AFAIK the Chihiro Type-3 can't net-boot without one
- Thread starter twistedsymphony
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bobbydilley
Grand Master
@twistedsymphony Phew thank you, was getting very worried I just bought a very expensive pile of junk!
winteriscoming
Champion
I agree about the Chihiro Type 3 behavior. If the board is set to netboot mode and no key chip is present, it will very quickly give an error message on the boot screen rather than indicating it is waiting for network. That has been my experience.
bobbydilley
Grand Master
Could this be added to the original post. It sort of suggests that it would work - maybe a sentence about a type 3 requiring the zero key would be good?
DONE.
There have been enough headaches and confusion with people trying to save $10 and not buy one that I just took out the whole "optional" language in the Zero Key section. If you don't know what you're doing or how the Net DIMM setup works just assume you need a Zero Key PERIOD. Because there is a very narrow path you need to take to be in the situation where you can get away with out using one, it's not worth trying to explain that to people.
Thanks!
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lol
Here is a working image for Chihiro.
https://www.arcade-projects.com/for...ing-and-cf-on-naomi-chihiro-and-triforc.6611/
https://www.arcade-projects.com/for...ing-and-cf-on-naomi-chihiro-and-triforc.6611/
muramasatheninja
New User
Ok so I spent a lot of time on this and figure I would throw it out here. Short version is this does NOT work on the Pi3b+.
So I bought a Pi3b+ to try this out. Originally I thought I would flash the sd card and be off and running. I flashed the sd card and found that the pi refused to boot. I came here and found werejag's comment about replacing the boot files. So I went ahead and replaced the start_cd.elf, stard_db.elf, start_x.elf, and start.elf and that let the system boot. However the Pi3b+ has a new network chipset as well as a different wifi chipset so none of the networking comes up. I even went so far as to load the image into a virtual machine and see if I could update the underlying os but was unsuccessful. I went ahead and ordered a Pi3b and it worked as simply as I originally thought it would. So until there is an update everyone should avoid the pi3b+ for now (unless I'm missing something which is entirely possible).
ya it doesnt just the 3b
mathewbeall
Champion
Pretty sure you need to install the scripts and such that drive the board - otherwise it just sits there.
Thanks ill do the scripts.
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jassin000
I can make you a image of my SD card if you are having trouble, should be set just to run with a copy of the image.
That would be AMAZING!
That was my second opinion, i was just tryna see if there was some made ones out there for sale.
