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I have the new Raspberry Pi 3 and trying to run Snappy on it. I know that there is a 100% compatibility between 2 and 3 but Sanppy fails to boot on 3 (rainbow screen no IO light flashing).

Has anyone tried running Snappy on 3?

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  • could be the SD card maybe, does it work in a pi2 (if you have one) – Havnar Mar 03 '16 at 11:28
  • Unfortunately I don't own a Pi 2. Could it be the CPU Arch difference (A7 vs A53)? – Khash Mar 03 '16 at 12:51
  • just a fyi. I got a Raspberry Pi 3 and gave it a tried it last night. It doesn't work. I was able to get Ubuntu MATE to work on Pi3 as an interim solution while I wait for the Snappy Ubuntu Core, but it was 8GB big. – dougo Apr 27 '16 at 16:21
  • update 05/16/2016 it doesnt work, ive just testet it. dd'd the image via rufus and win32 disk imager, both times stuck in rainbow screen like the author said. looks like the kernel image is missing, but i have no clue. im going to try ubuntu mate 16.04 now, i would rather use snappy. –  May 16 '16 at 16:49
  • Possible duplicate of Raspberry PI not booting Snappy Ubuntu Core – nu everest Apr 21 '17 at 20:42

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As of this time, the rpi3 is not supported by Snappy. Canonical engineers got the device at the same time as everyone else (and it's in demand!), and this takes some time. Currently only the rpi2 is supported (among other non-rp devices, of course).

Update as of 05/13/16: The rpi3 can actually run the rpi2 image now, but it's still 32-bit. Progress is being made on enabling 64-bit, but rpi didn't make that very easy.

Update as of 10/27/16: The rpi3 is officially supported along with the rpi2. Ubuntu Core 16 has reached release candidate, and images are available for all supported platforms.

Note that the rpi3 image is still 32-bit, though progress is being made on a 64-bit image.

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