Re: RPI4 (8GB) + UEFI -> bricked?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Aug 21, 2021, at 1:06 PM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> On Aug 21, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:
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>> At this point, I interrupted it so I could go change the "3GB limit" setting.  After doing that, however, now it seems to not load our boot loader.
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>> I'm going to re-image the SD card and try again.
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> OK, well, re-imaging worked, but the problem happened again.  But I noticed if I waited long enough it would eventually work after displaying an error about no network connection (which is true; there isn't, yet :-)
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> I changed the boot order in UEFI settings, but it didn't seem to take.
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> Anyway, I'm going to try with the GPT-flavored image now to see if that one works.

Ok, the answer appears to be "the GPT flavored one doesn't work; the RPI firmware that is supposedly OK with booting from ESP doesn't actually like booting from ESP".

Also, changing the boot order in UEFI doesn't appear to stick.  I had to delete the PXE / HTTP boot options.

Now, on to getting USB boot (off my 1TB SSD) working.

-- thorpej