[Patrick, KD7WPQ]

I just wanted to let anyone know that had the same problem I had which was a lockup on boot with the 3B+ that if you put the SD card in a 3B, boot, login and perform rpi-update, let it complete then shutdown -P now (so you don’t corrupt anything) then you will then be able to boot correctly. I just tested this successfully myself after failed attempts to boot to my 3B+.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Aaron, N3MBH.

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Hello Patrick,
Thanks for posting to the forums to help others. My question to is what version of ORP were you trying to boot on your 3B+? I can say with certainly the 1.1.0 image uses a version of Raspbian prior to the release of the 3B+. As you suggested you should be able to boot the 1.1.0 (or prior version) on a supported board and do the updates you described.

2.0.0 was built with a newer version of Raspbian that has kernel support for the 3B+. I thought that I had another user test the image prior to release for compatibility. If this is the case be sure to let us know.

I think one of the guys that has a 3B+ will try to test and report back. Thanks.

73,
Aaron – N3MBH / WRFV871

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[Aaron, N3MBH]

Dan just check the 2.0.0 image on his Pi 3B+ and had no issues booting. Let us know if this is a persistent issue for you and we will investigate further. 73

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[Patrick, KD7WPQ]

As I’ve already managed to get mine to boot with the rpi-update and don’t have a spare SD card that works in the pi I’ll need to make a image of what I have then write the stock 2.0.0 image back and give it another whirl. I know it locked up before but I’ll double check and take a picture.

Here is the Pi I have and ordered.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BDR5PDW/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It is indeed a 3B+

I’ll write back when I have more to report.

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Not a problem. Perhaps it was a weird fluke. But if you encounter the issue again, we’d certainly like to track it down. Thanks.

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[Patrick, KD7WPQ]

Well tested it a few times and it seemed to work, so I’m not sure what happened and why it was locking up on startup.

[Aaron, N3MBH]

Thanks for the update. Yeah, occasionally folks will get a bad burn or bad download that will semi-work but cause some weird issues. One of the first things we suggest is to redownload and reburn. Maybe times they report back that it fixes the issue.

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