On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 10:14 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> 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?

You didn't say where I'm supposed to find it, but I assume it's meant
to be in the boot partition (i.e., the first vfat partition)? This is
what it looks like:

# mount -o ro /dev/sdn1 /mnt
# ls -R /mnt
/mnt:
EFI

/mnt/EFI:
BOOT

/mnt/EFI/BOOT:
BOOTAA64.EFI  grub.cfg




> 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.

Like I said, it's a brand new RPi3, and I didn't do anything with it
except try to install Tumbleweed. In fact, I never did anything with
the firmware on any on my Raspberry Pis, because so far I never had to.

Can you give me a hint on how to change the FW so that it boots from
the SD card?


> > Can someone explain this behaviour? Is my Pi3 broken, or should I
> > file a bug?

It's still not clear to me whether this is a bug in the Tumbleweed
installer, or a problem with my Pi3.

Regards,
Olav

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