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Hi,

I failed to install Libreserver on a Raspberry, twice.

First I tried on a Raspberry Pi 4 based on https://libreserver.org/installation.html
However when writing the pi image to SD card, the Pi did not boot.
I then tried writing the imgage to a USB file and boot from USB, however this also failed:
the Pi4 bootloader starts but then timeout on rootfs.
For some reason the rootfs partition does not get mounted (tried rewriting the usb twice).
(Oddly the usb is not recognizable nor mountable in a standard Ubuntu install, whilst I could mount the 2 partitions written to the SD card. Same image file.)

Then I found this project: libreserver-maker.
I tried to build libreserver for raspberry Pi 3 B+ (there is no specific Pi 4 option).
However the image build process fails:

"qemu: Unsupported syscall: 403\nE: Unable to find a source package for raspi-firmware\n"

I think this is due to the line
'apt-get source {firmware_package}' where {firmware_package} = raspi-firmware in the file raspberry_pi_with_uboot.py.
a) some digging makes me suspect there is no source for raspi-firmware as it's closed source
(cfr.https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi)
b) there exists a binary package for raspi-firmware: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/raspi-firmware
However this is not available in sources.list.
I've added below lines to the raspberry_pi_with_uboot.py file

echo "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian bullseye main non-free" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

and changed

"apt-get source {firmware_package}" -> "apt-get download {firmware_package}"

The raspi-firmware package is now downloaded however the layout in this deb package does not correspond to what is expected in the remainder of the script. So it still fails.

I'm stuck and I don't know enough about boot partitions, firmware loaders, debian, pi specifics, ....

Any suggestions on how to continue?

Thx.

br,
Ruben