October 1, 20233 yr Dear All, First I would like to thanks all the contributors to armbian, What a great OS for our small SBC ! Context: I run succesfully latest Armbian on a X9T 4K TV Box (amlogic s912) from SD Card 2GB (following instructions here The Problem: I would like to run armbian from emmc (16GB on this box) for better reliability and performance. So, I run the install-aml.sh script, I had some error (no boot.ini ...), but the process seems to finish successfully Next Reboot: It's seems my boot partition is Not OK ... something missing ... For reference See bellow for reference the succesfull boot from the sdcard If I boot from SDCard, I can inspect the /boot and root partition on emmc, everything seems ok On the emmc partition, the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf is correctly modified: extlinux.conf LABEL Armbian LINUX /Image INITRD /uInitrd #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-p200.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini.dtb FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-g12a-x96-max.dtb #FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-g12b-odroid-n2.dtb append root=LABEL=ROOT_EMMC rootflags=data=writeback console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 rw no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles And the disk partion on the emmc fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk1 Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 14.64 GiB, 15724445696 bytes, 30711808 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x09170000 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/mmcblk1p1 1953792 2953215 999424 488M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk1p2 2955264 30711807 27756544 13.2G 83 Linux If you can help me .... Thx in advance Nico Edited October 1, 20233 yr by Nico059 better readability of my problem ;-), and add fdidk -l of emmc
October 2, 20233 yr Author Some other informations: I have been able to interrupt the uboot process (when box start without SDCARD), and try some command (see capture): mmc list, and mmc info : the dev 1 is the eMMC, so it's recognized mmc part, partition table unknown (don't know if it's ok or not... And when I boot from SDCard (fresh Armbian); here is the lsblk result: -mmcblk0 is the SDCARD (2GB) - mmcblk1 is the eMMC (16GB) with all supposed partitions .... - mmcblk1p1 (the /boot) : I can mount them and the content seems ok - mmcblk1p2 (the root: /) : I can mount them and the content seems ok - mmcblk1boot0 and mmcblk1boot1, with 4 MB size, that is the uboot partitin if I understand correctly (the one that of backuped with dd if of durint install-aml.sh script) @SteeMan, do you have any idea why this box refuse to boot from emmc. I can do other investigations if you can help me 😉 (I learn lot's of stuff with this problem about u-boot and all : it's a good for a bad...) Thx in advance, Nico Edited October 2, 20233 yr by Nico059
October 8, 20233 yr on the sdcard, did you copy /boot/u-boot-s905x-s912 to /boot/u-boot.ext, before running install-aml.sh? I think install-aml.sh will cause u-boot.ext to be copied to emmc /boot/u-boot.emmc - is that file there on emmc boot partition? Edited October 8, 20233 yr by Jens J.
December 30, 20232 yr Hello how are you? I have exactly the same problem, when I ran armbian from SD it works perfectly but when I install in emmc with the script, it takes 15 minutes, it ends ok but when I turn off and remove the SD memory to boot from emmc the same thing happens to me, I put it again the SD and it works perfectly, I don't know what else to try, I tried with different versions of armbian, I tried to change the Android version so the boot changes and then I press it with armbian and there is no case, I would appreciate if someone knows something
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