Raspberry PI 3 arch image

[tholgard]

Hello, I am looking for any Arch Linux image for the raspberry pi 3 (i will then pacman -Syu), I'm currently using on a laptop with windows 7 and sd card reader and booting from a live cd is not an option. Without having access to a linux operating system I'm unable to partition the sd card (thus I cannot use the tar.gz provided officially). Booting up a Virtual machine doesn't help because the sd card reader is embedded on the laptop and it is not recognized on the guest OS.

[ShiftPlusOne]

There are alternatives (which I am sure others will mention) , but the least painful approach is to get a usb sd card reader. That will work well enough in a vm.

[fruitoftheloom]

PINN includes ARCH

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[tholgard]

Thanks. I'm checking PINN out.

[Milliways]

PINN includes ARCH

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I just installed PINN. Unfortunately it only seems to have Arch for Pi2. (I am not sure WHY, after 1 year, there isn't a Pi3 image, or even why you wouldn't use the same image on Pi2 & Pi3, like Raspbian).

[fruitoftheloom]

PINN includes ARCH

viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574

I just installed PINN. Unfortunately it only seems to have Arch for Pi2. (I am not sure WHY, after 1 year, there isn't a Pi3 image, or even why you wouldn't use the same image on Pi2 & Pi3, like Raspbian).

I believe RPi 2B & 3B use the same ARMv7 Release......

[Koeshi]

PINN includes ARCH

viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574

I just installed PINN. Unfortunately it only seems to have Arch for Pi2. (I am not sure WHY, after 1 year, there isn't a Pi3 image, or even why you wouldn't use the same image on Pi2 & Pi3, like Raspbian).

I believe RPi 2B & 3B use the same ARMv7 Release......

They do use the same. There is also a 64-bit Arch image for the Pi3, but it is not fully functional or stable yet from what I know.

[Martin Frezman]

There is also a 64-bit Arch image for the Pi3, but it is not fully functional or stable yet from what I know.

Where do you get that image?

[procount]

@Milliways - I updated the OS description to (hopefully) clarify that the Arch 2 image is for RPi2/3

[Milliways]

@Milliways - I updated the OS description to (hopefully) clarify that the Arch 2 image is for RPi2/3

It does indeed boot on the Pi3.

Initially it did not seem to have inbuilt WiFi support (ifconfig did not show wlan0, even with a link-local address, as I would expect), which seemed to indicate it is not finding the hardware.

The WiFi firmware

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/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin

seems to be in place, and there is a

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bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb

Device Tree blob in the boot sector.

I did get WiFi working by entering the following commands as root.

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ip link set dev wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
 dhcpcd wlan0

This did not survive reboot.
Any issues I have seem to be with Arch, not PINN

[Martin Frezman]

Note that Arch is old-school, so you need to do:

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ifconfig wlan0 up

before it will show up in plain "ifconfig".

You can do:

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ifconfig -a

to see it even it is not up.

I'm also old-school, so I am used to "ifconfig". There are, of course, equivalent commands in that new thing ("ip").

[Koeshi]

There is also a 64-bit Arch image for the Pi3, but it is not fully functional or stable yet from what I know.

Where do you get that image?

Download from here: http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinux ... est.tar.gz

Information here: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv ... berry-pi-3

Don't expect WiFi and stuff to work.