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RPi4 Support on PiServer version 0.5 #94

Closed jonwitts closed 4 years ago

jonwitts commented 4 years ago

Hi there;

With the release of the Buster version of the x86 Raspberry Pi Desktop: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspberry-pi-desktop/ has the ability to add Raspberry Pi 4 been included in the software?

I am keen to test an "official" release that allows RPi 4 to be added and managed from PiServer rather than my somewhat hacked way of doing things at the moment! https://www.jonwitts.co.uk/archives/1222

I have also seen that network booting of the RPi4 is now being tested / in beta...

Are there plans to get this incorporated into PiServer if it has not already been?

Thanks, Jon

maxnet commented 4 years ago

As far as the Piserver side of things is concerned Pi 4 works, yes.

They do not come with network booting enabled by default though. And I personally think the currently recommend way of updating EEPROM using a SD card with Raspbian (like documented at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bcm2711_bootloader_config.md ) is a bit overly complicated if you want to enable it on multiple Pi.

Would perhaps be easier if a ready-made tiny .zip file or image with just the bits needed to update EEPROM with the new firmware and settings was released. (not using a full Raspbian installation for that, but just using the recovery.bin method).

jonwitts commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the reply... Yes; I would agree that does seem overly complicated!

Once I have copied and edited the bootconf.txt could I use the same one to just apply the change to all my Pi 4, or would I need to extract it and edit it for each one?

Let me know if this isn't the right place for such question!

maxnet commented 4 years ago

Once I have copied and edited the bootconf.txt could I use the same one to just apply the change to all my Pi 4, or would I need to extract it and edit it for each one?

Think you should be able to use that SD card to flash all your Pi 4. (Do recall when using recovery.bin it is more picky about what brand SD card you use.)

Let me know if this isn't the right place for such question!

Yes and no. Asking in rpi-eeprom repo will probably give you a more official answer, what the proper way is. That does not mean, my solutions do not work. :-)

jonwitts commented 4 years ago

Thanks; I will give it a go later this week hopefully and let you know how it goes :-D

jonwitts commented 4 years ago

Hi that pretty much worked... The only bit I had to add was creating a pieeprom.sum file using: sha256sum pieeprom.bin > pieeprom.sum

This was answered over on the RPi-EEPROM repo for me: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/78

Thanks - I now have a handful of RPi4 network booting from my PiServer! I am going to make my way round them all in the next couple of days and can once again do away with the SD Cards completely!

MilesAheadToo commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to run PiServer on an RPi4?

maxnet commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to run PiServer on an RPi4?

Technically, yes. Would still recommend Intel/AMD as server, for better storage options.