November 5, 2025Nov 5 Hello everyone! Saw that some luckfox boards were getting supported and I was like: YES!!! Flashed an sd-card with the community image. Latest I could find is 25.11.0-trunk.413. And plonked in my working Luckfox Lyra Zero W and it failed to boot. From what I gather there seems to be a missing partition called "misc" and I think it is expected about after the current unallocated 16MB(16,777,216 bytes). I tried creating a 4MB partition after the current unallocated space but it complained about something called "Magic" and my limited u-boot/rockchip/embedded linux experience made me get lost there. This is the serial output: Where the "No misc partition" is where I began. My current board has buildroot flashed to the SPI and boots if i don't have any sd-card inserted. DDR 0ac6b06a19 typ 24/11/13-17:22:47,fwver: v1.04 tREFI:4x, sr_idle:93, pd_idle:13 PHY drv:clk:40,ca:48,DQ:40,odt:240 vrefinner:50%, vrefout:50% dram drv:40,odt:120 sr_dq:0, sr_ca:0, sr_clk:0 rg:0xc-0x1-0x2, 0x3d-0x0-0x2,status:a007 rdtrn:0x14-0x30-0x4c(0x38) wrtrn:0x3-0x20-0x3d(0x3a) DDR3, 750MHz BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS=1 Size=512MB out U-Boot SPL board init U-Boot SPL 2017.09-g4d88b0a #hxj (Jul 30 2025 - 20:08:42) sfc cmd=03H(6BH-x4) SPI Nand ID ef aa 22 unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ef, aa Trying to boot from MMC1 No misc partition spl: partition error Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector ## Verified-boot: 0 ## Checking op-tee 0x00001000 ... sha256(93603ca22c...) + OK ## Checking u-boot 0x00100000 ... sha256(606b868a00...) + OK ## Checking fdt-1 0x0018baf0 ... sha256(6ae9f912c7...) + OK Jumping to U-Boot(0x00001000) I/TC: I/TC: OP-TEE version: 3.13.0-958-g46dcf51e88a #chenjh (gcc version 10.2.1 20201103 (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 10.2-2020.11 (arm-10.16))) #2 Thu Mar 6 10:17:27 CST 2025 arm, fwver: v2.10 I/TC: Status: cluster=0xc00, core=0xe100, bootcpu=0 I/TC: Next entry point address: 0x03f011a7 I/TC: OP-TEE memory size: TEEOS 0x5e000 TA 0x1000 SHM 0x1000 I/TC: Primary CPU initializing I/TC: Primary CPU switching to normal world boot
November 6, 2025Nov 6 Author So I am not a person to give up on this I basically took the partition scheme of a working ubuntu img and inserted the armbian partition and got further along. I changed it to below and got further along! Check the log for more information. Hint it threw some panic stuff, I wasn't expecting much but got further along. Hope someone can see what is wrong and help me troubleshoot. sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd Disk /dev/sdd: 28.85 GiB, 30979129344 bytes, 60506112 sectors Disk model: Storage Device 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: gpt Disk identifier: 863CE3B9-B148-45D1-B850-79AC22F0EB72 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdd1 8192 16383 8192 4M Linux filesystem /dev/sdd2 16384 40959 24576 12M Linux filesystem /dev/sdd3 65536 60504063 60438528 28.8G Linux filesystem screenlog.log
November 6, 2025Nov 6 Author I see now with some examination this: [ 1.995057]3 614e0000-0000-4b53-8000-1d2800995194] No filesystem could moun ext4 [ 1.995269] [ 1.9g: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 002577] CPU2: stopping The reason for the missing characters is likely the shitty CH340 I have connected as the serial monitor. Should still be able to see the issue.
November 6, 2025Nov 6 Author I fixed the shitty dd stuff i did previously. I got it to boot now. It seems that the partitions need to be included in the image for it to work. From inside the armbian image: mmcblk0 179:0 0 28.9G 0 disk ├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 4M 0 part ├─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 12M 0 part └─mmcblk0p3 179:3 0 28.8G 0 part /var/log.hdd I will build my own img and see if there is anything I can do about the non working usb. I think it might likely be related to dts Edited November 6, 2025Nov 6 by Sune
November 7, 2025Nov 7 Author Building a new image did not solve the issue. no output on lsusb when plugging in anything. no output related to usb on dmesg. I personally think it is related to missing dts information. I did find this: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/configs/rk3506-usb-otg.config And this: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/configs/rk3506-usb-host.config Which I hope will enable me to use the usb. Specifcially: CONFIG_USB_COMMON=y & CONFIG_USB_GADGET=y & CONFIG_USB=y Will see what I can do after work today since it is friday Also for my own information, Here is the dtsi for the rk3506: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3506.dtsi And also this one: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3506b-luckfox-lyra-zero-w-sd.dts
November 11, 2025Nov 11 Thank you for sharing your work and insights. Please continue and don't give up!
November 11, 2025Nov 11 Author I see some new stuff got added into the build on git. also the RV1106 and RV1103 which I both have. So will be able to try it. Currently building a new img to try. Will take longer than my lunch break though, so won't be able to test it. Hopefully someone has fixed the sd card partitions otherwise I will have to do it manually again.
November 11, 2025Nov 11 Author Just so I don't forget. To be able to get it working currently I have to do this. Yeah yeah, hate me all you want, I don't know this shit Your SD-card will be fried and wanna give up after this many shitty writes. I always wonder why everyone decided sd-cards were a good idea... Flash with a known good image. Example Luckfoxs own or this from platima (https://github.com/platima/SBC-Images/tree/main/Luckfox/Lyra/Lyra Zero W) verify it with sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdX and it should look like this Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdg1 8192 16383 8192 4M Linux filesystem /dev/sdg2 16384 40959 24576 12M Linux filesystem /dev/sdg3 65536 2037759 1972224 963M Linux filesystem build your own img. sudo losetup -fP --show armbian.img Open gparted and delete the sdg3 and create a new partition to like 4-6GiB so we are able to write to the partition free space before should be 12MiB Then write to the /dev/sdX3 partition (Make sure you are pointing to the right device so you don't overwrite your USB drive with all the important photos on it ) sudo dd if=/dev/loopXp1 of=/dev/sdX3 bs=4M status=progress Plug that sd-card in and hook up an serial connection and boot it and it will boot up in and you should have this in about 5 mins _ _ _ __ __ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ ___ / _|/ _(_)__(_)__ _| | / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \___| || | ' \/ _ \ _| _| / _| / _` | | /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| \_,_|_||_\___/_| |_| |_\__|_\__,_|_| v25.11 rolling for Luckfox Lyra Zero W running Armbian Linux 6.1.99 Packages: Debian stable (bookworm), possible distro upgrade (trixie) Updates: Kernel upgrade enabled and 1 package available for upgrade Support: DIY (custom image) sed: -e expression #1, char 0: no previous regular expression Performance: Load: 49% Uptime: 2 min Memory usage: 7% of 467M CPU temp: 36°C Usage of /: 6% of 29G Commands: Configuration : armbian-config Upgrade : armbian-upgrade Monitoring : htop
November 11, 2025Nov 11 Author Ehm I just noticed that I'm running 6.1.99 kernel I am using 6.1.115 otherwise. I am guessing U-boot and boot paritions are where I am headed next. This is getting quite heavy for a newbie like me DO NOT FOLLOW MY PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
November 11, 2025Nov 11 Solution Hey @Sune I'm the board maintainer. All you need to do is *erase* the onboard flash! I will be documenting this properly once the boards have been posted on the website 🙏 You need to use the Windows / Linux Rockchip tools, enter "Loader" mode and "Erase All". This will erase the onboard flash and allow the Zero W to boot entirely from the SD card.
November 12, 2025Nov 12 Author Ah! was that simple huh. Thanks vidplace7! Got it to work once i removed the image on the flash. But I have to put it in maskrom mode if i want to use the SPI in the future which is a pain. Ah well it is fine Also lsusb now works root@luckfox-lyra-zero-w:~# lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8152 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8152 Fast Ethernet Adapter Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1a86:8091 QinHeng Electronics USB HUB Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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