[arm-allstar] RPi 4B won't boot, LED pattern 'Unsupported board type'

[Larry Mollica]

That did it. Thanks Scott!
LM 


On Mar 31, 2022, at 5:40 PM, N4UPC via ARM-allstar arm-allstar-at-hamvoip.org wrote:

> Larry,
> 
> It is probably the 1.5 board version. For it to boot HamVoip, do the following:
> 
> 1) On an unused card, burn the latest Raspberry Pi OS to it and boot it up on your new Ras Pi 4B. You can either sftp or use a USB thumb drive to copy two files in the /boot directory: start4.elf and fixup4.dat
> 
> 2) Once you have these files, shut down the Ras Pi 4B board and remove the Ras Pi OS card.
> 
> 3) Boot your HamVoip card on your Ras Pi 3B board, go into the /boot directory and rename the existing start4.elf to orig-start4.elf and the fixup4.dat to orig-fixup4.dat. Copy the the two files from step 1 to the /boot directory.
> 
> 4) Shut down the Ras Pi 3B, move the card to your new Ras Pi 4B and it should boot up.
> 
> I can also email you the files if it would be better. Just let me know directly.
> 
> 73,
> Scott
> N4UPC
> HSH #: 11648
> 
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 18:07, Larry Mollica via ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> 
>> Got a brand new Raspberry Pi 4B 2GB from adafruit the other day. Trying to boot a fresh burn of hamvoip v1.6-14 but I can’t get it to go.
>> I’ve misplaced my micro-hdmi adapter, so I can’t see the console but the green LED flashes 4 long, 4 short.
>> 
>> This apparently means 'Unsupported board type’. ??
>> 
>> I can boot the same SD card in a Pi 3B and it comes right up no problem.
>> I can boot RasPBX on the Pi 4B and again, boots no problem.
>> 
>> It’s the hamvoip - Pi4 combination that fails. I’ve burned two different micro SD cards, one on windows, one on a mac. Same failure.
>> 
>> Any help appreciated.
>> Larry AD6G
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