Hello everyone, has someone of you been able to make an buster-mender-client? i mean from a clean image & not from a stretch to dist-upgrade into buster, i was also able to do that but this cant be used as a golden image. Thanks!

Hi @genedupre ! Do you mean taking a vanilla Raspbian buster .img and running mender-convert on it and make sure the Mender client works in the resulting converted image? This has indeed been tested, if you look under the “Test results” header. Did you try with latest 1.1.x of mender-convert? What…

He @eystein yes, a clean/fresh raspbian buster.img from the rapsbian website, but directly inside the mender-convert does not produce an working .sdimg for me, the artifact on the other hand does work fine. i’m using DEVICE_TYPE=“raspberrypi3” ARTIFACT_NAME=“2019-07-23-raspbian-buster-lite-clea…

OK! Can you elaborate a bit more on what you mean by “not working .sdimg” – how is it not working? Does it not boot at all, and if so, do you see anything during boot (e.g. rainbow screen, console output)?

Hello @eystein when i make an .sdimg with the commands mentioned above, that .sdimg simply does not start, no rainbow, no 4 raspberries, which probably means its not finding the boot, or working with it

Hi @genedupre , I tested latest buster (2019-07-10) myself now and I see the same problem. Converted image is at https://mender.s3.amazonaws.com/raspbian-images/2019-07-10-raspbian-buster-lite-mender-boot-issue.zip I created an issue report at https://tracker.mender.io/browse/MEN-2673 Can you try …

hi @eystein thanks you for the help! could i ask quickly why ‘some’ busters would work and why some wont? or even older OS’s like raspbian-jessie for that matter Has this to do with systemd? or kernels in general? As always thanks! quick update: i did the mender-convert on the 2019-06-20 buste…

Hi @genedupre , Thanks for testing! In general the problematic areas tend to be around the bootloader. For example, RPi uses a proprietary bootloader (which makes it really hard to integrate, as it’s basically a black box) so mender-convert switches to use UBoot. Mender needs to integrate with the …

[image] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ Raspbian [MEN-2673] - Mender and CFEngine (by Northern.tech) Jira @genedupre , please take a look at the updates in above. If you are able to test out the image have prepared it would be great.

Hello @mirzak i installed the first & second buster images from [MEN-2673] - Mender and CFEngine (by Northern.tech) Jira the first image, did not give hdmi output, but i also tried sudo vim /boot/config.txt #added these lines hdmi_force_hotplug=1 hdmi_drive=2 and this did also not work, so …

[image] Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+ Raspbian i also had a yellow output on one of my stretch pi’s, but was fixed by giving --storage-total-size-mb from 3600 to 7000 on the next convert, on a 7.4 gb sd-card I am not sure I follow, did you manage to get rid of the “yellow output”?

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