ESP_S3 could not boot on ESP32_S3_ZERO

[JohnMasen]

Target name(s)

ESP32_S3

Firmware version

1.9.1.161

Was working before? On which version?

N/A

Device capabilities

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Description

ESP32_S3_ZERO failed to boot after flashing ESP32_S3 firmware. it keeps rebooting with boot failure message "Guru Meditation Error: Core 0 panic'ed (LoadProhibited). Exception was unhandled."

After read the boot log, I found a possible reason: the boot loader reports 8MB spi flash, but there's actual 4MB flash on the board.

How to reproduce

Flash ESP32_S3_ZERO with following commands:

nanoff --update --serialport COM12 --target ESP32_S3 --masserase

command output:

.NET nanoFramework Firmware Flasher v2.5.77+18c31baab4
Copyright (C) 2019 .NET Foundation and nanoFramework project contributors

Reading details from chip...OK

Connected to:
ESP32-S3 (ESP32-S3 (QFN56) (revision v0.2))
Features WiFi, BLE, Embedded Flash 4MB (XMC), Embedded PSRAM 2MB (AP_3v3)
Flash size 4MB unknown from ST (manufacturer 0x32 device 0x16406)
PSRAM: undetermined
Crystal 40MHz
MAC 34:B7:DA:5A:E6:E0

Extracting ESP32_S3-1.9.1.161.zip...OK

Updating to 1.9.1.161

Erasing flash...OK
Flashing firmware...OK

Expected behaviour

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Screenshots

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Aditional information

boot info:

ESP-ROM:esp32s3-20210327
Build:Mar 27 2021
rst:0x3 (RTC_SW_SYS_RST),boot:0x8 (SPI_FAST_FLASH_BOOT)
Saved PC:0x403772fa
SPIWP:0xee
mode:DIO, clock div:1
load:0x3fce3818,len:0x1380
load:0x403c9700,len:0x4
load:0x403c9704,len:0xba4
load:0x403cc700,len:0x2c5c
entry 0x403c98f0
I (31) boot: .NET nanoFramework 2nd stage bootloader ESP-IDF v5.1.3
I (31) boot: build May 31 2024 13:54:31
I (31) boot: chip revision: v0.2
I (35) boot.esp32s3: Boot SPI Speed : 80MHz
I (40) boot.esp32s3: SPI Mode       : DIO
I (45) boot.esp32s3: SPI Flash Size : 8MB
I (49) boot: Enabling RNG early entropy source...
I (55) boot: Partition Table:
I (58) boot: ## Label            Usage          Type ST Offset   Length
I (66) boot:  0 nvs              WiFi data        01 02 00009000 00006000
I (73) boot:  1 phy_init         RF data          01 01 0000f000 00001000
I (81) boot:  2 factory          factory app      00 00 00010000 001a0000
I (88) boot:  3 deploy           Unknown data     01 84 001b0000 001f0000
I (96) boot:  4 config           Unknown data     01 82 003c0000 00040000
I (103) boot: End of partition table
I (107) esp_image: segment 0: paddr=00010020 vaddr=3c0d0020 size=24f78h (151416) map
I (143) esp_image: segment 1: paddr=00034fa0 vaddr=3fc99e00 size=03ea8h ( 16040) load
I (147) esp_image: segment 2: paddr=00038e50 vaddr=40374000 size=071c8h ( 29128) load
I (155) esp_image: segment 3: paddr=00040020 vaddr=42000020 size=ce54ch (845132) map
I (309) esp_image: segment 4: paddr=0010e574 vaddr=4037b1c8 size=0ebech ( 60396) load
I (323) esp_image: segment 5: paddr=0011d168 vaddr=600fe000 size=00064h (   100) load
I (332) boot: Loaded app from partition at offset 0x10000
I (332) boot: Disabling RNG early entropy source...
Guru Meditation Error: Core  0 panic'ed (LoadProhibited). Exception was unhandled.

Core  0 register dump:
PC      : 0x420cd53b  PS      : 0x00060130  A0      : 0x8202a955  A1      : 0x3fcbac90  
A2      : 0x00000000  A3      : 0x00000000  A4      : 0x3fcbaf60  A5      : 0x3fca3d70  
A6      : 0x3fcaa374  A7      : 0xffffffff  A8      : 0x820cd4f0  A9      : 0x3fcbac70  
A10     : 0x00000000  A11     : 0x3fca3e10  A12     : 0x3fca3e10  A13     : 0x3fca805c  
A14     : 0x3c0d9758  A15     : 0xffffffff  SAR     : 0x0000001e  EXCCAUSE: 0x0000001c  
EXCVADDR: 0x00000000  LBEG    : 0x400556d5  LEND    : 0x400556e5  LCOUNT  : 0xffffffff  

Backtrace: 0x420cd538:0x3fcbac90 0x4202a952:0x3fcbacb0 0x4202ace7:0x3fcbacd0 0x4202ade1:0x3fcbacf0 0x4202b8f1:0x3fcbad10 0x4202b92f:0x3fcbad40 0x4202b4b7:0x3fcbad60 0x42029cad:0x3fcbad80

ELF file SHA256: 25185633d832a0d8

Rebooting...

[JohnMasen]

This may helpful. I found another thread mentioned samed issue, turnes out the board maanger 2.0.15 will trigger this issue, 2.0.14 works fine.