I’m using a Rasp pi 3 and I’m trying to setup Ubuntu Mate 16.04.2 on it (obvisouly I’m using the Pi 3 ARM version of the distro). Each of the installation steps (wizard) run fine but when the system finally reboot I can see the very first line being something like ‘Failed to start… load kernel modules’. Everything after that is in the green but then splashscreen appears and screen flip over to a black screen and voila pi is stuck in the dark
There is obviously nothing I can change as I cannot even start the distro so I was wondering if I’m the only one in that situation and if not what would be the best course of action to fix that?
‘Failed to start… load kernel modules’ is normal, at least I get that too and my pi boots fine. It might be worth while to checkout the syslog on your pi’s sdcard @ /var/log/syslog
Hi Meticulus, thanks for the feedback. I'd love to have a look to the logs but there is nothing there, actually here's a list of all the files on the SD Card:
I think the root partition is ext3 - but I’m not familiar with macs.
It could be read by almost any linux system.
I feel you may, if the system is running, but merely ‘invisible’, be able to get to a command prompt to further investigate.
I cannot think how to do it (CTRL-ALT-F1?)
Derek
I am not familiar with mac’s either. There must be some way to mount ext4 partitions on a mac so that you can see the contents of that partition. So you can check out the log and see why it doesn’t boot. Perhaps something like this?
Hi again, actually I’ve tried another tool for flashing the sd on mac which is ApplePi-Baker and this is now working
Just in case it’s worth noting that I also performed the installation without setting up the internet connexion so all was done offline but it’s now working thanks a lot for your support!
