ASL3 on RPi 3 Using Image allstar3-arm64-3.0.18.img.xz

I have recently been unable to get a RPi 3B+ to run with the allstar3-arm64-3.0.18.img.xz.

The image boots, runs for a few seconds and sits there. The network connection is never established.

I have made several ASL Nodes with RPi 4's but this RPi 3 issue is baffling.

  • Does the Pi appliance no longer support anything less than an RPi 4?

  • Is it a memory issue?
    (RPi 3's have only 1 GB of RAM; I have been using RPi 4's with 4 GB of RAM.)

Roger
WA1NVC

I read that you have to use the older version of the raspberry pi image installer, not the latest as the new one breaks the WiFi config. Maybe that’s your problem.

The latest Raspberry Pi Imager application has an annoying bug that is affecting many people. For details, have a look at Do Not Use Pi Imager 1.9.4.

I am aware of the Raspberry Pi Imager problem and have dealt with it.

I am also not using WiFi.

I currently have the latest version of ASL3 running on an RPi5, RPi4, and RPi Zero 2 W (w/512MB of RAM).

Can you put a screen and keyboard on it to see what's going on? There's no de facto problems with a Pi 3B - it's supported.

So after I made the post yesterday, I set the node aside. I plugged it back in this morning and there was immediately a lot of disk activity for several minutes, the network connection came up, and I could get to the dashboard. It appears to be fine.

This was not my only try at this. I used two RPi3B+, two SDcards, and tried this multiple times with multiple images before the first post. I had also tried a power cycle on multiple images before THIS time it finally worked!

So I looked for a difference, found an older RPi 3B Rev 1.2 rather than the two RPi 3B+ Rev 1.4, and it came up perfectly the very first time. So something different between the RPi 3B and RPi 3B+?

Roger
WA1NVC

There shouldn't be, but you may need to do an eeprom update of the v1.2 unit from an 32-bit OS first? That's just speculative though. I believe that you need certain firmware, that comes with the normal package stream, to do 64-bit on Pi 3s.