Boot Problem after upgrade newbie question with pocket reform

Hi @Uni sorry I was 3 hours too late yesterday and saw you left the channel. There was one reply by @minute to your last question. Let me copy it here as you probably haven’t seen it (unless you looked it up in the logs):

“reform53” is gone but i guess the answer is that the reform-migrate script was executed on the SD card and the SD card’s boot config thus changed. re-imaging the SD card would be the way to go

I agree that re-imagining the sd-card is something you might want to try.

You said that when you ran reform-setup-encrypted-disk you chose eMMC as the device for /boot, so theoretically the sd-card should not’ve been touched. I flashed the very latest system image to an sd-card yesterday and ran it myself but not on an imx8m+ pocket but on a rk3588 classic reform. Unfortunately, everything went as expected. So maybe whatever the bug is, is specific to imx8m+?

I asked in the other thread whether you see an error message explaining why you get thrown into the rescue shell but in Pocket Reform, HDMI output lores - #11 by murph you only explain when this happens and not whether you see an error message. I guess you do not see an actual error message but what you wrote above makes me think that “it says there is an error”?

On IRC @minute pointed to “a functioning image from 20250724” as mentioned by @Uni as well. The exact link is this one in case @murph wants to flash that to an sd-card as well and see if it makes a difference:

Maybe somebody else with an i.MX8M+ Pocket Reform can try to verify that this is a problem specific to that platform? Both of your issues have quite a few similarities and since I just tested flashing an sd-card and installing a Reform from scratch from it without issues I am starting to think that this is a problem specifically with i.MX8M+…

I added the pipeline results declared as “known good” to this table:

It includes a few older system images. If it is indeed recent changes that resulted in this failure, trying out older system image artifacts may be a way forward. But as I’ve said in the other thread, since I don’t have the hardware I have not many other ideas left…