Hi,
-----Original Message----- From: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com> Sent: 04 June 2020 10:14 To: Olav Reinert <seroton10@gmail.com>; opensuse-arm@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-arm] Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi 3 fails to boot in a weird way
Hi Olav,
On 04/06/2020 10:07, Olav Reinert wrote:
Hi all,
I want to run openSUSE Tumbleweed on a new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.
Using the aarch64 DVD Image (Snapshot 20200528) stored on a USB stick, I boot the Pi3 and go through the motions of installing the Server role onto a blank SD card in the mmc slot. The installation completes normally, except that it fails to reboot properly afterwards. (It hangs with a black screen showing just the mouse pointer, and the pointer still moves according to mouse movement.)
After powering down, removing the USB stick, and powering on, the Pi3 completely refuses to boot. It doesn't even show the "rainbow screen" before boot. Seems quite dead, actually.
If you don't see a rainbow screen, that means that the system is not able to find the bootcode.bin
Can you double check that the file is on your SD card?
Oddly, if I reinsert the USB stick with the installation image, the Pi3 boots just fine (and the system works fine, too). In fact, it boots straight into the installed Tumbleweed system, bypassing the Grub menu on the USB stick (you know, "Boot from harddisk", "Install", "Upgrade", etc.), which is also odd.
My take on this: It seems you changed the FW of the RPi3 to boot from USB and therefore it just does that. You will have to change that so that the FW expects the system to be found on a SD card.
No, there is no change to do. The firmware tries to boot from uSD card and will fallback to USB, if no firmware found on uSD. Cheers, Guillaume
Regards, Matthias
Can someone explain this behaviour? Is my Pi3 broken, or should I file a bug?
Is there a way to fix it so that my Pi3 boots without the USB stick?
Regards, Olav
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