February 13Feb 13 I assume I should be using the MTD/SPI for u-boot on this device? If so, how do I update it and choose the boot order? armbian-install complains "No SPI image found." if I select "Install/Update the bootloader on MTD Flash"
February 13Feb 13 see: https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e25#techspec Only SD-card for this device, hence boot order is something fixed, just hardware. On software level it depends on how U-Boot it configured and compiled and on higher level, what partitions are found, can also be USB-stick, and what is on those partitions. Can be Armbian standard boot.scr or own extlinux or even EFI if you want. So minimum is SD-card with U-Boot on it, else nothing will happen unless maskROM is entered, see Radxa docs. Edited February 13Feb 13 by eselarm
February 13Feb 13 Author The e25 that I have has SD, eMMC and NVME storage options. It has an MTD/SPI as well. Pretty sure it's similar to the Cubie a5e where you can set the boot order in the SPI, however I just chatGPT'd the shit out of that one to get it sorted. I'd prefer to do it the "approved/armbian" way... Again, I assume having U-Boot in the SPI is the appropriate way to do things so I can boot from any of these devices (and perhaps even external USB?). I'd like to understand how to do that if someone knows?
February 13Feb 13 OK, so the URL I posted is not correct. If those devices are there, your only option is to use dd with correct offsets on SPI/MTD or eMMC ( or SD-card) to write a U-Boot binary. An lsblk should show those devices, else maybe the armbian-install tool is likely correct with its error message. Edited February 13Feb 13 by eselarm
February 14Feb 14 13 hours ago, Meestor_X said: Pretty sure it's similar to the Cubie a5e where you can set the boot order in the SPI, however I just chatGPT'd the shit out of that one to get it sorted. I'd prefer to do it the "approved/armbian" way... This is putting some sort of warning flag for myself. 'pretty sure', 'chatGPT', a Rockchip board v.s. Allwinner board.
February 14Feb 14 Author Not excited AT ALL about Allwinner, but there are few (actually none that I've found?) choices for low-priced, "higher performance" SBCs with WiFi 6, BT 5.4, USB3, GB Ethernet, PoE and a small size and factory case. I'll take anything rockchip in a heartbeat I much prefer their chips. My go-to has been the RockPI-S, but it's low performance CPU, WiFi 4, BT 4, 100M Ethernet, USB2, and getting pretty old. AFAIK, there's nothing out there that checks all the boxes, sadly.
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