Zeroshell 3.9.3A on Raspberry pi 3B+

[M]

I tried to install version 3.9.3A on raspberry pi 3B + without success.
After flashing on microsd the operating system does not start (I tried with version 3.9.1A and it works).
Anyone help me?
Thanks.

[Jean-christophe L.]

Hi M,
the file “cmdline.txt” inside the FAT partition of the raspberry 3.9.3A image are corrupted.
To solve the problem, you have to create a new file named “cmdline2.txt” at the same level of the corrupted “cmdline.txt”. Copy this text inside the “cmdline2.txt” :
root=HD=ZS-A7E25B3C_3.9.3A_1 rootwait panic=10 loglevel=0 elevator=noop dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 quiet
Rename “cmdline.txt” to “cmdline3.txt” and finally rename “cmdline2.txt” to “cmdline.txt”.

The raspberry should start normally with this new “cmdline.txt”.

Bye.
Jean-Christophe

[Daniele Testa]

Something else must also be wrong, because it does not work for me. I could see that the cmdline.txt was corrupt with something that looked like a binary file. I replaced it with the contents that you provided. I have a Raspberry Pi 3+ and it gets stuck with the large “rainbow box” at boot.

Further, I can say that all works fine with Rasbian on the same device and same SD-card, so I know that all hardware is OK.

As a side-note, I find it VERY strange that the official image does not get fixed if the corrupted cmdline.txt is a known issue??

UPDATE: I got it working by replacing all .dtd and .elf files with working versions from Rasbian. It’s pretty obvious that this official release needs to be fixed!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Daniele Testa.

[Daniele Testa]

I spoke too soon. USB is not working at all, so no keyboard or USB Ethernet adapters.
Also seems like it does not have correct firmware for the built-in WiFi adapter. I believe it’s the same as on the Zero W model.

Btw, I have a Raspberry Pi 3A+, not 3B+ like the original poster.

[Jean-christophe L.]

My config is a Raspberry 3B so the native firmware of the 3.9.3A is the right one :-).

The FAT partition (/dev/mmcblk0p1) of the 3.9.3A image is corrupt so a linux fsck need to be done from the zeroshell prompt :
fsck /dev/mmcblk0p1 -V

A chkdsk with a Windows workstation should also works but i didn’t test this.

[Magnus Hallback]

Is Zeroshell maintained by someone anymore?
It seems strange that a corrupted image is not fixed by the maintainer since it was released?

[M]

Hi All,
Fixed by copying the “cmdline.txt” file from version 3.9.0A to 3.9.3A (the file is corrupt in version 3.9.3A).
Thanks!

[obiwan974]

hi all.

personnally the file wasn’t corrupted and i could install and bootup the distro from img directly.

testing it now but it seems promising. good job for the dev.

Thanks

[obiwan974]

Ha the corrupt file issue happened one time… So it seems it’s a bit random or dependent on the way used to flash SD card? I’m playing between windows and linux so i can’t remember what’s i’ve used 1st time…

Rebuild the file fix the problem.

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