Problems installing some 64 bit OSs

[sandrosart]

Hi everybody,
I'm experiencing some problems with the installation of a 64-bit OS in the Raspberry Pi 3 board. I started off using Raspbian, and I had no issue at all, but then I needed to switch to a 64-bit one and I'm not able to work in a satisfying way with any of them. So far I've tried the latest Fedora distro (27, workstation) and it works, but it's way too slow, Arch Linux ARM and openSUSE: with the former one I'm able to go into CLI mode but sometimes the screen switches suddenly to a series of strings reporting information about hdmi and ethernet (one of these lines has "hardware not capable of remote wakeup", sorry for not being too much accurate, eventually if you want I can be more specific) and the board stops responding; moreover I'm not able to install correctly a GUI interface. openSUSE instead won't allow me to go further the very first steps of the installation: it prints "Starting udev" and then the system dies.
I'm using an official psu, 5.1V at 2.5A, and the SD card is a 32GB Kingston, I checked and it doesn't seem to be in the "black list".
Have you guys any idea on how to solve this? I don't really mind which OS, I just need one. Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.
Sandro

[fruitoftheloom]

Hi everybody,
I'm experiencing some problems with the installation of a 64-bit OS in the Raspberry Pi 3 board. I started off using Raspbian, and I had no issue at all, but then I needed to switch to a 64-bit one and I'm not able to work in a satisfying way with any of them. So far I've tried the latest Fedora distro (27, workstation) and it works, but it's way too slow, Arch Linux ARM and openSUSE: with the former one I'm able to go into CLI mode but sometimes the screen switches suddenly to a series of strings reporting information about hdmi and ethernet (one of these lines has "hardware not capable of remote wakeup", sorry for not being too much accurate, eventually if you want I can be more specific) and the board stops responding; moreover I'm not able to install correctly a GUI interface. openSUSE instead won't allow me to go further the very first steps of the installation: it prints "Starting udev" and then the system dies.
I'm using an official psu, 5.1V at 2.5A, and the SD card is a 32GB Kingston, I checked and it doesn't seem to be in the "black list".
Have you guys any idea on how to solve this? I don't really mind which OS, I just need one. Sorry for the long post and thanks in advance.
Sandro

May we ask why you need a ARM64 Operating System ??

[sandrosart]

Sure, I need to write some assembly programs in the ARM 64 version

[mattmiller]

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[fruitoftheloom]

Sure, I need to write some assembly programs in the ARM 64 version

You have pretty much exhausted the Community efforts of ARM64 OSes, except pi64 which is Debain based:

https://github.com/bamarni/pi64

https://github.com/bamarni/pi64/releases

[procount]

The only 64-bit OS I ever installed is Gentoo64 when I added it to PINN's list of supported OSes.
I only played with it a bit, but most things seemed to work ok.

[sandrosart]

At the end I managed to install Gentoo, quite easily actually. Now I've to understand how to make it able to compile 32-bit arm assembly, but at least I can see something working!

[sandrosart]

I also tried the OS @fruitoftheloom suggested, it works as well and it's even better because it's more similar to Ubuntu (in terms of terminal's commands) which I already know. Thanks to everyone!