Booting Alpine Linux on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-07-07

In our project for a client we are using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, along with a custom compute module carrier board (called the PCCB – Pi Control Carrier Board) which provides RS485, CAN, RS232, LAN, USB and a step-down for input voltages of 6 – 24 V. (If you are interested in customized hardware…

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Alpine 3.9.0 initramfs init changes

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-02-02

Alpine 3.9.0 ships a new version of the init script in it’s initramfs. left: Alpine 3.9.0, right: Alpine 3.8.2 There are a number of interesting changes: better and earlier networking support for the boot process, with an additional kernel parameter for cmdline.txt: BOOTIF, allowing you to specify the device interface you want to use for…

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Alpine boot process on the Raspberry Pi

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-01-10

Today we will have a look at the Alpine Linux boot process on a Raspberry Pi in some detail. The picture shows the contents of a “virgin” SD card with the Alpine image, which has not been booted yet. This picture shows the contents of the boot folder. Initial boot Stages on the Raspberry Pi…

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Crystal & Alpine on the Raspberry Pi

By Maximilian Batz | 2018-12-21

Bringing together two interesting technologies: Alpine Linux – a small-size and security oriented Linux distribution Crystal – a compiled language with a nice syntax (similar to Ruby) on the Raspberry Pi (armhf / ARMv6, which would also support the Pi Zero W) is not possible currently, as of 21.12.2018. There is no (at least no…

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