On 04/06/2020 11:39, Olav Reinert wrote:
> 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:
Yes, you are right.
>
> # mount -o ro /dev/sdn1 /mnt
> # ls -R /mnt
> /mnt:
> EFI
>
> /mnt/EFI:
> BOOT
>
> /mnt/EFI/BOOT:
> BOOTAA64.EFI grub.cfg
>
That looks like a problem of the installer then, because it does not install the
firmware and DTB files we need to boot.
@Guillaume, what do you think?
Regards,
Matthias
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