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bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> I've been booting a couple of old Pi2 v1.1 (armv7) hosts
> using the bootcode.bin method to run freebsd from usb
> mechanical hard disks.
>
> The hardware documentation page link for the "latest"
> bootcode.bin for this purpose appears to be at least a
> couple years old, placed on Github under the handle
> popcornmix. The URL is
> https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/boot/bootcode.bin
>
>
> Does anybody know of a more recent version of the file? Recent
> boot attempts have failed to find the USB disk, but the disk
> and SATA-to_USB adapter are recognized without a problem on
> both FreeBSD and RasPiOS Bookworm, suggesting both are ok.

That's the official repo so I don't think you'll find a newer version.

Do you have the other files on the USB disc, ie start*.elf, fixup*.dat, etc?

Did you try another USB disc, in case there's something about this
particular one the bootloader doesn't like?  On PCs it's not unknown for
them to refuse to boot certain USB devices.  Kernels have more flexibility
to work around strange implementation quirks than firmware does.

Theo

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