Current image does not boot on RPi B+ Hardware

[rnorris7756]

I'm having some trouble getting berryterminal to work on the newer B+ hardware model. When I place a (known working/tested on model B) MicroSD card in the B+, the activity light on the B+ will flicker momentarily and then go out, leaving only the power light on.

I have been attempting to build a new image myself from the source here and the latest RPi firmware to see if that fixes the issue, but some errors with crosstool have been stopping my build before it completes.

[rnorris7756]

It seems that the issues I had with compiling berryterminal from source stemmed from being on a 64-bit system. I've since managed to set up a 32-bit VM and recompile berryterminal from source. I can confirm that bulding from source will fix the issue with the B+ not booting.

Since the image on the berryterminal site has not been updated, I will leave this issue open for maxnet to close once that is updated and leave steps for compiling from source here so that visitors with the same issue can do the same.

For compilation, I used an Ubuntu Server 12.04 (32-bit) virtual machine. Install the required packages with: sudo apt-get install bison build-essential flex git gettext libncurses5-dev subversion texinfo unzip
Clone the source: git clone https://github.com/maxnet/berryterminal.git
Run the build script: cd berryterminal && ./build.sh

A note about my build process: this went off mostly without a hitch. One package failed to download from Sourceforge (squashfs4.2), but downloading the .tar.gz manually and placing it in the berryterminal/buildroot/dl folder fixed that problem.