I tried the newest XFCE Raspberry Pi 4 images for openSUSE Leap 15.2 and
Tumbleweed. Both are extremely slow to start. I did not have enough patience
for Leap 15.2 to see it finish with a log screen, so abandoned that test and
continued with the test of Tumbleweed.
There are several error messages during the boot process to explain why it
takes so long, but even loading the final linux image takes minutes.
Below is what I did catch during the start of the boot process:
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U-Boot 2020.04 (Aug 09 2020 - 19:41:12 +0000)
DRAM: 3.9 GiB
RPI 4 Model B (0xc03112)
MMC: mmcnr@7e300000: 1, emmc2@7e340000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default
environment
In: serial
Out: vidconsole
Err: vidconsole
Net: eth0: ethernet@7d580000
PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
starting USB...
Bus xhci_pci: Register 5000420 NbrPorts 5
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
scanning bus xhci_pci for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:3...
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootaa64.efi
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
Card did not respond to voltage select!
Scanning disk mm...@7e300000.blk...
Disk mm...@7e300000.blk not ready
Scanning disk em...@7e340000.blk...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
Found 4 disks
BootOrder not defined
EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image
1382256 bytes read in 108 ms (12.2 MiB/s)
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
Welcome to GRUB!
Please press 't' to show the boot menu on this console
error: file `/boot/grub2/locale/nl.gmo' not found.
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This is the first reboot after the initial boot of the system and after making
some configuration changes in that system. O.a. the default language to be
nl_NL.
I needed at least 30 minutes to get to the GRUB screen. It looks as if the
clock is very slow. On the GRUB screen 10s appeared, which is the initial
count down time, but this time is very slowly decreasing. About 5 minutes per
second. The USB keyboard does nothing. I finally tried the keyboard on the
serial port which started loading the openSUSE image.
After 2 hours I got the login screen of XFCE.
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