Hi everyone, I’m new to mender tool and I’m having a problem using mender-convert tool when it comes generating a mender image (.sdimg) from “golden image” Ubuntu Server 16.04 and which is running properly on Raspberry Pi 3 B+. I have runned the following commands in order to do this: sudo ./d…

I believe this is the same problem reported in a different thread (see my comments there), [image] Issue about mender-convert from 2 different input image General Discussions As we known, mender-convert can be used to convert existing disk images for use with Mender. For…

Also welcome to the Mender community. I hope you will have a pleasant experience :slight_smile:

Okay, thank you very much, I will try to try ubuntu 18 32-bit although the image I used was this: ubuntu-16.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi3.img and it is 32 bit I think. Best regards.

[image] moises.valeo: Okay, thank you very much, I will try to try ubuntu 18 32-bit although the image I used was this: ubuntu-16.04-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi3.img Then it might something else if you are already using a 32-bit image. I will give it a quick run trough as well

Ah, see what the problem is. The content of boot partition on the Ubuntu image is slightly different compared to Raspbian, bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb bootcode.bin boot.scr cmdline.txt config.txt fixup_cd.dat fixup.dat fixup_db.dat fixup_x.dat initrd.img start_cd.elf start_db.elf start.elf sta…

So what could be the solution to this fault?, is it not possible to use mender-convert with ubuntu server? I’m testing with the following image: ubuntu-18.04.3-preinstalled-server-armhf+raspi3.img What do you suggest I can do?. Thank you very much.

[image] moises.valeo: So what could be the solution to this fault?, is it not possible to use mender-convert with ubuntu server? Current statement would be that Ubuntu server images are not supported by mender-convert. We have never tested those before and have primarily tested with Raspbian …

Hi mirzak, First of all, thank you very much for the proposed solutions. We still have problems converting from ubuntu image, the kernel.img file is not found in the ubuntu boot. Any solution you tell us will be welcome. Thank you, Greetings

Deployment of Ubuntu Server 16.04 on Raspberry Pi 3 B+

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mirzak September 10, 2019, 1:49pm 2

I believe this is the same problem reported in a different thread (see my comments there),

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