Rocky 9 Test image for Raspberry Pi 3+4


This is the aarch64 Rocky 9 pre-release image to play with on your Raspberry Pi.

It goes without saying this software comes with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.  It's provided here as a convenience, and for the adventerous to test with.  It is NOT production-ready, and shouldn't be treated as such!



BASIC INFO:

This Raspberry Pi image works the same way as the Rocky 8 one.  Username is "rocky", password is "rockylinux", SSH is enabled by default for headless installs.

The image should be written to an SD card in the same way.





ENABLE PACKAGE INSTALLS:

The DNF "stg/rocky" change from this document will be necessary if you want to install packages:  https://bootstrap9.releng.rockylinux.org/Rocky9_Testing.txt






ENABLE WIFI:

Wifi is broken by default, due to something wrong with the raspberrypi firmware package we're using.

Here is a "quick fix" to enable it.  Execute the following commands as root:

########################

cd /lib/firmware
mv brcm brcm.bak
mkdir brcm
cp brcm.bak/*  brcm/
xz -d -k -v    brcm/*.xz

########################


Once these are done, a simple reboot will turn on wifi.  

If you don't want to do that, then running the following commands should turn on wifi without a reboot:  

rmmod brcmfmac;   modprobe brcmfmac


I know this is super inconvenient for wifi - it's being looked at!