<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:25 PM Jerry <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com">mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 3:16 PM Jerry <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com" target="_blank">mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:48 PM James Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So I now have my RP3+ and I used Etcher to install the RP Stretcher from 2017-11-29. However when I turn on the RP3+, I just get the multicolor screen and the board has a blinking Green LED in some pattern.<br>
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Did I miss a step? I just downloaded the .zip file for Stretcher, Flashed the microSD with Etcher, and plugged it in.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>That sounds like a kernel problem. I know that the 3B+ needs a
newer kernel. I don't think that was reflected in Raspbian until at
least the RPi 3B+ release date of 3/14/18.</div><div><br></div><div>There
may be a way for you to only upgrade the kernel by chrooting into that
distribution from another Raspberry Pi, perhaps by installing current
Raspbian on another card and mounting the target 11/29/17 Raspbian card with a USB reader.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a pain but I bet that will work. I've done similar things with other single board computers. The end will be 11/29/17 with an upgraded kernel. Which version to pick is another story. Perhaps the latest one, perhaps not. You could try the oldest kernel made after 3/14/18 I suppose.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You might have to grab the actual .deb file and upgrade it manually with dpkg -i. I'm not very familiar with Debian-based distributions. Perhaps there is a limited upgrade apt command that will do it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Good luck. If you get stuck I can do it in parallel here. I have spare microSD cards and a RPi3B+.<br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If you have a Pi2 or maybe even a Pi1, you could just boot from your 11/29/17 image in that machine and upgrade the kernel that way. No chroot needed. Should work just fine.<br>
</div></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I built a system for a frien on Pi2 and upward (including the Pi3b+), and they all boot with the PRi2 image using a kernel that is 2 years old.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I think what might be going on with MythTV hiccup'ing is that the aarch64 architecture that the Pi3+ is capable is just recently being adopted everywhere. I woiuld imagine that may be the difference between versions (not sure - I ship Arch rather than Raspbian on them). Arch offers the aarch64 version, but it is still missing a lot of functionality and DTS capabilities.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">Of course, I may be way off - I did not even go look at the stretch downloads - just throwing it out there. There is definitely not a brand new kernel needed though - they still run just fine with the old 32 bit kernal and userland as well. The 64 bit kernels are definitely not prime time though (aarch64 vs armv7h).<br></div></div></div>