[Arm-dev] Centos on rpi4

Wed Jun 3 17:41:49 UTC 2020
Pablo Sebastián Greco <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>

On 2/6/20 17:08, R C wrote:
>
> On 6/2/20 2:03 PM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>>
>> On 2/6/20 14:48, R C wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/2/20 11:36 AM, Pablo Sebastián Greco wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2/6/20 13:52, R C wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am trying to get Centos going on an RPI4 with 4GB;
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> so far I tried to use:
>>>>>
>>>>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-4-2003-sda.raw.xz
>>>>>
>>>>>  (which does seem to do much of anything at all, black screen)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> This is the image I use normally for my work on my rpi4-4G without 
>>>> any issues (32bit-lpae memory)
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok,  I'll try that again.  (I have no idea what lpae memory is, I 
>>> just bought an rpi4 with 4gb)
>> LPAE is what allows 32bit kernels to access beyond the 3G of ram
>
>
> Ah,  ok.  so do RPI4s  standard come with that?  (probably, since I 
> could boot ubuntu).
It is a sofware (kernel) thing, not a hardware thing.
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> and:
>>>>>
>>>>> CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-RaspberryPI-Minimal-2003-sda.raw.xz:
>>>>>
>>>>> which seems to display the "rainbow screen",  but that's about i.
>>>> That's expected not to work on rpi-4, so that's ok
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a different Centos image that would work  Or is there 
>>>>> some setting that's needed?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Ron
>>>>>
>>>>>
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