odroid-xu4 sid edge 6.0.9 boot error

U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (Nov 30 2022 - 10:45:39 +0000) for ODROID-XU4

CPU:   Exynos5422 @ 800 MHz
Model: Odroid XU4 based on EXYNOS5422
Board: Odroid XU4 based on EXYNOS5422
Type:  xu4
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   EXYNOS DWMMC: 0, EXYNOS DWMMC: 1
MMC Device 0 ( SD ): 59.5 GiB
Card did not respond to voltage select!
mmc_init: -95, time 11
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   No ethernet found.
Press quickly 'Enter' twice to stop autoboot:  0 
** File not found /boot.ini **
## Executing script at 43e00000
Wrong image format for "source" command
12548 bytes read in 44 ms (278.3 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43e00000
111 bytes read in 33 ms (2.9 KiB/s)
6724096 bytes read in 550 ms (11.7 MiB/s)
11217705 bytes read in 881 ms (12.1 MiB/s)
0 bytes read in 45 ms (0 Bytes/s)
Found mainline kernel configuration
** File not found /boot/dtb/exynos5422-odroidhc1.dtb **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** File not found dtb/exynos5422-odroidhc1.dtb **
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
No FDT memory address configured. Please configure
the FDT address via "fdt addr <address>" command.
Aborting!
Kernel image @ 0x40008000 [ 0x000000 - 0x669a00 ]
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 42000000 ...
   Image Name:   uInitrd
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    11217641 Bytes = 10.7 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree
Could not find a valid device tree
** File not found /boot.scr **
## Executing script at 43e00000
** Invalid partition 2 **
## Executing script at 43e00000
** Invalid partition 2 **
## Executing script at 43e00000
** Invalid partition 2 **
## Executing script at 43e00000
mmc_init: -110, time 120
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
USB1:   Register 2000140 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
USB2:   Register 2000140 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 1 for devices... cannot reset port 1!?
1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 2 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
       scanning usb for ethernet devices... 1 Ethernet Device(s) found

USB device 0: unknown device
Waiting for Ethernet connection... done.
BOOTP broadcast 1

the boot fails after switching the kernel through armbian-config. Further investigation needed.

//Edit 1: the dtb file is missing.

ls -la /boot
insgesamt 32336
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4096  8. Dez 19:03 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root     4096 12. Jan 2022  ..
-rw-r-----  1 root root      111  8. Dez 18:47 armbianEnv.txt
-rw-r-----  1 root root        0 29. Dez 2021  armbianEnv.txt.out
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1536  7. Aug 2019  armbian_first_run.txt.template
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    38518  7. Aug 2019  boot.bmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     4882  7. Aug 2019  boot-desktop.png
-rw-rw-r--  1 root root    12548  7. Aug 2019  boot.ini
-rw-r-----  1 root root        0 29. Dez 2021  boot.ini.out
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   190980 30. Nov 12:07 config-6.0.9-odroidxu4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       21  6. Dez 18:42 dtb -> dtb-5.4.225-odroidxu4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       22 15. Apr 2020  dtb.old -> dtb-4.14.176-odroidxu4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11217641  8. Dez 19:03 initrd.img-6.0.9-odroidxu4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root        0  8. Dez 19:03 .next
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3672734 30. Nov 12:07 System.map-6.0.9-odroidxu4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       23  8. Dez 19:03 uInitrd -> uInitrd-6.0.9-odroidxu4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 11217705  8. Dez 19:03 uInitrd-6.0.9-odroidxu4
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  6724096 30. Nov 12:07 vmlinuz-6.0.9-odroidxu4
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       23  8. Dez 19:03 zImage -> vmlinuz-6.0.9-odroidxu4

It seems that the armbian-config does not install the dtb and because of its enforced reboot, it kills the boot process.

Edited December 8, 20223 yr by suchende