ROM date wrong (16/04/23)

Today’s (16-Apr-23) ROM beta reports itself as 09-Apr-23. SideDiff reports ROMs do differ.

Today’s (16-Apr-23) ROM beta reports itself as 09-Apr-23.

On which platform?

16-Apr-23 here on Titanium and RPi3B+.

RPi4B

Odd… it’s a Pi. Attempt re-install, re-boot. Still shows as 09/04. Filer shows timestamp as 04:34:12 16 Apr 2023.

RPi4B

Downloaded latest BCM2835Dev zip and installed it on my Pi4B and rebooted and it says 16-Apr-23 in about the operating system.

Solved! (sort of). Helps if one doesn’t change ‘riscos’ into ‘RICOS’ when capitalising the file name.

‘Sort of’ because why did it start up at all?

edit: Because renaming meant the earlier ROM hadn’t been overwritten – when’s my next optician appointment? (sigh)

when capitalising the file name.

Why do that? It works quite well just as it comes out of the Zip.

Assumption on my part? It was a requirement for the Beagleboard. Now I know I’ll save myself the labour, ta.

I think whether it is UPPERCASE or lowercase depends on whether it is an old 8.3 FAT filename, or a newer LFN one. The Beagle’s bootloader isn’t particularly clever so…