Incompatible with newest Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 2 GB

[sftsk]

Hello, thank you so much for creating all of this!

Just wanted to finally give it a try and purchased a new Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately it won't boot with any of the images from the last release (Beta 6).

It displays this error when trying to boot:

start4.elf: is not compatible
This board requires newer software
Get the latest software from ...

Any idea what I could do? Are there any plans for releasing a new version/ beta soon?

[chiefwigms]

Duplicate to #331 - much of the reason for the image was to setup a wifi AP for the pi so that non-Z/Zymatic's could connect to it wirelessly. You could try to downgrade the firmware and flash, but I haven't tried (and don't really have much time)...

[tmack8001]

@sftsk thanks for flagging. I'm not sure if the issue reported earlier about building with pi-gen is the problem here or not. Though that said that isn't a great experience and we do intend for any RaspberryPi that has the right hardware (wireless) to be supported option in addition to any custom setup with custom configuration and DNS servers local resolving the right server info.

I'll see what I can do this week as I have a bit of time to dig in further from what has been investigated so far.

[tmack8001]

Interesting that we may be able to get away with the prior sha of pi-gen and simply do another sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade prior to finishing the image to update to the latest OS that would contain the latest firmware for the inhouse built chips that RaspberryPi organization is starting to use for newer boards (similar to the Pi400 model).

[tmack8001]

In the background today (effectively using my MacBook as a small heat exchanger in the office) I'm building a fresh image for testing @sftsk . When finished I will upload it and share a link with you to verify if it works for this new board you have. If so I can go ahead and make the other images to publish a beta7 release (been almost a year since our last) this would also make first boot faster as there wouldn't be a year of git file change to pull onto the file system over the network.

Stay tuned will take some time to build.

[sftsk]

Hello @tmack8001, thanks a lot for working on this so swiftly. Will give the new image a try as soon as I get the link :)

[tmack8001]

@sftsk go ahead and try the image I created https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G7OWGLi3kExJuEVktNH-i3WvmqDDng3d/view?usp=sharing

Unfortunately, I failed to update the image name so when viewing the http://raspberry/about page it will still self identify as beta6 😜 . Let me know if this fixes the issues you were seeing or get another error message, unfortunately I don't have a newer board to test with (same errors likely to be seen on a Pi Zero 2 board).

[sftsk]

I managed to boot!
All seems to be working so far (it is creating the PICOBREW) wifi, will let you know if I run into any trouble.

Amazing work 👏

[tmack8001]

The image I built for you @sftsk also has the appropriate packages for HDMI (desktop X11 and LXDE interfaces). Feel free to attach a monitor if you feel like it 🤪, was the image variant I last built so just issued a rebuild of it pulling in the latest firmware and rasbian release (Bullseye) into the image.

[sftsk]

Got it hooked up to a monitor and just playing around with everything 😄

[tmack8001]

@sftsk any issues arise today in setting things up?

[sftsk]

The setup seemed to work although my PicoBrew Z complained about not having access to the internet when connecting to the Pi every now and then. Could be that my wifi was overpowering the Pi wifi but will have to look into it with more time.
Will let you know when I have hopefully managed to run a brew!

[chiefwigms]

The setup seemed to work although my PicoBrew Z complained about not having access to the internet when connecting to the Pi every now and then. Could be that my wifi was overpowering the Pi wifi but will have to look into it with more time. Will let you know when I have hopefully managed to run a brew!

I highly recommend using Ethernet with the z/zymatic!

[sftsk]

@chiefwigms will that "just" work? does the Pi connect to the Z Series via Ethernet and share everything necessary?

[chiefwigms]

@chiefwigms will that "just" work? does the Pi connect to the Z Series via Ethernet and share everything necessary?

Yep!