Recalbox on NVMe/Can't boot from anything else

[WhiteAngelDoubs]

Hello there,

I am the proud owner of an RPI 5 8GB (with an ARGON ONE v3 case) running Recalbox 9.2.3 from the NVMe SSD. I seem to have the latest bootloader ("CURRENT: Thu Dec 19 11:57:13 UTC 2024 (1734609433)") and I installed Recalbox with Raspberry Pi OS (from a USB drive) and Raspberry Pi Imager. Before I boot on my freshly installed recalbox, I made sure that USB was my primary boot option (in raspi-config) but now that recalbox is running, the BOOT_ORDER seems to be back to what seems to be the default setup, 0xf461 and raspi-config does not seem to be supported in recalbox. I tried "rpi-eeprom-config -edit" but then I get this:

*** To cancel this update run 'sudo rpi-eeprom-update -r' ***
 
*** CREATED UPDATE /tmp/tmp5kgfiisq/pieeprom.upd  ***
 
   CURRENT: Thu Dec 19 11:57:13 UTC 2024 (1734609433)
    UPDATE: Sat Apr 20 10:53:30 UTC 2024 (1713610410)
    BOOTFS: /boot
ERROR: rpi-eeprom-update -d -i -f /tmp/tmp5kgfiisq/pieeprom.upd failed: 1
 
 WARNING: flashrom not found. Setting RPI_EEPROM_USE_FLASHROM to 0
/usr/bin/rpi-eeprom-update: line 707: findmnt: command not found
   WARNING: Installing an older bootloader version.
            Update the rpi-eeprom package to fetch the latest bootloader images.
 
/usr/bin/rpi-eeprom-digest: line 92: /boot/pieeprom.sig: Read-only file system

Note: the "space bar" trick while booting does not work for me either. No boot menu, it goes straight to booting Recalbox.

I want to use NVMe as my Recabox drive since I almost exclusively use my Pi for that purpose. But sometimes, I just want to be able to use my USB drive to run Raspberry Pi OS.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please?

[WhiteAngelDoubs]

Note: I found one thread that mentioned something about renaming the config.txt but I tried and it will not allow it. I have no other solutions so far... There must be a way to update the boot order in recalbox, right?

[WhiteAngelDoubs]

Is my question so stupid that no one wants to answer it? Or it is the contrary, it is a real tricky one?

[WhiteAngelDoubs]

Sorry for this, I need this to be visible so, up!

[Magaki]

Hello,

I let confirm if necessary, but I don't think Argon One for PI5 is compatible with Recalbox.
If it's true, it can explain why it's not working.

[WhiteAngelDoubs]

Hey @Magaki, thank you for response. It is true that the case is not technically compatible, so I am losing on the cooling feature, the remote control and the power on button for the moment. However, I have my doubts on the fact that it has anything to do with the problem I am experiencing. Could you elaborate your reasoning?

[Magaki]

I'm not behind development of working for compatibility with stuff.
I'll let right people answer to you.

[faf95slr]

you cannot change Boot order from Recalbox OS; raspi-config is not implemented.

all changes in config.txt file will be overwritten at next reboot.

you need to boot Raspberry OS on SD card to update firmware and modify Boot order with raspi-config

sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade

sudo rpi-eeprom-update

sudo raspi-config

Advanced Options --> Boot Order

• SD Card Boot
• NVMe/USB Boot
• Network Boot

I am not sure you can boot USB before NVMe