I have three different Raspberry PI 4 with 8GB. The oldest of them fails to boot the Ubuntu image. After displaying the text for the GROWROOT on either a 32GB or 64 GB created microSD card, the screen blanks and there is no further HDMI output. I have tried using Rufus, Startup Disk Creator and the snap rpi-imager, all with the same result. I am able to successfully install 20.04 on the machine, perform an upgrade to 20.10, but at that point I can no longer install software like raspi-config or inxi to generate further diagnostic data since I get 404 errors that there are no release candidates. 20.10 will also fail to upgrade to 21.04 for similar (reasons - sorry the system that is failing never gets to the point where I can capture error messages). I brought the failing system up with Ubuntu 20.10 desktop and I could not download inxi, but I have a copy of the /proc/cpuinfo for that system as well as the inxi -F output from the two systems that could boot Ubuntu 21.10.
$ cat cpuinfo.office.txt
processor : 0
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 3
processor : 1
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 3
processor : 2
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 3
processor : 3
BogoMIPS : 108.00
Features : fp asimd evtstrm crc32 cpuid
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 8
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd08
CPU revision : 3
Hardware : BCM2835
Revision : d03114
Serial : 10000000328abcf6
Model : Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4
lr System inxi -F
$ cat inxi.lr.txt
System:
Host: PI04-08-02 Kernel: 5.13.0-1011-raspi aarch64 bits: 64
Console: tty pts/2 Distro: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
Machine:
Type: ARM Device System: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 details: BCM2835
rev: c03111 serial: 10000000cab1143b
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: N/A variant: cortex-a72 bits: 64 type: MCP
Speed: 1500 MHz min/max: 600/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1500 2: 1500
3: 1500 4: 1500
Graphics:
Device-1: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A
Device-3: bcm2711-vc5 driver: vc4_drm v: N/A
Device-4: Realtek RTL2838 DVB-T type: USB
driver: dvb_usb_rtl28xxu,rtl2832_sdr
Display: server: X.org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.
Audio:
Device-1: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi
Device-3: bcm2835-audio driver: bcm2835_audio
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.0-1011-raspi running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: bcm2835-mmc driver: mmc_bcm2835
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: dc:a6:32:41:54:42
Device-2: bcm2711-genet-v5 driver: bcmgenet
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: dc:a6:32:41:54:41
Bluetooth:
Device-1: bcm2835-pl011 driver: uart_pl011
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: DC:A6:32:41:54:43 bt-v: 3.0
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 29.16 GiB used: 20.82 GiB (71.4%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: 00000 size: 29.16 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 28.4 GiB used: 20.71 GiB (72.9%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 853.1 MiB used: 494 MiB (57.9%)
dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 853.1 MiB used: 486.5 MiB (57.0%)
dev: /dev/zram1
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 853.1 MiB used: 487.5 MiB (57.1%)
dev: /dev/zram2
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 853.1 MiB used: 482.1 MiB (56.5%)
dev: /dev/zram3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 41.9 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 304 Uptime: 3d 12h 39m Memory: 3.78 GiB used: 3.53 GiB (93.4%)
gpu: 76 MiB Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06
br System inxi -F
cat inxi.br.txt
System:
Host: PI04-08-03 Kernel: 5.13.0-1011-raspi aarch64 bits: 64
Console: tty pts/1 Distro: Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
Machine:
Type: ARM Device System: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 details: BCM2835
rev: d03114 serial: 10000000a2366e6c
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: N/A variant: cortex-a72 bits: 64 type: MCP
Speed: 1500 MHz min/max: 600/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1500 2: 1500
3: 1500 4: 1500
Graphics:
Device-1: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A
Device-3: bcm2711-vc5 driver: vc4_drm v: N/A
Display: server: X.org 1.20.13 driver: loaded: vc4_drm
note: n/a (using device driver)
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.
Audio:
Device-1: bcm2711-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi
Device-2: bcm2711-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi
Device-3: bcm2835-audio driver: bcm2835_audio
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.0-1011-raspi running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.32 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: bcm2835-mmc driver: mmc_bcm2835
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: e4:5f:01:4c:b2:8b
Device-2: bcm2711-genet-v5 driver: bcmgenet
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: e4:5f:01:4c:b2:8a
Bluetooth:
Device-1: bcm2835-pl011 driver: uart_pl011
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 state: up address: E4:5F:01:4C:B2:8C bt-v: 3.0
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 29.16 GiB used: 12.09 GiB (41.5%)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: 00000 size: 29.16 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 28.4 GiB used: 11.99 GiB (42.2%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 1.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 1.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram1
ID-3: swap-3 type: zram size: 1.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram2
ID-4: swap-4 type: zram size: 1.72 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 44.3 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 273 Uptime: 1d 21m Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (34.0%)
gpu: 76 MiB Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.06