arm240_start.elf broken?

[DeadWalkingDeath]

I cannot boot with arm240_start.elf, the others work fine.

What caught my attention is the different filesize:
arm128_start.elf 2465.904 kb
arm192_start.elf 2465.904 kb
arm224_start.elf 2465.904 kb
arm240_start.elf 642.192 kb

Thanks for looking into this!

[popcornmix]

It should be smaller, it is build with fewer libraries.

[DeadWalkingDeath]

Ok, but to me it seems like arm240_start.elf is broken anyway.
I tried again yesterday after a complete rpi-update and the the Pi wouldn't boot.
Renaming the arm224 file on the sd card will make it boot again.

Seems like I'm not the only one with this problem. (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8725&start=25)

[popcornmix]

Do you have rotated display?

[DeadWalkingDeath]

No, I have no display connected at all.

[w-flo]

Same problem.

~6 hours ago I used rpi-update, which froze and caused a freeze for any other program when doing SD card access (happens a lot for me), so I pulled the plug. I then fixed the SD card using my laptop, fsck and rpi-update in offline mode. It still wouldn't boot, so I connected my TV to the raspi and noticed that it just stopped at the rainbow screen.

I double checked that /root/.rpi_firmware/arm240_start.elf and /boot/start.elf have matching md5 sums, and also compared md5 sums for bootcode.bin, loader.bin and kernel.img, and they all matched.
"git status" in /root/.rpi_firmware said "working directory clean", so I suspect the files in that directory were not corrupt (happened a few times before because of the way I have to shutdown my pi when it freezes during rpi-update).

Then I copied arm224_start.elf to start.elf and now my pi works again.

[w-flo]

Booting with latest arm240_start.elf works fine for me, so the problem appears to be solved.

[popcornmix]

Can you do a test for me.
Can you add boot_delay=0 to config.txt and see it it still works.
If that breaks it, can you add:
boot_delay=0
boot_delay_ms=100
and confirm if that works. Ideally find the smallest boot_delay_ms= that allows it to work.

[Hexxeh]

Is that not going to be a little different for different SD cards?

On 15 September 2012 15:39, popcornmix [email protected] wrote:

Can you do a test for me.
Can you add boot_delay=0 to config.txt and see it it still works.
If that breaks it, can you add:
boot_delay=0
boot_delay_ms=100
and confirm if that works. Ideally find the smallest boot_delay_ms= that
allows it to work.

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[popcornmix]

Yes. But as I don't see the problem I need some information. Possibly 1ms is enough for everyone. Maybe it's 100ms or 1000ms.

[w-flo]

boot_delay=0 works for me (simple "reboot" command, and also unplugging the pi for a few minutes, then plugging it in again).
Using current arm240_start.elf (md5: 1e2f1bc121c86ec99c235855cbce7159).

[DeadWalkingDeath]

I finally had time to test the new arm240_start.elf and I can confirm that it boots now without problems.
I didn't add boot_delay or boot_delay_ms to config.txt.