My RPI does not boot from SD card unless it is a recovery image, which fails to recovery it. During recovery the serial console shows:
The last seventeen lines loop a bunch, and then eventually it gives up:
When I try USB recovery it does this on the console:
And this in the terminal running the recovery:
Am I out of options? Is my device bricked?
Code:
1.34 RPi: RECOVERY release VERSION:2226a853 DATE: 2025/12/08 TIME: 19:29:54 1.34 BOOTMODE: 0x02 partition 0 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=1765222194 serial 07eb4858 boardrev d04170 stc 1346941 1.35 AON_RESET: 00000003 PM_RSTS 00001000 1.36 POWER_OFF_ON_HALT: 0 WAIT_FOR_POWER_BUTTON 0 power-on-reset 1 1.67 Unsupported boot order 4 1.15 M.2 PCIe HAT not detected. 1.41 BOOT_ORDER: 0xf1 1.43 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800000 BUS: 400000 Hz actual: 390625 HZ div: 512 (256) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 276 1.44 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800f00 BUS: 400000 Hz actual: 390625 HZ div: 512 (256) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 276 1.65 OCR c0ff8000 [317]CID: 009c534f55534430301021134f2f0136CSD: 400e00325b5900003a977f800a400000 1.66 SD: bus-width: 4 spec: 2 SCR: 0x02358003 0x00000000 1.67 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800f04 BUS: 50000000 Hz actual: 50000000 HZ div: 4 (2) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 2 1.67 MBR: 0x00000800, 524288 type: 0x0c 1.68 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 1.68 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 1.68 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 1.93 type: 32 lba: 2048 'mkfs.fat' ' NO NAME ' clusters 516190 (1) 1.69 rsc 32 fat-sectors 4033 root dir cluster 2 sectors 0 entries 0 1.70 FAT32 clusters 516190 1.70 [sdcard] config.txt not found 1.71 pieeprom.sig 1.71 hash: 3fcc73903807dfbebb50697c3e4f2a6f09d5a3c5348b6ba8d00a2f179050c022 1.72 ts: 1765538232 2.90 Reading EEPROM: 2097152 bytes 0xc1160000 4.91 2499ms 5.39 Writing EEPROM+ 5.39 EEPROM ERROR sector-erase: 0x0 0x0 5.42 Update failed. Retrying. 5.45 Erasing EEPROM 5.47 EEPROM error chip-erase: 0x0 0 5.56 BOOT_ORDER: 0xf1 5.57 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800000 BUS: 400000 Hz actual: 390625 HZ div: 512 (256) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 276 5.59 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800f00 BUS: 400000 Hz actual: 390625 HZ div: 512 (256) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 276 5.60 OCR c0ff8000 [3]CID: 009c534f55534430301021134f2f0136CSD: 400e00325b5900003a977f800a400000 5.60 SD: bus-width: 4 spec: 2 SCR: 0x02358003 0x00000000 5.61 SD HOST: 200000000 CTL0: 0x00800f04 BUS: 50000000 Hz actual: 50000000 HZ div: 4 (2) status: 0x1fff0000 delay: 2 5.62 MBR: 0x00000800, 524288 type: 0x0c 5.62 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 5.63 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 5.63 MBR: 0x00000000, 0 type: 0x00 5.40 type: 32 lba: 2048 'mkfs.fat' ' NO NAME ' clusters 516190 (1) 5.64 rsc 32 fat-sectors 4033 root dir cluster 2 sectors 0 entries 0 5.65 FAT32 clusters 516190 5.65 [sdcard] config.txt not found 5.59 No EEPROM filesCode:
47.38 Recovery failed 47.93 USB-OTG disconnect 47.40 BOOT ERROR: code 4 - ''Code:
19.70 RPi: RECOVERY release VERSION:8124798b DATE: 2026/02/06 TIME: 14:31:40 19.71 BOOTMODE: 0x07 partition 0 build-ts BUILD_TIMESTAMP=1770388300 serial 07eb4858 boardrev d04170 stc 19711032 19.72 AON_RESET: 00000003 PM_RSTS 00001000 19.72 POWER_OFF_ON_HALT: 0 WAIT_FOR_POWER_BUTTON 0 power-on-reset 1 19.73 BOOT_ORDER: 0xf3 19.73 USB-OTG disconnect 22.99 Read config.txt bytes 253 hnd 0x0 22.40 pieeprom.sig 22.40 hash: eddb56ce922162bba3f4147378ece1eaa304eaafb62fe78815b6aafb4a96ae1a 22.41 ts: 1771817432 23.67 Reading EEPROM: 2097152 bytes 0xc1160000 25.51 2483ms 26.98 Writing EEPROM+ 26.98 EEPROM ERROR sector-erase: 0x0 0x0 26.02 Update failed. Retrying. 26.04 Erasing EEPROM 26.06 EEPROM error chip-erase: 0x0 0 26.31 BOOT_ORDER: 0xf3 26.14 Read config.txt bytes 253 hnd 0x0 26.32 USB-OTG disconnect 26.27 RECOVERY: COMPLETE: REBOOT 0 Code:
Loading: ./bootcode5.binWaiting for BCM2835/6/7/2711/2712...Loading: ./bootcode5.binSending bootcode.binSuccessful read 4 bytes Waiting for BCM2835/6/7/2711/2712...Loading: ./bootcode5.binSecond stage boot serverLoading: ./config.txtFile read: config.txtLoading: ./pieeprom.binLoading: ./pieeprom.binLoading: ./pieeprom.sigFile read: pieeprom.sigLoading: ./pieeprom.binFile read: pieeprom.binLoading: ./config.txtFile read: config.txtLoading: ./pieeprom.bin{"USER_SERIAL_NUM": "7eb4858","MAC_ADDR": "d8:3a:dd:da:d8:92","EEPROM_UPDATE": "fail","EEPROM_HASH": "eddb56ce922162bba3f4147378ece1eaa304eaafb62fe78815b6aafb4a96ae1a","CUSTOMER_KEY_HASH": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000","BOOT_ROM": "0000000a","BOARD_ATTR": "00000000","USER_BOARDREV": "d04170","JTAG_LOCKED": "0","SIGNATURE_MODE": "0","MAC_WIFI_ADDR": "d8:3a:dd:da:d8:93","MAC_BT_ADDR": "d8:3a:dd:da:d8:94","FACTORY_UUID": "000000911041804306"}Statistics: Posted by barge_manager — Mon Feb 23, 2026 3:46 am