Raspberry pi 4b (RPi4B) ipfire stuck in the rainbow boot

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Hello, i tried so hard yesterday to flash it on usb or sd card but i am stuck in the rainbow boot, what can i do else?

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DId you miss the step to enable the HDI console? wiki.ipfire.org - Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

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Hello Lukas - Welcome to the IPFire community!

See the bottom of that Wiki page in the Troubleshooting section

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nope i did not miss that

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i checked that out, but i can not find an arm iso for the flash, can somone out there send me the optimal version for the pi please

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You want the aarch64 (Arm Architecture 64 bit) flash image file. Then install it onto the sd card as per

https://wiki.ipfire.org/installation/step2
https://wiki.ipfire.org/installation/write-a-flash-image

Once you have the image on your sd card, mount the sd card on a pc or laptop and you can then edit the appropriate files as per the wiki link from @jon

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Hello IPF Friends :slight_smile:

to solve the problem edit the uEnv.txt
SERIAL-CONSOLE=OFF

and the config.txt (put the 2 dots at the end of the txt)

enable_uart=1
hdmi_safe=0

If the problem occurs that IPFire cannot boot from the SD card, the whole thing can be solved easily →

  1. Insert the SD card into the USB stick and boot the system from it
  2. Log in as root
  3. Run the following command →
    mkimage -A arm -T script -O linux -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr
  4. Shut down the system and insert the SD card into the Raspberry slot
  5. Now the system can be started via the SD card

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