Re: RPI4-4Gb Boot fails from SD card (both my build AND the official 14.3 build)

On Jul 27, 2025, at 10:39, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:

> Some more info in case it helps....
> 
> I rebooted the pi4 running freebsd into raspbian (on an sdcard) and see this:
> 
> # rpi-eeprom-config
> [all]
> BOOT_UART=0
> WAKE_ON_GPIO=1
> POWER_OFF_ON_HALT=0
> SDRAM_BANKLOW=3
> 
> [all]
> BOOT_ORDER=0xf41
> 
> # rpi-eeprom-update
> *** UPDATE AVAILABLE ***
> 
> Run "sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a" to install this update now.
> 
> To configure the bootloader update policy run "sudo raspi-config"
> 
> BOOTLOADER: update available
>    CURRENT: Tue Feb 11 05:00:13 PM UTC 2025 (1739293213)
>     LATEST: Thu Jul 17 08:26:45 AM UTC 2025 (1752740805)
>    RELEASE: latest (/usr/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader-2711/latest)
>             Use raspi-config to change the release.

FYI: "latest"for RELEASE means "latest Beta", also called
beta and stable by the RPi* folks.

The non-Beta is called "default", also called critical.

>   VL805_FW: Dedicated VL805 EEPROM
>      VL805: up to date
>    CURRENT: 000138c0
>     LATEST: 000138c0
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo | tail -3
> Revision        : c03111
> Serial          : 10000000eda244df
> Model           : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1
> 
> So this is a working setup and firmware version. I am not going to update it to the latest as something may break!
> 
> Note that 
>     https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/tree/master/firmware-2711/old/stable
> has all the images so you can experiment. My freebsd pi4 has pieeprom-2025-02-11.bin, while the raspbian pi4 is running the latest.
> 
> From freebsd:
> 
> # cksum /boot/efi/u-boot.bin
> 1050247439 630976 /boot/efi/u-boot.bin
> 
> Note sure where this came from. Probably some freebsd snapshot image.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com