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Raspberry pi boots UBUNTU to rainbow screen

Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:06 pm

Hi!
My raspberry pi 2 boots ok from NOOBS. However, if I put the official ubuntu raspberry pi image on the sd card, it boots to a rainbow screen, and stays there. A lot of places say to add "boot_delay=1" to the config.txt, however this does not work in my case. Any ideas? Thanks!

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Re: Raspberry pi boots to rainbow screen

Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:40 pm

Shoop wrote:Hi!
My raspberry pi 2 boots ok from NOOBS. However, if I put the official ubuntu raspberry pi image on the sd card, it boots to a rainbow screen, and stays there. A lot of places say to add "boot_delay=1" to the config.txt, however this does not work in my case. Any ideas? Thanks!
There is no Official Ubuntu release, it is a Community Supported Distribution, did you download from:

https://ubuntu-pi-flavour-maker.org
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Re: Raspberry pi boots to rainbow screen

Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:53 pm

fruitoftheloom wrote:There is no Official Ubuntu release, it is a Community Supported Distribution, did you download ...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

displays a picture representing Ubuntu Mate. Whether or not that makes it "official" is, I suppose, open to debate.

Note, BTW, that there is some discrepancy between what is displayed on the official downloads page vs. what is displayed in NOOBS/PINN. I think Ubuntu Mate is on the downloads page but not in NOOBS/PINN. Arch is the opposite; it is in NOOBS/PINN, but not on the official downloads page.

WINO IOT is on both.
If this post appears in the wrong forums category, my apologies.

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Re: Raspberry pi boots to rainbow screen

Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:57 pm

Martin Frezman wrote:
fruitoftheloom wrote:There is no Official Ubuntu release, it is a Community Supported Distribution, did you download ...
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

displays a picture representing Ubuntu Mate. Whether or not that makes it "official" is, I suppose, open to debate.

Note, BTW, that there is some discrepancy between what is displayed on the official downloads page vs. what is displayed in NOOBS/PINN. I think Ubuntu Mate is on the downloads page but not in NOOBS/PINN. Arch is the opposite; it is in NOOBS/PINN, but not on the official downloads page.

WINO IOT is on both.
In the link I posted it states:

Tasty Ubuntu fillings for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3
A community project to make Ubuntu based operating systems for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3.
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Re: Raspberry pi boots to rainbow screen

Sat Jan 21, 2017 5:59 pm

In the link I posted it states:
So? Your point being?

Seriously, I have no idea what you think your post means.
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Re: Raspberry pi boots to rainbow screen

Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:01 pm

Martin Frezman wrote:
In the link I posted it states:
So? Your point being?

Seriously, I have no idea what you think your post means.
You queried that I stated that Ubuntu was not Official :roll:
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Re: Raspberry pi boots UBUNTU to rainbow screen

Tue Feb 21, 2017 11:11 pm

So... Is there any way for install Ubuntu MATE on NOOBS multiboot on a Raspberry Pi 3?

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Re: Raspberry pi boots UBUNTU to rainbow screen

Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:54 am

marker523 wrote:So... Is there any way for install Ubuntu MATE on NOOBS multiboot on a Raspberry Pi 3?
NoobS allows one to add an OS not included, it is somewhere in the ReadMe:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/bl ... /README.md
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Re: Raspberry pi boots UBUNTU to rainbow screen

Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:15 am

fruitoftheloom wrote:
marker523 wrote:So... Is there any way for install Ubuntu MATE on NOOBS multiboot on a Raspberry Pi 3?
NoobS allows one to add an OS not included, it is somewhere in the ReadMe:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/bl ... /README.md
You mean "How to create a custom OS version" section, right?

But it doesnt work for Ubuntu because I dont have json or tar.xz files when I download UbuntuMate from ubuntu site, I only get a zip file contains an img file.

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Re: Raspberry pi boots UBUNTU to rainbow screen

Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:11 am

The "How to create a custom OS" section explains how you would create the .json and .tar.xz files and other supplementary files in a suitable manner for NOOBS/PINN from the original .img files.
In the NOOBS wiki there is a more detailed explanation of how to do it for Ubuntu Mate.
PINN - NOOBS with the extras... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574

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