MMM Awesome Alexa installing snowboy.

[A Former User]

internal firmware :) (eeprom)

[sdetweil]

@Bugsounet doesn’t the newer system apply the firmware update automatically?

see here for the firmware test and update procedure
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/booteeprom.md

[Ameyalgudkar]

@sdetweil I tried the boot recovery mentioned in the link, but no luck with that. Still gets stuck in boot and with a red light. no green light. should I try to get a replacement for my device?

[sdetweil]

@Ameyalgudkar I would guess yes

[A Former User]

and Recovery ?

[sdetweil]

@Ameyalgudkar this procedure to verify and then fix

Is the bootloader working correctly?
To check that the bootloader is working correctly, turn off the power, unplug everything from the Raspberry Pi 4, including the SD card, and then turn the power back on. If the green LED blinks with a repeating pattern then the bootloader is running correctly, and indicating that start*.elf has not been found. Any other actions imply that the bootloader is not working correctly and should be reinstalled using recovery.bin.

Recovery image
If the Raspberry Pi is not booting it's possible that the bootloader EEPROM is corrupted. This can easily be reprogrammed using the Raspberry Pi Imager tool which is available via the raspberrypi.org downloads page.

Using the recovery image will erase any custom configuration options, resetting the bootloader back to factory defaults.

Updating the bootloader
Bootloader updates are instigated during a normal apt update, apt full-upgrade cycle, this means you will get new features and bug fixes during your normal updates.

Bootloader updates are performed by the rpi-eeprom package, which installs a service that runs at boot-time to check for critical updates.

To update your system, including the bootloader:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot

and the bootloader recovery process is documented on the imager page, right?
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

[sdetweil]

@Ameyalgudkar I also uploaded a fixed do-install.sh which loads the dependency listed before as part of the install

I have run it on three different machines and it works correctly

[Ameyalgudkar]

@sdetweil yes thats the one.
Also I just checked there are few parameters in that config that I have slightly different than default. Even after flashing the default recovery.img it did not get changed. So I will do it manually and check if it works.

[Ameyalgudkar]

@sdetweil sorry to say, but nope it does not work on mine. the same snowboy installation error.

[sdetweil]

@Ameyalgudkar u have to boot the sd card you imaged from the recovery file, right?