[arm-allstar] Won't Boot - tried all the usual stuff

Darrell Black gigahacker at gmail.com
Mon May 10 19:38:58 EDT 2021


If your using a GEN 2 PI 4 i think you need David’s beta version of HAMVOIP. As there has been a change to the PI’s bios that effects booting in ARCH.


Darrell - 73 de W8DSB

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> On May 10, 2021, at 19:31, Temporarily Offline via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
> No Joy.  That's in the instructions and it comes Much further down - they
> actually want you to do that from the pi running instead of before it boots.
> 
> Tried it on existing image and a fresh burn.
> 
> 
>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 5:21 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>> 
>> You intend to use this for a SHARI hat? Have you modified cmdline.txt as
>> instructed on the SHARI website? If so, there was (still may be) a
>> documentation error, in which there is an uppercase P instead of a lower
>> case p in cmdline.txt. If you haven't yet made this change, no idea.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5/10/2021 6:09 PM, "Temporarily Offline via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>> Hardware: Pi4 4GB, Latest Firmware
>>> 
>>> Working: I've downloaded the latest image, all the checksums match.
>>> 
>>> Broken: I've used etcher to burn the .img.xz and the .img also. Neither
>>> boot. The pi initializes and it goes to the rainbow screen after finding
>>> the SD card... or it doesn't make it to the rainbow screen.
>>> 
>>> Working: I've used etcher to burn the Raspbian image, boots fine
>>> 
>>> Working: I've used the Arch method to create an Arch SD card
>>> 
>>> Working? I've tried a 3a and 3.5am power supply both work with Raspbian
>> and
>>> Arch
>>> 
>>> Working:  I've used 2 different Sandisk branded SD cards to boot Rasbian
>>> 
>>> Working: I've used an RPi4-8GB model
>>> 
>>> I have gotten the image to boot once on 8GB model with 3.5a power supply,
>>> but that wasn't its intended home and needed to move it back.  I moved
>> the
>>> 3.5a power supply to the Pi4x4 and tried to boot it up bare (no Shari
>> hat)
>>> 
>>> I'm trying `dd` to burn the image now, but I'm not sure that will help.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> - TO
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