end Kernel panic - not
>>> syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,3)
>>>
>>> Any tips on how to get the SD card repartitioned to use the whole
>>> space after install?
>>>
> 
>> We had several people reporting that issue that seems to appear if
>> you have a microSD card that is > 32Gb . I'm not able to reproduce
>> it as I don't have SD cards that are as big as that, but it seems
>> an issue with the rootfs-resize tool : see 
>> https://github.com/ctyler/rootfs-resize/issues/2 If that's
>> confirmed, we probably have to stop promoting that tool and even
>> remove it if that's unmaintained and unfixable.
> 
> is there anything else that can be used instead ?
> 

Something to search for, but it seems that Fedora switched back to
proposing using gparted
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F23/Installation#Resize_the_Root_Filesystem)
We can at least modify the wiki page to clearly state that there is an
issue with rootfs-resize on cards > 32Gb, and also decide what to do for
the next images we'll create/distribute (like removing rootfs-resize tool ?)


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Fabian Arrotin
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