Bug 30243

Summary: Mageia-8-rpi-aarch64 boot loops on Raspberry PI 400.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Alan Richter <arichter>
Component: Release (media or process)Assignee: Kernel and Drivers maintainers <kernel>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins, filip.komar, j.biernacki+mga, laidlaws, sysadmin-bugs
Version: 8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: aarch64   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/8/aarch64/install/images/
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Bug Blocks: 32166    

Description Alan Richter 2022-04-05 00:03:34 CEST 
Description of problem:
When booting the PI 400, a few kernel lines appear, the screen blanks and the boot starts over.  It's not possible to read the lines on the screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia 8 rpi aarch64 

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Obtain raspberry PI 400.
2. Generate SD card using dd or rpi-imager.
3. Insert card, power on RPI 400, watch it loop endlessly.

POP OS! works, as does Raspian on this device. 

The RPI 400 is a very common and popular platform, it should be supported.
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2022-04-05 00:43:32 CEST 
Just fyi, I have Mageia 8 working on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B using the aarch64
image, so it seems to be a pi 400 issue.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Dave Hodgins 2022-04-05 00:53:11 CEST 
Assigning to the kernel team

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Comment 3 Jybz 2023-08-11 15:38:04 CEST 
It might be a DTB issue.

CC: (none) => j.biernacki+mga

Jybz 2023-08-11 15:38:19 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 32166

Comment 4 Alan Richter 2023-08-11 16:58:54 CEST 
Are there aarc64 images for Mageia 9 yet?
Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2023-08-11 17:30:33 CEST 
No. There are gnome and "no desktop" from last April, such as on
http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/mageia/distrib/9/aarch64/install/images/

For now, best to start with an m8 install, and then upgrade.

One way of upgrading is to use "killall mgaapplet && mgaapplet --testing".
Comment 6 Alan Richter 2023-08-11 19:26:55 CEST 
Mageia 8 boot loops and doesn't work

Mageia 9 (cauldron) boots and comes up in multi-user mode but not in a graphic environment.  Neither the PI 400 keyboard or and external USB keyboard work on the device.  The NIC does work and sshd is listening but I do not know the password for the "live" user.  

Perhaps this ticket should be closed and a new one for the PI-400 peripherals should be opened. 

It's awfully nice to see Mageia on an arm device.
Comment 7 Dave Hodgins 2023-08-11 20:03:09 CEST 
I have m8 (plasma) running ok on an rpi 4b with 4GB ram.

The live user does not have a password, so just press enter.

I've tested m9 by upgrading from an m8 install, but that was months ago. Will
retest it soon.
Comment 8 Alan Richter 2023-08-11 20:37:48 CEST 
Sadly, I can't press enter since neither the PI-400 keyboard nor an external USB keyboard work, the only chance I have to get in is via ssh and when I try:

ssh live@<raspberry address>

I get back a password prompt that does not accept an empty password, thus I have no way to directly or indirectly interact with the system.
Filip Komar 2023-08-25 20:56:57 CEST

CC: (none) => filip.komar

Comment 9 Doug Laidlaw 2023-11-21 15:31:21 CET 
Adding myself to this bug. The error Alan gave fits me exactly, using the m8 images Dave mentions, using the one that was tested on the Wiki page.

CC: (none) => laidlaws