Re: unable to boot latest 14-stable

void <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 12 Oct 2023, at 06:20, Mark Millard wrote:
> If you still have access to the loader vintage
> from before that msdosfs update, you could put
> just that one file back and see what happens.
> (This would cross check on if other msdosfs
> content was somehow involved.)

I do have access to it, if by "loader vintage" you mean 
the old contents of the msdos partition. I can't install the 
old bootaa64.efi right just yet because the machine is busy, 
but here's a comparison in the meantime:

old material
############

drwxr-xr-x   5 root wheel  1.0K 11 Oct 10:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x  27 root wheel  1.0K 14 Oct 02:19 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.8K 12 May  2022 armstub8-gic.bin*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.8K 12 May  2022 armstub8.bin*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   26K  3 Mar  2021 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   28K  3 Mar  2021 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   28K  3 Mar  2021 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   48K  3 Mar  2021 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   51K  3 Mar  2021 bootcode.bin*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  220B 17 Nov  2022 config.txt*
drwxr-xr-x   8 root wheel  512B 12 May  2022 dtb/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root wheel  512B 12 May  2022 efi/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.1K  3 Mar  2021 fixup_cd.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10K  3 Mar  2021 fixup_db.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10K  3 Mar  2021 fixup_x.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  7.1K  3 Mar  2021 fixup.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.3K  3 Mar  2021 fixup4.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.1K  3 Mar  2021 fixup4cd.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  8.3K  3 Mar  2021 fixup4db.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  8.3K  3 Mar  2021 fixup4x.dat*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  1.6K  3 Mar  2021 LICENCE.broadcom*
drwxr-xr-x   2 root wheel  512B 12 May  2022 overlays/
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  240B 12 May  2022 README*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  775K  3 Mar  2021 start_cd.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  4.6M  3 Mar  2021 start_db.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.5M  3 Mar  2021 start_x.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.8M  3 Mar  2021 start.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.1M  3 Mar  2021 start4.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  775K  3 Mar  2021 start4cd.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.5M  3 Mar  2021 start4db.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.8M  3 Mar  2021 start4x.elf*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  556K 12 May  2022 u-boot.bin*

###

strings start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD
VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 12:10:40
VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Feb 25 2021
VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2
VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot
VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux
VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 564e5f9b852b23a330b1764bcf0b2d022a20afd0 (clean)

###

/rpi4-efi-backup/efi/boot # ls

total 1288
drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel  512B 12 May  2022 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root wheel  512B 12 May  2022 ../
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel  1.2M 12 May  2022 bootaa64.efi*

############################################

new material
############

# pwd
/boot/efi

# ls -lah
total 22857
drwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   16K Dec 31  1979 .
drwxr-xr-x  15 root wheel   50B Oct 10 21:02 ..
drwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   16K Oct  6 09:54 EFI
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  1.6K Apr  5  2023 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  240B Oct  6 06:02 README
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.8K Oct  6 06:11 armstub8-gic.bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.8K Oct  6 06:11 armstub8.bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   30K Apr  5  2023 bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   32K Apr  5  2023 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   31K Apr  5  2023 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   30K Apr  5  2023 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   51K Apr  5  2023 bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   51K Apr  5  2023 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  220B Oct 11 10:31 config.txt
drwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   16K Oct  6 09:54 dtb
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  7.1K Apr  5  2023 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  5.3K Apr  5  2023 fixup4.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.1K Apr  5  2023 fixup4cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  8.2K Apr  5  2023 fixup4db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  8.2K Apr  5  2023 fixup4x.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.1K Apr  5  2023 fixup_cd.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10K Apr  5  2023 fixup_db.dat
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   10K Apr  5  2023 fixup_x.dat
drwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   16K Oct  6 09:54 overlays
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.8M Apr  5  2023 start.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.1M Apr  5  2023 start4.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  787K Apr  5  2023 start4cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.6M Apr  5  2023 start4db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  2.9M Apr  5  2023 start4x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  787K Apr  5  2023 start_cd.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  4.6M Apr  5  2023 start_db.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  3.5M Apr  5  2023 start_x.elf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel  613K Oct  6 06:02 u-boot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root wheel   88B Dec 29  1979 ubootefi.var

# strings start4.elf | grep VC_BUILD
VC_BUILD_ID_USER: dom
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: 10:50:39
VC_BUILD_ID_VARIANT: start
VC_BUILD_ID_TIME: Mar 17 2023
VC_BUILD_ID_BRANCH: bcm2711_2
VC_BUILD_ID_HOSTNAME: buildbot
VC_BUILD_ID_PLATFORM: raspberrypi_linux
VC_BUILD_ID_VERSION: 82f3750a65fadae9a38077e3c2e217ad158c8d54 (clean)

# ls -lah EFI/BOOT
total 880
drwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel   16K Oct  6 09:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel   16K Oct  6 09:54 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel  839K Oct  6 08:21 bootaa64.efi
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