Commit bf354e98 authored by Murukesh Mohanan's avatar Murukesh Mohanan

Typos in 2019-06-30-poking-pi.md

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Ah, yes! Like an idiot, I tried my default way of booting for system
installations: using an USB drive. And was greeted with a blank screen. I think
fiddled with the KVM switch, connecting everything to the Pi instead of the
switch, I even tried flashing the disk a couple of times. Finally I Googled and
I fiddled with the KVM switch at first, then tried connecting everything to the Pi instead of the
switch and I even tried flashing the disk a couple of times. Finally I Googled and
realized that a Pi does not boot from an USB drive unless [it has been
configured to do so][usb-boot] --- *by booting from a microSD card.* That meant
buying one, and waiting a couple of days for its arrival. Booting from the card
went fine: I finally saw the rainbow splash. (All told, it was about 6 weeks
since I bought the Pi that I first successfully booted it. Damn I'm lazy.)
since I bought the Pi that I first successfully booted it. Damn, I'm lazy.)
As I said before, Arch Linux itself worked pretty fine. I'd give it a Gold
rating (not Platinum), because I have a had the occasional kernel panics over
rating (not Platinum), because I have had the occasional kernel panics over
the past year, about once every couple of months or so. For the moment, I have
stuck the `panic=10` bandaid on it.
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