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== My HDMI display doesn't turn on when I first boot == | == My HDMI display doesn't turn on when I first boot == |
Revision as of 06:05, 3 September 2020
According to the manual you can find a freedombox with e.g.:
$ nmap -p 80 --open -sV 10.1.1.0/24
According to the download page you can write a MicroSD image with e.g.:
$ xz -d freedombox.img.xz $ sudo chown jj5:disk /dev/sde $ dd bs=1M conv=fdatasync status=progress of=/dev/sde if=freedombox.img
Issues
These are some brief notes about issues I encountered while trying to get my first fbx installed and configured.
My HDMI display doesn't turn on when I first boot
That's normal. Don't wait for your HDMI display to come online. Rather, try to access your FreedomBox via its web interface at http://freedombox.local/
My FreedomBox stable/testing image won't boot
If you've followed the instructions on the download page and you can't boot off your MicroSD card (and/or disk utilities like GPartEd report a missing/corrupt partition table) make sure you didn't dd/cat the compressed .img.xz file to the MicroSD device and that you first extracted the .img file with xz -d
before writing it to your device (e.g. /dev/sde).
My FreedomBox nightly image isn't working
As at 3rd September 2020 the nightly images here hadn't been updated since 5th May 2020, so they were well out of date. I'm not sure if this problem is limited to a20-olinuxino-lime2 nightly builds, but best to stick with stable or testing builds instead (in the #freedombox IRC channel I was recommended to use stable).
My Pioneer FreedomBox from Olimex won't boot
Check that your MicroSD card actually has a valid operating system image on it. You can do this by pluging it into another system to examine its contents. If you have a blank MicroSD card that might be the problem!