Kernel Panics with Network Boot on Raspberry Pi 3B+ with latest raspberrypi-bootloader package
For those of you using my Raspberry PI Network Boot Guide, please be aware of an issue with the current raspberrypi-bootloader package (Version: 1:1.20210727-1). Here are the offending package details, though the bug may exist in one of this package’s dependencies. Here’s the offending package’s details.
Package: raspberrypi-bootloader Source: raspberrypi-firmware Version: 1:1.20210727-1 Architecture: armhf Maintainer: Serge Schneider <serge@raspberrypi.org> Installed-Size: 21652 Recommends: raspberrypi-kernel Homepage: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware Priority: optional Section: admin Filename: pool/main/r/raspberrypi-firmware/raspberrypi-bootloader_1.20210727-1_armhf.deb Size: 4517936 SHA256: 67c1ed7b2151fa161532a141f9882a3ed47c60693022453f054d560eeb5c6073 SHA1: 2d20f335bc31d7efac1e7bd21d61607c03174c80 MD5sum: 0ba864a6b822f174f4e6e12d528cdadd Description: Raspberry Pi bootloader This package contains the Raspberry Pi firmware and bootloader. Description-md5: f3fa59829d377b6fc81f91a4f5aa78da
Installing this package will trigger kernel panics on the Raspberry Pi 3B+, but not on 4B. I’ve not tried it on earlier hardware iterations capable of network boot, so backup before attempting an update. You can track the progress of the issue here on GitHub. If you wish to use the latest RPi Linux Kernel (5.10.52), it is compatible with the earlier version of raspberrypi-bootloader (Version: 1:1.20210527-1).
