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Each attached memory disk must have its own unique UUID. This is its essence. This depends on the platform (BROM bootloader flashed into the chip) and possibly the switch soldered to the board.

Hello all, I succeed to boot on sata usb by seting the UUID of the armbian_root from mmcblk1p1 to sda1 I tested several M2 SSD enclosures both NVME and NGFF most of the time, one in the middle, has a USB Hub and micro SDCARD port. Now if the USB enclosures is not connected, we are stuck in initramfs stage because the UIID partition given in /boot/ArmbianEnv.txt does not exist. I changed the UUID of emmc armbian_root (mmcblk1p1) thinking it would be overmapped with partition of S2 usb enclosure (sda1). It is not the case, it will only boot on emmc , ignoring S2 enclosures when mmcblk1p1 and sda1 shares the same UUID. I suggest USB enclosures should comes in higher boot priority than emmc after a bootable sdcard is present or not, so the end user is not lost in initramfs jungle.

``` root@opi5 /etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease Hit:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Hit:6 http://mirror.vinehost.net/armbian/apt trixie InRelease Reading package lists... Done W: https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease: Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details N: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'http://deb.debian.org/debian' ``` ``` root@opi5 /etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get update --audit Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-backports InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease Hit:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Hit:6 http://mirror.vinehost.net/armbian/apt trixie InRelease Reading package lists... Done W: https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease: Policy will reject signature within a year, see --audit for details A: https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease: Sub-process /usr/bin/sqv returned an error code (1), error message is: Signing key on DF00FAF1C577104B50BF1D0093D6889F9F0E78D5 is not bound: No binding signature at time 2025-09-08T18:12:20Z because: Policy rejected non-revocation signature (PositiveCertification) requiring second pre-image resistance because: SHA1 is not considered secure since 2026-02-01T00:00:00Z Missing key 8CFA83D13EB2181EEF5843E41EB30FAF236099FE, which is needed to verify signature. N: Missing Signed-By in the sources.list(5) entry for 'http://deb.debian.org/debian' ``` **/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian-config.sources** ``` Types: deb URIs: https://github.armbian.com/configng Suites: stable Components: main Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg ``` **/etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.sources** ``` Types: deb URIs: http://apt.armbian.com/ Suites: trixie Components: main trixie-utils trixie-desktop Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/armbian.gpg ``` **/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-backports.sources** ``` # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list Types: deb URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/ Suites: trixie-backports Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Signed-By: ``` **/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources** ``` # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list Types: deb URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/ Suites: trixie Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list Types: deb URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/ Suites: trixie-updates Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg # Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list Types: deb URIs: http://security.debian.org/ Suites: trixie-security Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg ``` How to fix it?

Currently yes. A replacement for this package / service needs to be found and implement - in case you want to get involved. Thank you! It's a work of many people, impossible for me to poke into every issue or feature that exists

@Igor Thanks for that, I guess I can move on to the newer tools. So does that mean that the GOVERNOR and CPUMIN params are useless and can be discarded? And BTW your Armbian tools are utterly fantastic.

Taken from desktop Gnome - works Updated the showip alias for those interested.

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The file exists in the sd card, as expected. root@x96q-lpddr3-v1-3:~# ls -l /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37577 Apr 2 19:41 /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb It also exists inside the installed eMMC filesystem (after installing -- without rebooting -- I mounted the /dev/mmcblk2 device and the file is there, in the correct place). root@x96q-lpddr3-v1-3:~# mount /dev/mmcblk2p1 /srv/ root@x96q-lpddr3-v1-3:~# ls -l /srv/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37577 Sep 10 21:16 /srv/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb Before rebooting, I re-ran armbian-install and used option 6 to re-write boot on eMMC just in case. Then rebooted. Then it worked!! It is booting from eMMC normally now.... Boot log from successful boot: U-Boot SPL 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-S6d41-P7151-H8869-V98f7-Bb703-R448a-dirty (Apr 02 2025 - 21:19:05 -04 00) DRAM:testing 32-bit width, rank = 2 read calibration failed! testing 32-bit width, rank = 1 DRAM:Store cfg DRAM:1st writing pattern DRAM:detecting column address bits detected 10 columns DRAM:restore cfg DRAM:reconfigure for all active rows DRAM:store cfg DRAM:2nd writing pattern DRAM:detecting row address bits detected 15 rows DRAM:restoring cfg DRAM:end of auto detect dram size MBUS port 0 cfg0 0100000d cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 1 cfg0 06000009 cfg1 01000578 MBUS port 2 cfg0 0200000d cfg1 00600100 MBUS port 3 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00500064 MBUS port 4 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 5 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 6 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 8 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00400080 MBUS port 11 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 14 cfg0 04000009 cfg1 00400100 MBUS port 16 cfg0 2000060d cfg1 09600af0 MBUS port 21 cfg0 0800060d cfg1 02000300 MBUS port 22 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 25 cfg0 0064000f cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 26 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 37 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00400080 MBUS port 38 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 39 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 40 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.10.14(debug):armbian NOTICE: BL31: Built : 18:07:43, Apr 2 2025 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner H616 SoC (1823) NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x4a0b2520, model: hechuang,x96-q LPDDR3 v1.3 INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized INFO: Configuring SPC Controller INFO: PMIC: Probing AXP305 on RSB ERROR: RSB: set run-time address: 0x10003 INFO: Could not init RSB: -65539 INFO: BL31: Platform setup done INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 855873 was applied INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 1530924 was applied INFO: PSCI: Suspend is unavailable INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x4a000000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 INFO: Changed devicetree. ns16550_serial serial@5000000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle_id: err=-19 U-Boot 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-S6d41-P7151-H8869-V98f7-Bb703-R448a-dirty (Apr 02 2025 - 21:19:05 -0400) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H616 (SUN50I) Model: hechuang,x96-q LPDDR3 v1.3 DRAM: 1 GiB Core: 59 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@30090a0 MMC: mmc@4020000: 0, mmc@4021000: 3, mmc@4022000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:1... In: serial@5000000 Out: serial@5000000 Err: serial@5000000 No USB device found Net: apply fix for AC300 ephy bb version bug ... using AC300 emac1 ephy default config ... eth0: ethernet@5030000 starting USB... No USB controllers found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 4641 bytes read in 1 ms (4.4 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 4fc00000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 252 bytes read in 0 ms Load fdt: /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 ** Bad device specification mmc 0 ** 37577 bytes read in 3 ms (11.9 MiB/s) Working FDT set to 4fa00000 Failed to load '/boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay/sun50i-h616-fixup.scr' 15483712 bytes read in 492 ms (30 MiB/s) 42621440 bytes read in 1351 ms (30.1 MiB/s) Moving Image from 0x40080000 to 0x40200000, end=0x42b50000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 4ff00000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 15483648 Bytes = 14.8 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 4fa00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x4fa00000 Working FDT set to 4fa00000 Loading Ramdisk to 4913b000, end 49fff300 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 00000000490c9000, end 000000004913afff ... OK Working FDT set to 490c9000 Starting kernel ...

@Andre Ruiz that’s weird uboot loaded boot.scr Check if “/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb” exists and path is correct. Make sure it’s not 0 bytes.

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From desktops I tested Gnome - works.

I looked at this for an hour and unfortunately can't figure it out. It seems that Olimex didn't 'fork' from Armbian, instead did something else to make their clone of your code.

@Nick A I tested images from your repo and still can't get one to boot properly from the eMMC in my hardware. The hardware is a X96Q LPDDR3 v1.3 (I'm pretty sure since this info is written in the mainboard). Tested image was Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-lpddr3-v1-3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_server.img. When booting from SD card, it works. After installing to eMMC and booting from it, I get: [ 2044.312802] reboot: Power down U-Boot SPL 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-S6d41-P7151-H8869-V98f7-Bb703-R448a-dirty (Apr 02 2025 - 21:19:05 -04 00) DRAM:testing 32-bit width, rank = 2 read calibration failed! testing 32-bit width, rank = 1 DRAM:Store cfg DRAM:1st writing pattern DRAM:detecting column address bits detected 10 columns DRAM:restore cfg DRAM:reconfigure for all active rows DRAM:store cfg DRAM:2nd writing pattern DRAM:detecting row address bits detected 15 rows DRAM:restoring cfg DRAM:end of auto detect dram size MBUS port 0 cfg0 0100000d cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 1 cfg0 06000009 cfg1 01000578 MBUS port 2 cfg0 0200000d cfg1 00600100 MBUS port 3 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00500064 MBUS port 4 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 5 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 6 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 8 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00400080 MBUS port 11 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 14 cfg0 04000009 cfg1 00400100 MBUS port 16 cfg0 2000060d cfg1 09600af0 MBUS port 21 cfg0 0800060d cfg1 02000300 MBUS port 22 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00640080 MBUS port 25 cfg0 0064000f cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 26 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 37 cfg0 01000009 cfg1 00400080 MBUS port 38 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 MBUS port 39 cfg0 20000209 cfg1 1388157c MBUS port 40 cfg0 00640209 cfg1 00200040 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.10.14(debug):armbian NOTICE: BL31: Built : 18:07:43, Apr 2 2025 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner H616 SoC (1823) NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0x4a0b2520, model: hechuang,x96-q LPDDR3 v1.3 INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized INFO: Configuring SPC Controller INFO: PMIC: Probing AXP305 on RSB ERROR: RSB: set run-time address: 0x10003 INFO: Could not init RSB: -65539 INFO: BL31: Platform setup done INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 855873 was applied INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for erratum 1530924 was applied INFO: PSCI: Suspend is unavailable INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x4a000000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 INFO: Changed devicetree. ns16550_serial serial@5000000: pinctrl_select_state_full: uclass_get_device_by_phandle_id: err=-19 U-Boot 2025.01-armbian-2025.01-S6d41-P7151-H8869-V98f7-Bb703-R448a-dirty (Apr 02 2025 - 21:19:05 -0400) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H616 (SUN50I) Model: hechuang,x96-q LPDDR3 v1.3 DRAM: 1 GiB Core: 59 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@30090a0 MMC: mmc@4020000: 0, mmc@4021000: 3, mmc@4022000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:1... In: serial@5000000 Out: serial@5000000 Err: serial@5000000 No USB device found Net: apply fix for AC300 ephy bb version bug ... using AC300 emac1 ephy default config ... eth0: ethernet@5030000 starting USB... No USB controllers found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 4641 bytes read in 1 ms (4.4 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 4fc00000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 252 bytes read in 1 ms (246.1 KiB/s) The file sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb was not found in the path /boot/dtb/allwinner Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 ** Bad device specification mmc 0 ** Failed to load '/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb' libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC No FDT memory address configured. Please configure the FDT address via "fdt addr <address>" command. Aborting! 4203 bytes read in 3 ms (1.3 MiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun50i-h616-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 45000000 16776355 bytes read in 532 ms (30.1 MiB/s) 32059904 bytes read in 1017 ms (30.1 MiB/s) Moving Image from 0x40080000 to 0x40200000, end=0x42170000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 4ff00000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 16776291 Bytes = 16 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 SCRIPT FAILED: continuing... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 Cannot persist EFI variables without system partition Loading Boot0000 'mmc 1' failed EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 starting USB... No USB controllers found USB is stopped. Please issue 'usb start' first. starting USB... No USB controllers found ethernet@5030000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete......... TIMEOUT ! [...] Note that it says "U-boot loaded from SD" but it was not, there is no SD plugged in in this test. Also, It got much further than the upstream one. U-boot was loaded (all stages), it found the boot script & initrd, but then fell apart when loading dtb and booting kernel. Another very interesting issue is that this image that booted fine on the first time, will not boot again from the SD a second time (it hits the same issue as above even from the SD card). I need to re-flash the SD so it will boot again. Very weird.

Hi, I'm still having this issue after installing qemu-emulators-full and qemu-user-static on the host (arch) does anyone have any idea or workaround ?

Screenshot from something working? because everything is black, cursor left upper corner. I have Xorg log, if you need other logs please specify the ones you need. edit: this is from the Armbian 25.8.2 Trixie XFCE 1.3GB image installed to emmc. Xorg.tgz

I'm thinking of getting https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beagley-ai I see there is this page for it https://www.armbian.com/beagley-ai/ I also see references to it in the code: https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aarmbian+beagley&type=code Are there any pre-built images available for it? Or would I have to build one?

Hi, Thanks for reporting this. Could you please open a thread with all the details? Screenshots and logs would be greatly appreciated Talk soon.

Nick, thanks, I'll take a look and report back.

I have just tried MiniArch and the installation on eMMC was successful, it boots normally. --- MiniMyth2 to eMMC installer v5.0 (c)Piotr Oniszczuk --- Ooo...you are running hechuang,x96-qallwinner,sun50i-h616 Allwinner detected...Good! SDcard device : mmcblk0 eMMC device : mmcblk2 UFS device : N/A System booted from : SD card (mmcblk0) Boot device has : p2 partitions Boot device usage : 1768MB [...] copying 1768MB to eMMC/UFS ... ==> copying from: mmcblk0 to: eMMC/UFS (mmcblk2) ... copying to eMMC/UFS done ... copying bootloader to eMMC/UFS ... But then again it uses a very recent version of u-boot: U-Boot 2025.04 (Aug 15 2025 - 18:43:21 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H616 (SUN50I) Model: hechuang,x96-q LPDDR3 v1.3 DRAM: 1 GiB Core: 59 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@30090a0 MMC: mmc@4020000: 0, mmc@4021000: 3, mmc@4022000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to read "uboot.env" from mmc1:1... In: serial@5000000 Out: serial@5000000 Err: serial@5000000 No USB device found Net: apply fix for AC300 ephy bb version bug ... using AC300 emac1 ephy default config ... eth0: ethernet@5030000 starting USB... No USB controllers found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf 1: MiniMyth2 Retrieving file: /Image append: root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait earlycon console=ttyS0,115200n8 loglevel=6 consoleblank=0 fsck.mode=auto fsck.repair=yes Retrieving file: /dtbs/allwinner/sun50i-h313-x96-q-lpddr3.dtb Moving Image from 0x40080000 to 0x40200000, end=0x42190000 ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 4fa00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x4fa00000 Working FDT set to 4fa00000 Loading Device Tree to 0000000049ff5000, end 0000000049fff691 ... OK Working FDT set to 49ff5000 Starting kernel ... Which makes me believe that the only thing missing here is some fix on u-boot side.

my uboot was armbian 2025.1, so I have no idea why it wasn't working with even Armbian mainline trixie.

The easiest route is to simply flash it to a microsd card and boot from it. Once booted issue "armbian-install" to move the OS and boot loader to eMMC. eMMC should be accessible directly if tools like rkdeveltool or whatever that is called is used. Never used that personally, seems tricky to use. Prefer first path.

Not having correct uboot on spi can often lead to such issues. Also sometimes vendor kernel does not like mainline uboot and vice versa. This is why vendor kernel based images usually are shipped with vendor uboot which is version 2017.09 I think. Anyway glad you figured it out

I'll fix that soon Edit:done

@SuperKali This is a blast, been going at it all day. There is no board option for the R76S yet and I cannot post an issue without one. Images tested: Armbian 25.8.2 Noble Gnome Seems to work all right Armbian 25.8.2 Trixie Minimal / IOTX Xorg: cannot run in framebuffer mode. (card /dev/dri/card0), cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support. Armbian 25.8.2 Trixie XFCE Xorg: cannot run in framebuffer mode. (card /dev/dri/card0), cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support. It was tremendous fun

@Andre Ruiz I might already have those patches in my build. Try the x96q images here. Also, you should change the log level to 7 in armbianEnv.txt. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306