Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B

From	Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject	Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B
Date	2020-12-31 18:28 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<slrnrus62s.dqg.jj@iridium.wf32df> (permalink)
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On 2020-12-31, Jan Panteltje <pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On a sunny day (Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:13:27 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Jim Jackson
><jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote in <slrnrupgq7.6qt.jj@iridium.wf32df>:
>
>>On 2020-12-30, Jan Panteltje <pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Just bought a PI4B 8 GB
>>> Unfortunately it does not run SDcard images from my older PI4,
>>> boot process hangs with something like 'use more modern software'.
>>> It runs OK with 2020-12-02-raspios-buster-armhf-full.zip (just downloaded from raspberry org)
>>>
>>> Web search talks about these 4B having a boot EEPROM..
>>> This is a problem as there is a year or more of work in the current images.
>>>
>>> Whats up?
>>
>>Put the sdcard back into the older pi4 and run update on the operating system.
>>
>>apt-get update
>>apt-get upgrade
>>
>>That should update the boot loader stuff and it should boot in the 8Gb Pi4
>>
>>I've done that before when upgrading Pi hardware.
>
> Thank you very much, that worked!

Glad to have helped.

> It added 1.6 GB software / updates too, just enough left of my 10 GB G4 on the last
> day of the month...

Ooooo... glad you were lucky there.

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is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B Jan Panteltje <pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-30 15:22 +0000
  Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2020-12-30 15:36 +0000
  Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2020-12-30 16:15 +0000
  Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2020-12-30 18:13 +0000
    Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B Jan Panteltje <pNaOnStPeAlMtje@yahoo.com> - 2020-12-31 09:59 +0000
      Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B Tauno Voipio <tauno.voipio@notused.fi.invalid> - 2020-12-31 16:03 +0200
      Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B A. Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> - 2020-12-31 14:44 +0000
      Re: is it posibe to disable boo tEEPROm in PI4B Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2020-12-31 18:28 +0000

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