I'm really pleased to see that you're trying to integrate the RPi hardware support with Debian's packages. I'm especially impressed you've already rebased onto 3.18.5.

You just answered all my questions - before my Pi2 turns up

Thank you for your work!

Will this RPi2 support get upstream into Debian Jessie? That would be awesome.

Do you have scripts that generated the image, in case we wanted to reproduce it/add more packages?

Ben, I can't take the credit for it being based on 3.18.x already, the raspberry pi github was already 3.18.5 based so i just had to add those patches to the Debian kernel package and tweak it a tiny bit.

Nickolai, Debian Jessie is in hard freeze even if these packages were acceptable for Debian (which at least the kernel one is not imho), it is too late for Jessie. Hopefully for Stretch RPI2 will be supported out of the box.

Samat, No i didn't bother writing a script to generate the image. It's rather simple though:

• debootstrap a standard debian armhf chroot
• add the repository mentioned in the post and install the packages mentioned there
• add config.txt and cmdline.txt in /boot/firmware from the standard rpi image
• create an image file starting with a fat partition (and put the content from /boot/firmware on it) and an ex4 partition and put every else on it
• update etc/fstab to mount the two partitions on respectively /boot/firmware and /
• set a password for root (or alterntively create a new user with sudo rights and install sudo)
• done!

At some point this will probably get automated, but it wasn't important for me now.

Hi, is there a way to get the serial for the license key? I tried cat /proc/cpuinfo, but the command returned just "Serial : 0000000000000000". THX

Hi. Justed wanted to say thank you for this quick "up-and-running" solution! Nice work!

Can I use win32diskimager http://win32diskimager.sourceforge.net to install the image? Not sure how to flash a .gz image in a WIN8.1 ?

Unzip the .gz first? Then use the Win32Imager.

Great work, boots super fast, thx a lot!

Btw, does it include the videocore drivers for X or even better xwayland?

Hi, I wanted to thank you very much for this release. I got my Pi2 yesterday and for some reason official Ubuntu Snappy does not work for me apart from logging from console. So I searched around and downloaded your image and it works and it is PRETTY DAMN FAST!!! Thank you so much for it. I would love if this became a supported distro for Pi2!!!

Can you post your kernel source and config?

This image is corrupted. Root partition fails to mount.

WTF is bmap tools and what's the use for it? Can't you just create an image file?

Hey what's the userid and password?

The Debian contrib and non-free repos as well as the security repos should be in the apt sources configuration.

Hello, how to install it? I am unpacking it, writing image to sd with a Win32DiskImager and inserting into RPI2 but nothing is happening

Thanks a ton. I am in the process to get proview.se running on the rpi2 / Jessie ...

For everyone who had problems running it on the rp2 a simple solution is to use the bmap-tools to copy the image (as the author says) on the sd instead of any other programs. The procedure that worked for me was:

1. Download and extract the jessie-rpi2-20150202.img.gz to get an .img file
2. On any debian-based linux type "sudo apt-get install bmap-tools" and install it.
3. Then type "sudo bmaptool copy --nobmap 'yourlocation/jessie-rpi2.img' /dev/sdx" (Change yourlocation to the location of the .img file and sdx for the letter where the SD is mounted, if you don't know it type "sudo fdisk -l" and look for it).
4. Wait until it finishes and then put the SD on your rp2.

Actually this port is pretty damm fast, it seems a clearly replacement for our lovely Raspbian

My rpi2 shipped and now here's this

Thanks for your hard work!

Can't get Wifi to work.

I don't suppose there is a write up of what you did anywhere - I'd like to be able to do my own network install (with the mimimum number of packages). Plan on looking to see if I can adapt the raspbain network instal image or the raspbian installer when I get time. Thanks for showing it is possible.

My rpi2 arrived today and setting up debian was cake thanks to you. Much appreciated my friend!

Is there any way to install this onto an sd card via a windows PC? My guess is Win32DiskImager alone isn't enough for this?

Turns out you can get this running with just Win32DiskImager! You just need to unzip the .GZ archive and write the image to your sd card like you would with a normal raspbian distro. When you get to the command line just run apt-get install task-lxde-desktop to get a basic desktop running, it will take a long time to install. If the screen goes blank just press a key on your keyboard as the hdmi output of the pi loves to go idle.

After several downloads a few bouts of configuration pages you should get to a full fat desktop! You will then want to edit the config.txt in the /boot/firmware folder to disable overscan (then reboot) and you will also want to expand your primary partition to use all the space on your SD card or you won't have anything to spare:

http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/499/how-can-i-resize-my-root-partition

I know this all works because I'm writing from a Pi 2 with debian on it right now! I still need to get sound working but this is great, thanks to the OP!

Hello. Act led does not blink even with manual control.

Hey Vitali! About your wifi issue. You might need to install firmware for your usb wifi adapter. This worked for me:

Add Jessie repositories for contrib and non-free.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
apt-get update

Identify your hardware:

apt-get install usbutils
lsusb

My wifi showed up as realtek RTL8188CUS

Install firmware:

apt-get install firmware-realtek

If not sure, use a sledgehammer to crack a nut:

apt-get install firmware*

Configure the network

apt-get install wicd-curses
wicd-curses

Highlight your ssid and tap right-arrow. Enable "automatically connect to this network", enter the secret key and tap F10 to finish. Highlight wired networks and tap (uppercase) D to disconnect. Highlight your ssid again and tap Enter to connect. Tap Q to exit.

Check for a connection:

ping bbc.co.uk

Reboot to check persistence ie that interface comes up automatically.

You may wish to install ssh in order to run headless.

apt-get install ssh

Good luck - Chris

How is the performance compared to Raspbian, same? Is the tools to expand the partition to use the entire SD card included?

I don't suppose, that I can just use dist-upgrade the kernel after installation? I am thinking about security here - I like to always have the most up-to-date system.

I saw that that docker is already working!

But of course you need a base image... Do you think you could provide one? I think I don't know enough about basic Debian to pull that off myself...

Thanks for the great work! I used your experience as a basis for producing an Ubuntu 14.04 image. Details are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RaspberryPi .

Some observations:

• 3.18.7 applies nearly cleanly on top of 3.18.5 + BCM2709 patches, if you want to produce an updated kernel. My 3.18.0-14.15 kernel is based upon vivid's 3.18.0-14.15 kernel, which is based on 3.18.7.
• The firmware in the raspberrypi-firmware-nokernel package is ancient (relatively speaking) from December, and is probably causing some of the problems in the comments here. The activity LED not working is definitely one of them.
• I've adopted your change of putting the firmware in /boot/firmware. Hopefully that sticks, as it's a good idea.
• I've split raspberrypi-firmware-nokernel (previously binary bootloader firmware + binary userland utils in /opt/vc) into raspberrypi-firmware-nokernel (which now just has the firmware) and raspberrypi-vc (which compiles the userland utils / libraries from source and installs them "properly" in /usr).
• I've packaged xserver-xorg-video-fbturbo, for faster window move/scroll operations on the Raspberry Pi. The packaging is based on xserver-xorg-video-fbdev from trusty, but should be portable to jessie with little/no modification.

My packages are available at https://launchpad.net/~fo0bar/+archive/ubuntu/rpi2/+packages if you'd like to take a look.

Juan: If you're in the directory that you downloaded all 3 files to (and have "bmap-tools" installed -- as suggested using "apt-get install bmap-tools" on a Debian based system), the following command is enough:

sudo bmaptool copy jessie-rpi2-20150202.img.gz /dev/sdX

where sdX is your SD card's device (and you don't need the "sudo" if you're root already) of course.

Using bmaptool is really a time saver and it is pretty clever in discovering the *.bmap file and extracting the *.gz automagically prior to writing the image file to the SD card.

Hi all !

Great work ! I bmapped the image to a 16gb stick, booted the rpi, then did "apt-get install xbmc gnome"! Ran into space issues (the partitions are for a 4GB stick) so i resized the partition and the filesystem on the fly without rebooting and continued apt-get. So now i have a full xorg and gnome install.

However, on reboot GDM seems to start, but only presents a black screen, no login box or anything.

Any idea what could be the cause ?

Thanks for your great work, Cheers, Karl

Hi !

Thanks for the image, it provides lightning fast access to debian jessie on rpi2 !

However, it seems xbmc from debian repos does not work on rpi2, i get "XBMC needs hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering" error.

Any idea what to do ?

Cheers, Karl

Could you enable ssh by default?

Hey Sjoerd,

Great Image I got XFCE4 running with an USB sound card, but i want to use the sound plug on the Pi. Did you make any progress on that?

DenniZ

I installed this as my first raspberry OS and it works great. I have a gcc 4.9.2 development environment up and running. But now I want to enable the perfomance counter and for that I need to make a kernel module, I know little more than the guides on the web provide but to get things right, I need the kernel sources. Do I need the patched sources you built from, and in that case may I have them? I understand if you don't have an answer...

Anders, it looks like the kernel is packaged in the regular Debian way. To get the full kernel source, you can apt-get install linux-source-3.18, which puts a source tarball in /usr/src. To get just the headers (which usually suffices to build a kernel module), you can apt-get install linux-headers-3.18. That puts the headers in the place where they're found by the usual module-building process.

You have done a very good job!I now have been working with it some days. But is there a Descrption how to get the Act-Led still working without building a new SD-image ? ? What has to be updated on the SD-image ? What files ? I think noone needs to use the bitmap-tools. To copy the 3M-image bit by bit took me about 10 Minutes with Rasbian and my RPI-2. you than can expand the image with fdisk or Gparted. I installed the mate-desktop-environment together with lightDM and it seems to be perfect for this image on RPI-2. Jessie with mate-desktop seems to be something faster than Ubuntu 14.04 with XFCE so I will stay at Jessie with Mate. I managed to install the Chromium-Webbrowser 37.xxx together with the Pepperflashplayer-Plugin an it also runs perfect. I refered to this link here:

http://blog.valitov.me/2014/06/installing-google-chromium-on-arm.html?m=1

many greetings

Klaus

Just FYI folks incase you were thick like me and missed it -- the config for /boot/config.txt has been moved to /boot/firmware/config.txt

So don't make a /boot/config.txt, it will be ignored, but do edit /boot/firmware/config.txt. Saved me a lot of trouble once all of that clicked in.

Did you manage to get OpenGL running? I'm trying to get Kodi to run to no avail.

in now could manage to get the newest firmware and ACT led is working. For a quick solution I installes andrew Hessets udate script which is in Rasbian and can be started with "rpi-update" To install the script please type or copy this commands in a terminal

If not installed already install git :

root@jessie-rpi:~# apt-get install git

root@jessie-rpi:~# wget https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update -O /usr/bin/rpi-update && sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/rpi-update

root@jessie-rpi:~# sudo rpi-update

Now the script has written the new files to ./boot directory but we need them under .boot/firmware

you have to move now all new files from ./boot to ./boot/firmware. The old files there have to be replaced with the new ones. If done so make a reboot.

Now the act-led should blink again.

Later we should update Andrews script for us with the right download directory.

many regards

Klaus

Sorry, please remove "sudo" out of this commands.

Hi Jeff, thanks for the pointers. Installing the headers using apt-get was not possible. But I got the source instead, unpacked it, ran make modules_prepare and pointed the makefile to the kernel source root. I can now build a kernel module that I can force feed the kernel with modprobe -f, I am close to success...

There are some things still missing in this image.

First you need the alsa-utils:

apt-get install alsa-utils

Configure the output to go to 3,5mm jack:

amixer cset numid=3 1

Than load modprobe:

modprobe snd_bcm2835

If all is done you should have sound on 3,5mm jack.

If you want sound on hdmi outut:

amixer cset numid=3 2

This modprobe and others should be loaded already at boot. Configuration should be possible at ./etc/modprobe.d Maybe one can refer to the already existing settings at Rasbian.

on initial boot... after apt-get update && apt-get upgrade...

Setting up initramfs-tools (0.119) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.119) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 Unsupported platform. run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1 dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- Is this to be expected ?

root@jessie-rpi:~# apt-get install linux-headers-3.18 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-all-armhf' for regex 'linux-headers-3.18' Note, selecting 'linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2' for regex 'linux-headers-3.18' Note, selecting 'linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-all' for regex 'linux-headers-3.18' Note, selecting 'linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-common' for regex 'linux-headers-3.18' Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 : Depends: linux-kbuild-3.18 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. ---seems trying to install headers does not work as previously stated?

To load the soundmodule at boot time you should edit the soundmodule to modules.conf in ./etc/modules-load.de

There you can add one line for any kernel module you want to load at boot time. For soundmodule add :

snd_bcm2835

Don't forget to install alsa-utils

and switch output to 3,5mm jack with "amixer cset numid=3 1" or to hdmi with "amixer cset numid=3 2"

I encountered the same problem as Spencer above. Everything worked fine until I did an apt-get update & upgrade after which I got the same error messages as above. Not sure what to do about this. Everything worked beautifully before.

Paul

I ran into the same problem as above when upgrading the image. The short term problem is that flash-kernel 3.33 does not recognize the RPI2.

A temporary fix is to hold back flash-kernel to 3.31 until 3.33 is fixed. Do "apt-mark hold flash-kernel" before you upgrade. After it is fixed you can lift the hold with "apt-mark unhold flash-kernel"

Steve

root@jessie-rpi:~# apt-cache policy flash-kernel
flash-kernel:
  Installed: 3.33
  Candidate: 3.33
  Version table:
 *** 3.33 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.31~exp.1co1+b3 0
        500 https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/ jessie/rpi2 armhf Packages

It seems that flash-kernel gets updated to main version instead of the collabora one. You can downgrade (and hold), but it might be useful to pin the collabora repo to a high enough priority. Someone might post a helpful file.

You can have the Hexxeh rpi-update tool update a different directory with BOOT_PATH and ROOT_PATH environment variables. They default to / and /boot, so I should just be able to set them to / and /boot/firmware right?

Also I wasn't able to get OC working on this image. My Pi refused to go any faster than 800Mhz.

For those having issues with upgrading due to flash-kernel, the flash-kernel package in the collabora repositories has been rebased on the version in jessie which should solve the problem

Thanks and also "dankjewel" I guess!?

Paul

What is the difference between Debian Jessie and Raspbian Jessie (get it by taking Raspbian Wheezy and change sources.lst to jessie), other than the fact that Raspbian delivers rpi specific packages already? I'm using Raspbian Jessie for two weeks now and it seems to have all the same package versions just like Debian Jessie. I'm running on an "old" Pi B, however (fully headless, too, so no GUI related stuff whatsoever installed). I'm thinking of getting a RPi2, will there be any benefit of using Debian Jessie instead of Raspbian Jessie?

Hi !

I just upgraded firmware and still xbmc from debian repos will not run due to missing OpenGL support. What i do not understand is that in the debian xbmc source makefile it automatically uses opengles compile parameters on ARM platforms, so it seems its actually compiled the right way.

This guy has working kodi on debian jessie on rpi2: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=101831

I installed it and it just works. Its version 14.1 so its newer than jessies 13.2 but he seems not to want to disclose how he did it. I would really prefer a straight debian install like we discuss here, with just kernel and a few other packages not from the repos, if we could just get xbmc/kodi running....

Cheers, Karl

Is there a way to get EGL working (e.g. for clutter or qtquick based things to work)? There is libraspberrypi0 package, but it seems most libraries pull in and use Mesa, which leads to failure starting anything.

Example hello worlds:

$ qml -qt5 test4.qml 
libEGL warning: GLX/DRI2 is not supported
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate
Unable to find an X11 visual which matches EGL config 77
Could not initialize OpenGL
Aborted

$ ./testclutter.py 
libEGL warning: GLX/DRI2 is not supported
libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to authenticate

(testclutter.py:6885): Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to eglMakeCurrent with no surface
Segmentation fault

U-boot has RPi2 support since a while. Would you update to 3.19 with Mesa(anholt's implementation)?

After trying for ages to compile kodi on rpi2 i finally found a different way to get what i want:

http://karl.kashofer.org/2015/03/19/debian-jessie-xfce-and-kodi-on-rpi2/

This now seems to work, Cheers, Karl

If you're having trouble installing linux-kbuild-3.18, it's in the experimental release of debian. Just add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main

Then run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -t experimental install linux-kbuild-3.18

and you should be good to go.

For (my) reference, I have been able to successfully run outofthebox omxplayer (omxplayer_0.3.6~git20150319~7c752d3_armhf.deb) after installing the following :

libraspberrypi0:armhf 1.20141219-1~nokernel1.co1+b3
libraspberrypi-bin:armhf 1.20141219-1~nokernel1.co1+b3
(and of course the omxplayer dependency)

gpu_mem=192

I wonder when the latest firmware that supports gpu_mem_1024 is going to be released on the repository ? Working great !

Thanks, Thomas.

I had the same Problem, that overclocking did not work after installing debian jessie.

This can be fixed by setting:

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/cpufreq/scaling_governor

echo ondemand > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/cpufreq/scaling_governor

in /etc/rc.local

I think for those of trying to run Kodi I have a solution.

You'll need to follow the usual instructions for install deb-multimedia's repos:

Add the keys:

wget http://www.deb-multimedia.org/pool/main/d/deb-multimedia-keyring/deb-multimedia-keyring_2014.2_all.deb

dpkg -i deb-multimedia-keyring_2014.2_all.deb

Add the repository:

http://www.deb-multimedia.org/debian-m

Update:

apt-get update

Install kodi:

apt-get install kodi kodi-bin kodi-standalone

Build a launch script:

$ nano kodi.sh

!/bin/sh

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib:/opt/kodi /usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin

Save it and run it. It seems to work fine.

Just be warned you'll need to have the additional raspberry pi stuff from the collabora repository: I didn't have them installed on my image and apt-get couldn't find them, so I had to wget and install manually...

SSH keys are included in the image, which is insecure. It means that anyone can who has access to your network can impersonate your specific Raspberry Pi, which is one of the things that SSH is designed to prevent.

As a workaround, users can remove the existing keys:

sudo rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key*

And then regenerate their own unique keys:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server

If you've ssh'd to your Raspberry Pi previously, you'll get a warning or error about the key having been changed. On your client machine, remove the entries in ~/.ssh/known_hosts listing your Raspberry Pi's old key to rectify this.

Thanks for your work and building an Image based on Debian jessie.

i've recreated my own Repository and added some packages for my own system. so u can also this repo. http://debian.gunah.eu/debian/ i've provid also a new version of flash-kernel (with your patch), because i got an issue with "Unsupported Platform".

About the Problem of some user with the serial of the raspberry pi, i've used the original raspbian to find it out.

Could you update the collabora-repo version once again?

Merci, Robert

Hi All! Please help me! Im rooky jessie-rpi login: ?

How do I get rid of the initramfs-update error message after each apt-get run?

The flash-kernel script doesn't work. You must manually copy (as root) the kernel to the proper location.

user@rpi:~# cp /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 /boot/firmware/kernel7.img

To install the linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 package, you have a dependency on the virtual package linux- kbuild - 3.18. This package come from experimental Debian repositories. You must add them to the end of sources.list file and adjust the priority of those repositories.

user@rpi:~# echo "# Debian Exp\
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free\
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
user@rpi:~# cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/preferences.d/experimental
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 80
EOF

To illustrate, here is my sources.list :

user@rpi:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# Repo spécifique RaspPi2 (ARMV7 armhf)
deb https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian jessie rpi2

# Debian repo
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Exp
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free

And my /etc/apt/preferences.d/ directory:

user@rpi:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/collabora
Package: *
Pin: origin repositories.collabora.co.uk
Pin-Priority: 600
user@rpi:~# cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/experimental
Package: *
Pin: release a=experimental
Pin-Priority: 80

I hope it could be useful for other ...

I'm the founder of SolydXK. I've used your image as a base for SolydX RPI2. I hope you don't mind.

You can see my post (with download link to the ISO) here: http://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=5457

Hello, how to install a flash plugins with this optimized version of Debian Jessie for Raspberry Pi2 thank you for your answer

Append the following to /etc/flash-kernel/db to make it work with the updated flash-kernel version:

Machine: Raspberry pi 2 Model B
Machine: BCM2709
Kernel-Flavors: rpi2
Boot-Kernel-Path: /boot/firmware/kernel7.img

do not add deb-multimedia.org,

pardon my giant text but I had to do it to be heard over the last guy. it's not safe, see what support says about it: http://ircbots.debian.net/factoids/factoid.php?key=dmm

sjoerd, the version of flash-kernel in jessie overtook the version in your repo. please bumb the version. for now I will use apt pinning as a work around.

root@jessie-rpi:~# apt-cache policy flash-kernel flash-kernel: Installed: 3.35 Candidate: 3.35 Version table: * 3.35 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main armhf Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.33.co1+b1 0 500 https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/ jessie/rpi2 armhf Packages

I have downloaded the Debian image from https://images.collabora.co.uk/rpi2/ and am very impressed with the way it my webserver. On my RPI2's I also have the Raspberry Pi camera module which work perfectly under Raspian but I do not know what is needed or the steps to make it work under this pure Debian environment. I would be very grateful if someone could explain the steps required to get it working. Ultimately I want to steam video to a web page (not using VLC) in html. Regards Chris Bussey

small image, but include the essentials like dhcp and ssh.

Perfect for my needs.

Very nice effort, i hope to see this integrated into Debian soon. Kudos.

My notes say you can get the camera working (at least in some way) by adding the line start_x=1 to config.txt (see note about location above). Then you can load the module bcm2835-v4l2.

What toolchain did you use for crosscompiling the kernel?

Hi,

many, many thanks for this image! I'm using it since one week and like it very much.

After installing the image, I've done some changes that I like to share with you here. Thanks to shawn for his help with this notes.

ENLARGE THE SECOND PARTITION ON THE SDCARD AFTER DDING THE IMAGE
for example using gparted

CHANGE ROOTS PASSWORD
'passwd'
follow instructions

CHANGE HOSTNAME (see also https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/ChangeHostname)
'grep -R jessie-rpi /etc/*' check which files you need to edit
'vi /etc/hostname' edit the hostname in /etc/hostname
'vi /etc/hosts' edit the hostname in /etc/hosts
'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' reconfigure exim4
'reboot' reboots the system

PREVENT PACKAGE FLASH-KERNEL UPDATING FROM OFFICIAL REPO WITH APT PINNING
'touch /etc/apt/preferences.d/flash-kernel' create a new file
'vi /etc/apt/preferences.d/flash-kernel' edit it an add the following lines to it:
Package: flash-kernel
Pin: origin repositories.collabora.co.uk
Pin-Priority: 1000
'apt-cache policy flash-kernel' check if the package is pinned

GENERATE NEW SSH KEYS (from http://sjoerd.luon.net/posts/2015/02/debian-jessie-on-rpi2/#comment-4c4e1defb59a765819781eddc928fd6d)
'rm /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key*' remove the old ones
'dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server' create new ones

RECONFIGURE LOCALES AND TIMEZONE
'dpkg-reconfigure locales'
'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata'

ACTIVATE ADDITIONAL REPOS
'vi /etc/apt/sources.list' open editor and add the following:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

NOW YOU CAN SAFELY UPDATE THE SYSTEM
'apt-get update'
'apt-get upgrade'

Hej Sjoerd! Great work with this jessie image.

I've instaled it without problem. But when I try to configure the keyboard to my localization, it does not work.

I do: dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration and all is ok. But when I finished, there were two warnings about some "invoke-rc deprecated mode" (or similar) and the keyboard arrangement didn't change.

After this I tried service keyboard-setup start but nothing happens: I get stucked in English keyboard, and it is a mess to keep track of many symbols.

What can I do!? TIA

To everybody asking me how to use vi: you can use another editor like nano as well. It should be preinstalled. If not, run 'apt-get install nano'.

Hi

I tested the image in various ways (I mean various burn image & boot) and it hangs after some time up (some hours). For the symptomps seems more a software lock than a hardware issue, as in all cases I'm able to ping the Pi and even TCP-connect via SSH (but not getting prompt), even serial console don't show me the login prompt.

On my first install, I upgraded packages and reconfigured some settings so I supossed I made some mistake/error (as the settings were from wheezy/sysvinit) which made the system unable to work as expected.

But on my second try, I simply wrote the image to the SD and booted the pi2, leaving it up for some hours, so no changes/upgrades of flash-kernel done on the image, nothing no changes.

I left some sessions logged (via serial and via SSH) and wait to things happen.

After some hours I found that the load is starting to increase (3, 5, 7 and up to 10 when finnally got fully unresponsive). During that I tried to check for top/dmesg output but that commands hang simply sitting down there, although other commands (free, ps, ..) work. (ps doens't show any process eating too much CPU).

As I still had access (when load was below 10), I preferred to reboot and start again to monitor the issue, but voilà:

root@tessa:~# reboot

Failed to start reboot.target: Connection timed out

Broadcast message from root@tessa on pts/1 (Thu 2015-05-21 08:27:49 UTC):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

root@tessa:/var/log# uptime 08:51:47 up 11:39, 1 user, load average: 10.00, 10.02, 9.46

May be new systemd feature ??

Is very strange, as no one reported issues here, but I'm sure is not a Hardware issue as the same image worked correctly using raspbian Wheezy.

Any clues or any one having similar issues ?

Thanks

Hi, thanks for this great tutorial and image, it all works perfectly for me. With one exception: After I apt-get install xfce4, I got

Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2
Unsupported platform.
run-parts: /etc/initramfs/post-update.d//flash-kernel exited with return code 1
dpkg: error processing package initramfs-tools (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 initramfs-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I used the method suggested by BoN_Lth, which is manually copying /boot/vmlinuz-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 to /boot/firmware/kernel7.img.

I've got flash-kernel pinned at the Collabora repository and its current version is 3.35.co1+b1.

Any way to fix this? Is copying the kernel to /boot/firmware/kernel7.img all that the flash-kernel package does?

Seems the GPG keys for the collabora repository have expired (from apt-get update)

Reading package lists... Done W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

W: Failed to fetch https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

Hello,

First I must say, very good job. I've had no problems at all with that image on my new RPI2. All things I need for my project are working as expected. Thanks a lot for that.

I just want to update the PI with apt-get update ... It says ERR https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/

And at the end:

W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

May be something wrong with the keyring?

Hi !

Would it be possible to enable usbip in your kernel build ?

karl@fernseher-rpi:~$ zcat /proc/config.gz |grep USBIP

CONFIG_USBIP_CORE is not set

I would really need that to share a printer. Thanks, Karl

I had plenty of KEYEXPIRED errors during apt-get update. I found out that the Collabora key for apt expired.

$ apt-key list
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/collabora-obs-archive-keyring.gpg
--------------------------------------------------------
pub   2048R/B5FBB289 2013-05-09 [expired: 2015-06-01]
uid                  Collabora OBS Automatic Signing Key <example@example.com>

I'm pretty bad when it comes to apt and security, I failed miserably with gpg and apt-key usual commands. In the end, I downloaded and installed manually the latest keyring package from Collabora. It may not be the right way to do it, but it works like a charm now.

$ wget https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/pool/rpi2/c/collabora-obs-archive-keyring/collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb
$ dpkg -i collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb
$ apt-get update

Hope this helps

Just wanted to report this is still working after updating to 8.1 (with flash-kernel pinned as above).

Only issue is the apt key for your repo has expired (and is registered to an @example.com email address!)... Could these be updated/signed properly please?

Thanks

Sadly running 'apt-get update' now results in:

KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

Any chance you could take a look at this on the repo?

Thanks!

Turns out the resolution for the key issue I posted above is:

wget https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/pool/rpi2/c/collabora-obs-archive-keyring/collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb dpkg -i collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb

Issue resolved - woop!

There is a mismatch in the repository about the version of flash-kernel (at least). The one actually present is much more recent that the one advertised in the list.

Hope it helps.

Seems there is a problem in one of the default sources:

Reading package lists... Done W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

W: Failed to fetch https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease

Seems there is a problem in one of the default sources:

Reading package lists... Done W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

W: Failed to fetch https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease

Hi,

doing an apt-update it complains about invalid signatures and expired keys:

W: An error occurred during the signature verification. 
The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. 
GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: 
The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 
KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 
KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

I tried to get new keys but I do not know where to get them. Using 'apt-key net-update' didn't work. I have the impression that those keys turned invalid only few days before...

Could you please help me to get valid keys for: repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease

Thanks in advance, Foka

I've been using the image and updating it without issue since February. Recently on running apt-get update I've been getting an error with the repository as follows:

---

Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main armhf Packages Hit http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en Get:1 https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease Get:2 https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease [2,707 B] Err https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease

Fetched 2,707 B in 19s (140 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repositories.collabora.co.uk jessie InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817 KEYEXPIRED 1401577200 KEYEXPIRED 1433150817

W: Failed to fetch https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/dists/jessie/InRelease

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

---

Any assistance would be appreciated.

How do we get a new key for apt-get? The current key expired. Thanks.

I was looking for a good linux distro to use my RPI2 as a server, but all the other ones are bloated, or don't have good sources. All I had to do was use rufus to burn this to my MicroSD card, pop it in to my RPI2, and SSH into it. I changed the sources to the standard jessie list, ran apt-get update, then upgrade, now I have a surprisingly fast, cheap, mini server. ProFTPd-basic is super fast and awesome. Nginx and php5-fpm run flawlessly. And I can use it as an RTMP server too. So much value for the $. Thanks for the distro.

Hi, Thx your very much for your work, it is very quit and simple to install (bmaptools is really fast)

Still, i have a little problem. I need raspi-config, in order to activate SPI, and to connect a 4DS 32 LCD screen.

Where can i find this tool ? is there a new way to configure this raspbian ? Thx

Hi, thanks a lot for your good work!

I tried to compile modules and found the hint of including the experimental repo (http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main). Nevertheless, this repo currently (2015-07-10) DOES NOT contain linux-kbuild-3.18. It contains 4.1 packages, but also lacking the kbuild.

Does anybody know how to get the corresponding kernel build 3.18 or do I really have to compile my own kernel?

Best regards! Flosen

I've just installed my second RPI2 with current image jessie-rpi2-20150705.img.gz on the weekend. I saw that "trusted=yes" is set on Sjoerd's repository in /etc/apt/sources.list. I strongly recommend to remove this setting. I've already emailed Sjoerd about this. He will generate a fresh image. Thank you in adavance

@ SPI

you can install raspi-config from the rasbian repos but I have no idea why one should need it. You can change and add things you want by changing the config.txt file without using raspi-config.

To install raspi-config :

wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config/raspi-config_20121028_all.deb wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lua5.1/lua5.1_5.1.5-4_armel.deb wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/triggerhappy/triggerhappy_0.3.4-2_armel.deb dpkg -i triggerhappy_0.3.4-2_armel.deb dpkg -i lua5.1_5.1.5-4_armel.deb dpkg -i raspi-config_20121028_all.deb

greetings

Klaus

If I intend to keep kernel and firmware up-to-date by the means of rpi-update script, is it safe and/or recommended to remove flash-kernel package (and maybe some other, like linux-image)? I just updated to kernel 4.0.8 using rpi-update and I'm a bit worried that if eventually an updated version of the linux-image package is added to the Collabora repo, my kernel might get overwritten... Not a newb to linux, but certainly a newb to Raspberry Pi

Hey, thanks for the Jessie, but I can't boot the Pi 2 up with it. Whenever I write the image to the card (Transcend 16GB UHS-I) and put it in the RPi, the boot process gets block errors and evenutaly freezes execution. I've tried like 6 times. Wheezy sometimes did the same, but booted up after a try or 2. The PSU is 2A@5V, have three of the same for my three RPI2's which all run normally. I swapped them, the problem remained.

Hello;

First of all thank you for the work which you supplied!

I tried to install Java 6 by downloading of it opt the file supplied on the site of oracle to see link below: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/downloads/javase/default-1934076.html

Then in the terminal I banged these commands

• root@jessie-rpi:/opt# tar -zxvf *.gz
• root@jessie-rpi:/opt# ls ejre* COPYRIGHT README THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt bin javaws lib plugin
• root@jessie-rpi:/opt# cd ejre*
• root@jessie-rpi:/opt/ejre1.6.0_38# ./bin/java -version -bash: ./bin/java: No such file or directory

I have this error which appears and I do not manage to go farther ! Is it possible to install this version of Java ?

( Sorry for my English) Thank you

Thanks for creating this image! Now I have a minimal base configuration of the official ARM port of Debian (with your Pi-friendly kernel+firmware) for configuring a home server.

To change keyboard layout need 2 steps:

apt-get install keyboard-configuration console-setup

Then configure it

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

Enjoy!

Just to make sure everyone is able to execute the script from chrisaw (thanks chris!) to fix the expired key issue:

wget https://repositories.collabora.co.uk/debian/pool/rpi2/c/collabora-obs-archive-keyring/collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb

dpkg -i collabora-obs-archive-keyring_0.5+b1_all.deb

Hello all, I just run the jessie-rpi2-20150705 every works fine except the I2C.

So I install i2c-tools and launch "i2cdetect -y 1" which indicate: Error: Could not open file /dev/i2c-1' or/dev/i2c/1': No such file or directory And yes the i2c device files not exist ;-0, if i understand this is due to the device tree system used in this kernel?

lsmod give me: snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c 1675 0 snd_soc_pcm512x 6887 1 snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c snd_soc_tas5713 5120 0 snd_soc_wm8804 7271 0 regmap_spi 1688 1 snd_soc_wm8804 regmap_i2c 2344 3 snd_soc_wm8804,snd_soc_pcm512x_i2c,snd_soc_tas5713 snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s 6683 0 regmap_mmio 3114 1 snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s snd_soc_core 149142 4 snd_soc_pcm512x,snd_soc_wm8804,snd_soc_tas5713,snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s snd_compress 11286 1 snd_soc_core snd_pcm_dmaengine 3327 1 snd_soc_core snd_pcm 75180 3 snd_soc_wm8804,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm_dmaengine snd_timer 17555 1 snd_pcm snd 51458 4 snd_soc_core,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_compress i2c_bcm2708 4700 0 spi_bcm2708 6014 0

I try some parameters in /boot/firmware/config.txt (according to https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=675658#p675658): - 'device_tree=' to disable device tree and no effect - idem no effect with 'dtparam=i2c_arm=on' and 'dtparam=i2c1=on'

Please is someone know if there are a way to disable device tree with this image or make i2c working please?

Thanks Ghis

I've installed the image and plugged the network cable : no link lights ? Is it expected or I need to connect the RPI2 to a monitor and login first to install the network ?

Not a lot of luck compiling my driver modules against this.

To quote:

Package linux-kbuild-3.18 is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'linux-kbuild-3.18' has no installation candidate

:'(

I, too, need raspi-config, to enable the camera. Where to find it?

The image boots, but eth0 comes up with IPV6 only. I tried to follow the instructions from here https://wiki.debian.org/DebianIPv6#How_to_turn_off_IPv6 and IPV6 went off, but how to make IPV4 work? Even if I configure the eth0 interface with a fixed address, it still fails to interface with my LAN

glad to have a version of jessie that doesn't come from upgrading raspbian. would prefer to start fresh with a clean, minimal build.

I use your image since some time and was enjoying a Debian 8.1 after updating. Howeever, is it also possible to use Debian 8.1 installation images instead your image and its repository? And if yes, how can i get my RPi2B running directly from the Debian 8.1 Jessie repo tools? How do i make a bootable image?

I use your image since some time and was enjoying a Debian 8.1 after updating. Howeever, is it also possible to use Debian 8.1 installation images instead your image and its repository? And if yes, how can i get my RPi2B running directly from the Debian 8.1 Jessie repo tools? How do i make a bootable image?

I use your image since some time and was enjoying a Debian 8.1 after updating. Howeever, is it also possible to use Debian 8.1 installation images instead your image and its repository? And if yes, how can i get my RPi2B running directly from the Debian 8.1 Jessie repo tools? How do i make a bootable image?

Thank you for the Debian port. I was getting tired of trying to find my way around in Raspbian. This is much better and very fast.

I did everything in the comments. and still cannot install linux headers. It appears that linux-kbuild-3.18 is not int the experimental repository anymore.

root@raspberry:/usr/src# apt install linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-3.18.0-trunk-rpi2 : Depends: linux-kbuild-3.18 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Hi, CHERRIER Sylvain

To enable SPI:

• probably first do as described in comment41 above (install rpi-update, and update)

• then, follow the advice in /boot/firmware/overlays/README, and add
  "dtparam=spi=on" to the /boot/firmware/config.txt file

• reboot.

Now (at least on my Raspbian Pi 2) the spi_bcm2835 module is loaded. Just tried the 'simple SPI' from http://www.100randomtasks.com/simple-spi-on-raspberry-pi and I can at least see the SPI SCLK signal.

Thank you and Thanks to the posters/comments this page has such a wealth of information

Thank you all

Thanks for your hard work on this image! I freshly flashed the image on a UHS-I MicroSD card and am having MMC read/write errors on boot like described here, so I'm unable to boot. In the linked thread, it was recently discovered that firmware update would solve these problems. Would it be possible to have an update image again?

Hello and thanks for this kernel. It is possible to use the max_usb_current flag with this kernel?

Which is the standard user/ password? pi/raspberry does not work for me.

Has anyone figured out a way to switch from ext4 to btrfs on / ?

How would I bypass a forgotten root Password

There is a newer package (version 3.46) in the debian unstable repositories. Does it include your additions ?

I would like to ask whether it is planned to update the kernel from version 3.18 to version 4.1 or newer? In jessie-backports repository is already available version linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.2 and linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1:

https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/kernel/linux-image-4.1.0-0.bpo.2-armmp https://packages.debian.org/jessie-backports/kernel/linux-image-4.2.0-0.bpo.1-armmp

Many thanks in advance for reply. Have a nice day,

Marek

I just ran into the same issue. The image is using systemd-timesyncd for time synchronization. Yet, I couldn't find out what's causing the problem, as systemd-timesyncd is running and seems to be confgured properly.

Uninstall the irqbalance package. It doesn't balance the interrupts and just leaks memory.

Downloaded, extracted and put on SD. SD put into Raspberry, booted up and smiled

It works, thanks !

thanks for the image 20150705.img working fine here.

I would like to disable all snd modules - because I dont need sound at all. I tried to use the blacklisting method but this does not seem to work...config.txt dtparam=audio=0 also does not seem to work - still all snd modules loaded.

ps. was unable to boot using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dktrkranz/rpi2-build-image/master/rpi2-build-image.sh - maybe someone can give it a try

Hi,

Raspbian Jessie Lite - the Minimal image based on Debian Jessie on official RPi site ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ ) looks like our image here.

Did anyone compare the official image and the one of this site? Sjoerd what do you think?

Regards, Murat TA1DB

So I have installed and created a static network address then run the update and upgrade. once that occurs I can no longer resolve any DNS addresses.

None of the usual fixes work, this is crazy anyone know why?

TA1DB, this is a blog post about getting "Debian" on a raspberry pi.

The thing you are confused about, is you think this is a blog post about getting "Jessie" on a raspberry pi

Raspbian is not Debian.

Thanks a lot for providing this really nice guide, I was able to use my pi2 with jessie in no time.

A few additions:

To get rid of systemd, this link provides all the details: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation

Basically all you need to do is to put the usual network stuff to /etc/network/interfaces and then

apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab
reboot
apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

To get system time right:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
apt-get install ntp

I also added max_usb_current=1 to /boot/firmware/config.txt, so the PI gives enough power to an external USB Hard Drive.

Thanks a lot for providing this really nice guide, I was able to use my pi2 with jessie in no time.

A few additions:

To get rid of systemd, this link provides all the details: http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation

Basically all you need to do is to put the usual network stuff to /etc/network/interfaces and then

apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
cp /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab /etc/inittab
reboot
apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: release *\nPin-Priority: -1' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd

To get system time right:

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
apt-get install ntp

I also added max_usb_current=1 to /boot/firmware/config.txt, so the PI gives enough power to an external USB Hard Drive.

HI!

we can define the environment variable BOOT_PATCH ?

In the file boot/firmware/config.txt is what to replace and uncomment #arm_freq=800 by arm_freq=900 ?

THANK YOU

HI!

we can define the environment variable BOOT_PATCH ?

In the file boot/firmware/config.txt is what to replace and uncomment #arm_freq=800 by arm_freq=900 ?

THANK YOU

I'm using the rpi2 as a server with two usb-drives configured as raid1. Now somewhere in the boot process occures are a race, which i cannot diagnose further. The symptom is, that the drives are not assembled during boot, but a later 'systemctl restart mdadm-raid' succeeds. Problem is, that the drives cannot automatically be mounted via /etc/fstab under this conditions. As a workaround, I added 'rootdelay=5' to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt.

I solved the "time sync problem" a few weeks ago: It has been a hardware issue for me. I thought it had to be a timesync issue because my Pi was pingable but not reacting to https and ssh anymore (http wasn't active). As I posted before, systemd-timesync was configured properly. When I tried getting help on IRC, someone suggested to check hardware related stuff. He was right

I appreciate to hear comments and/or test results if anybody already tested or plan to use this excellent debootstrap on the new RPi 3. Does it work good as it does on RPi 2? What differs?