Tumbleweed on Raspberry pi4

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Hı there,

I was using Tumbleweed on Raspberry Pi4b and last update make my USB stack on u-boot. I downloaded [https://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/appliances/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2025.10.15-Snapshot20251028.raw.xz](https://20251028 Tumbleweed KDE for Raspberr Pİ) and write to USB it stack on U-Boot too… Does anybody have any idea what is going on?

Not: I just learn that OpenSuse Tumbleweed is supporting RPi5. Does anyone tryed?

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@sehsuvar how did you create the USB stick image?

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I use Rufus as usual

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Please note that u-boot logo appears on the top right, but then it says something about “Time Out”

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@sehsuvar that’s not how it’s done with raw images… xzcat and dd…

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I always do with Rufus, decompess and writes as dd EFI partition is there. I also noticed some file in EFI parttiion has changed…

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@sehsuvar I would suggest getting a live image eg Tumbleweed Rescue USB, use rufus in dd mode to create that image. Boot that and then use;

xzcat openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-KDE-raspberrypi.aarch64-2025.10.15-Snapshot20251028.raw.xz | dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress

Where sdX is the USB drive you want to use for the image.

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@sehsuvar the above command has never failed for me, RaspberryPi3 or RISCV64.

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I suspect someting about EFI has changed. Because My USB was working Tumbleweed waz booting and I made "sudo zypper dup

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I guess something about EFI has changed. Because my Tumbleweed was working fine. After “sudo zypper dup && sudo reboot” it stack at u-boot I compared EFI partitions and some file in overlays has changed. (I also checked RPi4b with debian hw working fine)

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for example overlay_map.dtbo file is missing. and overlay_map.dtb file present. “o” at file extention is missing

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@sehsuvar did you look at what was updated in the ARM snapshot release info? A link is provided in the Forum?
… raspberrypi-firmware-dt, grub2 etc …

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in older EFI/overlays there were 362 files and now 365 files … I guess something messed up in EFI partition

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Thanks for your help… I guess I will to write a bug report to BugZilla.

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@sehsuvar maybe it’s similar to the RPi5 bug… https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251192

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Thank you very much. Syndromes are quite similar. I will add my observations to that report…

Thanx