BTW: such resistor placement may cause a black screen, OFW boot issues, etc. So I suggest to avoid this kind of PCB design. Resistors must be far from the rp2040 MCU on the edge of the PCB close to the solder points.
This may lose compatibility with Toshiba & SanDisk eMMC. The current design is made to support the widest possible range of hardware.
Also there was no "burning internal fuses", the update count was implemented by writing single bits on the specific flash page. This was made to avoid wearing...
in case the firmware fails to boot, it rolls back to the previous firmware, long white looks like it.
weird. how about muuuch longer timeout for every glitch attempt?
(hard to tell the real reason without logical analyzer. it is probably easier to deal with this rare issue)
Erista always boots faster, different algorithm.
You can try booting Mariko multiple times (like 20), the more you start the more statistics the chip has.
If you have Toshiba eMMC, you can replace it with a Samsung one, they are commonly faster