Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by glyn.hudson on Sat, 07/02/2015 - 07:03

Hi guys,

I'm looking to upgrade the current low write emoncms prebuilt SD card image (emonSD-13-08-14.img.zip https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/blob/bufferedwrite/docs/setup.md) to work with the Raspberry Pi 2. Once tested I will release a new compatible image to download.

I have not yet tested this but it should just be a case of updating the Kernel:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods

I'll give it a test on Monday, if anyone is already up and running with the new Pi, please let me know.

As posted by: http://lifehacker.com/easily-update-your-raspbian-sd-cards-for-the-pi-2-with-1684229012

Re: Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by pb66 on Sat, 07/02/2015 - 11:38.

Hi Glyn

Although I haven't tried it with the pre-built image, I have been playing with a Pi 2B and there doesn't appear to be any other incomparability once you are using the latest raspbian OS version, so it makes perfect sense for any pre-Pi 2B images to run ok on the Pi 2B following the extended update & upgrade procedure.

Anyone owning a previous Pi can update thier own image prior to moving it to the Pi B2 to retain settings and data etc (back-up before updating) but any new users getting the Pi 2B as their first Pi will indeed need a revised image for it to initially boot.

Paul

Re: Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by truzzman on Sun, 08/02/2015 - 14:54.

I tried the upgrade but as results some "not enough space" errors...

Re: Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by pb66 on Sun, 08/02/2015 - 15:15.

You will need to increase the size of the second partition and to do that you will need to move the third partition, see RaspB+ and SD card Extend

Paul

Re: Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by glyn.hudson on Thu, 12/02/2015 - 16:46.

I've ran the update to bring in support for the RaspberryPi 2. The new SD image can be downloaded in a few min from: http://files.openenergymonitor.org/emonSD-12-02-15.img.zip or

UK Mirror 2: http://openenergymonitor.org/files/emonSD-12-02-15.img.zip

I also took the opportunity to update emonHub to support the new RFM69Pi module. Here's the change log:

emonSD12-02-15.img

* Update emonHub to latest 'Development' branch to add support from new RFM69Pi module (auto detect 9600/38400 baud and RSSI handling) Git: a9760494ef3ebac9f8661314fab2c0ed48a48736

* Resize /home/pi/data parition to 252Mb then increase root parition to 3.4Gb to make space for dist upgrade

* Enable firmware and distro to support new Raspberry Pi 2

   apt-get update && upgrade
   apt-get dist-upgrade
   rpi-update
* Test support for Edimax WIFI

* Change host name raspberrypi > emonbase

If you have a chance do you think you could test the new image on a Raspberry Pi 2 before I make it public and post any bugs here. Thanks.

Re: Using Pre-Built SD card image with Raspberry Pi 2

Submitted by glyn.hudson on Tue, 17/02/2015 - 10:08.

I've started a new thread for this new SD card here: http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/node/10163

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