Gettin started with a Pi

The *status results are identical to those you posted.

All three of them, I only just added the third as an afterthought.

The *status results are identical to those you posted.

*status boot
?

*status boot = Boot. Yes.

Normally this option would be set by HForm in answer to the question “Do you want the disc to be Bootable” or some such.

If you said “No”, the option would be set to “Noboot”.

Easy mistake!

*status boot = Boot

That’s me out, then!

I do not recall how I set the USBstick when formatting it.
Is there a way to check it?
Is there a way to change it if it’s marked non bootable?
Or is that what *status boot does?

This seems the likely problem.

Press F12 type *cat
That will confirm what drive is being booted.
The text displayed should say Option 2
if not type *opt 4 2
and reboot.

*opt 4 2
That did it!
Thanks Chris and All.

Now to see about netsurf.
I wonder if *opt 4 2 would work on my wife???

No doubt I’ll be back. :)

*opt 4 2 That did it!

Hmm!! When I formatted the test SCSI drive I just accepted all the defaults which includes Y for bootable. I will add something to the procedure.

David, you may also wish to add to press F12 to get a command line, ShellCLI.

you may also wish to add to press F12 to get a command line, ShellCLI.

Done.

*opt 4 2 – That did it!

I thought of that and dismissed it, thinking of booting from 5¼" floppies on the BBC B – but, of course, it’s still there!

Why it was necessary, though, I don’t understand, as I had assumed it had been superseded by the status Boot options and was only of historical interest!

Certainly, when I attempted to duplicate David’s set-up, accepting the “drive bootable” option in HForm worked for me!

This set-up, though, of having a DOSFS medium for initial booting and a SCSI drive for the RISC OS boot becomes more and more wasteful as smaller cards, particularly the mini ones, become difficult to find.

It doesn’t seem sensible to use, say, an 8GB card to accommodate an initial RPi ROM boot sequence of perhaps 50MB maximum just to then use a SCSI pen drive for RISC OS boot & apps etcetera.

I am veering towards the all-on-one-card option now as 8GB seems to be the minimum one can find for the mini-SDcards, and 16GB is comparatively cheap.

Previously I used a 2 or 4GB SD card, but had the extra stuff on a USB pendrive under Fat32fs (don’t like that capitalisation!) for portability between RPi machines.

Now I’m mainly using my ARMv7 RPi 2 which takes the mini-SDcard directly, am amazed by the speed increase, and most things seem to work fine!

What a pity they’ve “upgraded” it (the RPi 2)!

So, my point is:

The advantage of the first option: One thing to back-up!

This set-up, though, of having a DOSFS medium for initial booting and a SCSI drive for the RISC OS boot becomes more and more wasteful as smaller cards, particularly the mini ones, become difficult to find.

Maplin 4GB £2.70

It doesn’t seem sensible to use, say, an 8GB card to accommodate an initial RPi ROM boot sequence of perhaps 50MB maximum just to then use a SCSI pen drive for RISC OS boot & apps etcetera.

Alternatively, a small price to pay for the benefits of the dual device method.

The reason I wrote up the procedure was as an easy way to get the (somewhat restricted) RPi3 up and running.

What a pity they’ve “upgraded” it (the RPi 2)!

One looks forward to the 64bit USB3 RPi4. The RPi1 has the advantage of an ARM5 mode, so the RPi2 was also a bad idea.

My RPi3 is up and running.

I don’t know how I managed to get NetSurf going as the first two attempts
resulted in segmentation faults when trying to start it. I did install the
!ZeroConf between the first and second attempts so maybe(?) that had
something to do with it. Anyway, after deleting the app, rebooting, and
reinstalling…..POP! there it was, and here I am posting with it. :-)

I guess I better spend some time reading docs and manuals now.

Just one thought/question on the previous several posts.
Would it be possible, using a USB to MicroSD adapter to move everything to a
mSD card? Just wondering?