admyly / rpi4-uefi-ipxe

UEFI iPXE for the Raspberry Pi 4 ARM64

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This builds UEFI iPXE for the Raspberry Pi 4 ARM64 and releases it with the pftf/RPi4 binaries.

This is used by rgl/talos-vagrant and is related to rgl/raspberrypi-uefi-edk2-vagrant.

sd-card flashing

Use Raspberry Pi Imager or Etcher to flash a release rpi4-uefi-ipxe.img.zip file into the sd-card.

Alternatively, use the rpi4-uefi-ipxe.zip file to manually create the sd-card.

Find which device was allocated for the sd-card that will store the uefi firmware:

lsblk -o KNAME,SIZE,TRAN,FSTYPE,UUID,LABEL,MODEL,SERIAL
# lsblk should output all the plugged block devices, in my case, this is the device that I'm interested in:
#
#   sde    28,9G usb                                                                STORAGE DEVICE   000000078
#   sde1    256M        vfat   9F2D-0578                            boot
#   sde2    6,1G        ext4   efc2ea8b-042f-47f5-953e-577d8860de55 rootfs

Wipe the sd-card (in this example its at /dev/sde) and put a release in it:

NB the rpi4 recovery.bin (which will end up inside the eeprom) bootloader only supports booting from an MBR/MSDOS partition type/table/label and from a FAT32 LBA (0x0c) or FAT16 LBA (0x0e) partition types/filesystem. Eventually it will support GPT.

NB the rpi4 bootloader that is inside the mask rom also seems to support GPT, but until its supported by recovery.bin we cannot use a GPT.

# switch to root.
sudo -i

# set the sd-card target device and mount point.
target_device=/dev/sde
target=/mnt/rpi4-uefi

# umount any existing partition that you might have already mounted.
umount ${target_device}?

# format the sd-card at $target_device.
parted --script $target_device mklabel msdos
parted --script $target_device mkpart primary fat32 4 100
parted $target_device print
# Model: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
# Disk /dev/sde: 31,0GB
# Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
# Partition Table: msdos
# Disk Flags:
#
# Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
#  1      4194kB  2048MB  2044MB  primary  fat32        lba
mkfs -t vfat -n RPI4-UEFI ${target_device}1

# install the firmware in the sd-card.
mkdir -p $target
mount ${target_device}1 $target
unzip rpi4-uefi-ipxe.zip -d $target

# check the results.
find $target

# eject the sd-card.
umount $target
eject $target_device

# exit the root shell.
exit

Remove the sd-card from the computer.

Put it in the rpi and power it up.

For more information see:

• rgl/raspberrypi-uefi-edk2-vagrant.
• rgl/talos-vagrant.