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Naomi Pi 'WiPi Netbooter' - compatible with Pi 3&4

Is there a known issue with the RPi 3B+ and the version 6 of WiPi? I've created the image using multiple different MicroSD cards, I've tried multiple different power supplies just for the hell of it. I always get 4 slow blinks followed by 7 slow blinks, which typically indicates a problem with the boot partition. The boot partition is there in the image. I can see it and mount the volume. I can't try version 5 because the link is dead in the first post of this thread. I have been able to create a normal Debian image and successfully boot that, so I know the RPi board itself is still good. Any ideas?
 
Have you checked if the image is actually good?
This is the CRC of the one i'm succesfully using:
WiPi6-1-4.img BBB5FBDD (CRC32)
 
jhannafin said:
Is there a known issue with the RPi 3B+ and the version 6 of WiPi? I've created the image using multiple different MicroSD cards, I've tried multiple different power supplies just for the hell of it. I always get 4 slow blinks followed by 7 slow blinks, which typically indicates a problem with the boot partition. The boot partition is there in the image. I can see it and mount the volume. I can't try version 5 because the link is dead in the first post of this thread. I have been able to create a normal Debian image and successfully boot that, so I know the RPi board itself is still good. Any ideas?
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If your SD card is not truly 32GB, you might have issues writing the boot image correctly to the SD card. You can try this one I made to work around that (hosted on a friend's server so no need to worry about Google Drive etc.)

https://rou1.m3l.net/wipi_netbooter/
 
Yes, I have the correct file according to crc32.

As for the size of the SD card not truly being 32GB, I might just pop by Microcenter tomorrow and grab a bigger MicroSD card then. I don't have time tonight to try out the image you sent. I'll report back tomorrow morning no matter which route I take.
 
jhannafin said:
Yes, I have the correct file according to crc32.

As for the size of the SD card not truly being 32GB, I might just pop by Microcenter tomorrow and grab a bigger MicroSD card then. I don't have time tonight to try out the image you sent. I'll report back tomorrow morning no matter which route I take.
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Yeah the original image is based of a Sandisk Ultra 32GB SD card which has a nominal capacity of 31.8GB IIRC. Where as a lot of other cards out there are often closer to 31.2-31.6GB based on my experience. I wrote a whole thread about it here:

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Thread 'Improved WiPi Netbooter SD Card Image'

A flaw I noticed with the official 32GB SD card image for the WiPi Netbooter was that the SD card it was imaged from had a nominal capacity of 31.9GB. A lot of SD cards on the market that are sold at 32GB tend to have a slightly smaller capacity ranging from 31.5-31.8GB. The OS partition that runs the DietPi install gets cut off as a result when being written to a SD card, resulting in it not booting up. I have fixed this by doing some work to shrink both partitions, leaving some empty space at the end of the disk image (this also results in image file being smaller so it's less to...
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CamoYoshi said:
Yeah the original image is based of a Sandisk Ultra 32GB SD card which has a nominal capacity of 31.8GB IIRC. Where as a lot of other cards out there are often closer to 31.2-31.6GB based on my experience. I wrote a whole thread about it here:

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Thread 'Improved WiPi Netbooter SD Card Image'

A flaw I noticed with the official 32GB SD card image for the WiPi Netbooter was that the SD card it was imaged from had a nominal capacity of 31.9GB. A lot of SD cards on the market that are sold at 32GB tend to have a slightly smaller capacity ranging from 31.5-31.8GB. The OS partition that runs the DietPi install gets cut off as a result when being written to a SD card, resulting in it not booting up. I have fixed this by doing some work to shrink both partitions, leaving some empty space at the end of the disk image (this also results in image file being smaller so it's less to...
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Oh, well, I was using a SanDisk Ultra. But either way, Microcenter opens in an hour and a half. I'll go grab a 64GB card when I'm out running errands.
 
Yeah, it just doesn't actually work with the 3B+. Not sure why. While I was at Microcenter, I picked up a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. And the 64 GB card. The image flashed to a 64GB card still didn't work on the 3B+. Same card on the 4 worked just fine. I'll do some more testing on my 3B+ just to make sure it isn't defective, but I'm starting to wonder how much testing is actually done on the 3B+ and how much of the documentation is "this should work in theory".
 
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Yeah, it just doesn't actually work with the 3B+. Not sure why. While I was at Microcenter, I picked up a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B. And the 64 GB card. The image flashed to a 64GB card still didn't work on the 3B+. Same card on the 4 worked just fine. I'll do some more testing on my 3B+ just to make sure it isn't defective, but I'm starting to wonder how much testing is actually done on the 3B+ and how much of the documentation is "this should work in theory".
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I had issues with a pi 3b, no Wi-Fi would work, no matter what i did, tried multiple cards and burns. So i got a new pi and popped the sd in and away it went. then I tried the genuine raspberry os and that had Wi-Fi, on the original 3b, so it wasn't a faulty Pi.

Even thought the new Pi works well with wipi and have been using for 6 months, when i click the button to change Wi-Fi mode in Wipi, it loads an error, so i think something is broken in the current wipi image. So i just don't click that button.

someone has forked the image on git hub to current 64bit os, so you could try that.
 
I confirm what you say the large 32Gb image does not detect the network, I solved it by creating the 8Gb one then with Partition Wizard I moved the EXT4 partition to the end of the SD memory, extended the FAT32 partition and finally added the roms. I have not checked but I think it is not necessary to do the image mix, the files are the same.
 
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