RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

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RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

Postby alucard » Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:54 pm

Hi ^^
I did an update today and the system no longer boots. The previous update was about a week ago ...
It doesn't seem to get to linux, at least the boot messages don't seem to originate from linux to me so probably the bootloader is broken?
Since it complains about an unrecognized FS I did a fsck on the vfat boot partition, which is fine and mountable.
The btrfs root partition is also fine.
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Re: RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

Postby alucard » Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:03 pm

Just copied over /boot from my second rpi4 and it boots again, so not a hardware problem ...

But after that I don't have wifi, ifconfig -a only shows the loopback device..
EDIT: which makes sense because of module version mismatch *sigh*

EDIT2: just reinstalling linux-aarch64-5.10.9-1-aarch64.pkg.tar.xz breaks boot again, so maybe it is the kernel after all :/
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Re: RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

Postby msa » Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:57 pm

Something broke my raspberry pi3 running aarch64 too. It was stuck at the rainbow splash screen so I figured it was bootloader-related.

I reverted uboot-raspberrypi (back to 2020.07-2) -- and the box booted.

Now my pi3 has got work to do. I can investigate a bit more later. But I suspect whoever upgraded uboot is already on the case.
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Re: RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

Postby msa » Tue Jan 26, 2021 5:24 am

For what it's worth: I re-upgraded uboot-raspberrypi-2021.01-1 today and noticed that pacman left a boot.scr.pacnew file.

Replacing my custom boot.scr with boot.scr.pacnew allowed my rpi3 to boot again. I took the new boot.txt file from the package, folded my custom kernel command line changes, ran ./mkscr, and I was good to go again.
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Re: RPI4 aarch64 - update broke boot

Postby hotaru » Mon Feb 01, 2021 4:35 am

looks like I'm running into the same bug as msa, but replacing boot.scr with boot.scr.pacnew doesn't fix it on my Pi 4. with uboot-raspberrypi 2021.01-1, it just hangs at the rainbow splash screen. 2020.07-2 works.
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