Troubleshooting • Raspi 5 bricked with BOOT_ORDER

I accidentally reversed the order of the nibbles in BOOT_ORDER and set this using rpi-eeprom-config --edit
The raspi 5 no longer boots from any media (SD card, USB, NVMe), instead the power LED turns green without ever blinking, the fan spins at max rpm, and there is no HDMI output at all. I assume it's stuck in an endless loop before trying to boot from any media as the f in the least significant nibble of BOOT_ORDER dictates.

I have tried booting a recovery image that is supposed to reset the boot order to something reasonable from an SD card but this fails in the same way.

Is there any way to recover from this? Thanks in advance.

Statistics: Posted by georg1234 — Thu Jan 01, 2026 2:29 pm

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