Hello!

 

After installing Debian stable (bookworm) v25.2 on my Cubietruck from SD card to SSD using armbian-install and then moving boot to SSD using armbian-config: Install/Update the bootloader on (/dev/sda/) i'm trying to boot with SD card removed and ending up in this strange android GUI. My /etc/fstab is looking like this:

 

# <file system>                                 <mount point>   <type>  <options>                                                       <dump>  <pass>
tmpfs                                           /tmp            tmpfs   defaults,nosuid                                                 0       0
UUID=723a49f7-ffc6-4d66-8198-07d4ac71688f       /media/mmcboot  ext4    defaults,noatime,commit=120,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide       0       1
/media/mmcboot/boot                             /boot           none    bind                                                            0       0
UUID=7e00bf90-f9ea-4755-95f7-96d37a2d9642       /               ext4    defaults,noatime,commit=120,errors=remount-ro,x-gvfs-hide       0       1

 

I would like to boot from internal SSD without having SD card inserted.  What am I missing?

1 hour ago, rcr said:

What am I missing?

 

Reading the A20 SoC documentation?

 

tl;dr;
That is not possible on this hardware as boot from NAND is not supported on modern U-boot / Linux.

Thank you for quick reply. Haven't even thought it's not supported.

 

PS: I wanted to thank the developers for such build / config tool! It worked like a charm as I decided to upgrade from Ubuntu xenial.

Edited January 19, 20251 yr by rcr

I would like to ask what is the reason to NOT support to boot from NAND on cubietruck. Several years ago it worked out ok. I/O speed is not important for me, but i remember some armbian developers commented it is not supported anymore because it is too slow. I do not use my cb3 for speed, but for stableness.
When booting from NAND is not supported on modern u-boot/linux, why does it work on my NanoPI Neo Plus2?