[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation

[Jim Abernathy]

On 10/06/2018 03:16 PM, Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 2:48 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     Did I miss a step?  I just downloaded the .zip file for Stretcher,
>     Flashed the microSD with Etcher, and plugged it in.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Good luck.  If you get stuck I can do it in parallel here.  I have 
> spare microSD cards and a RPi3B+.

So I downloaded the latest Raspbian for RP3+ 
(2018-06-27-raspbian-stretch.zip) and used Etcher to flash it to a 32GB 
microSD and this one booted fine.  I'm going to try and get MythTV Lite 
running on it like I didn't know any better and see what happens.

Jim A

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