Armbian for Orange Pi + does not boot

[Hugo Cardozo]

Hello, I'm trying to boot an Orange Pi Plus with Armbian 5.20, and it does not work.

 

I've already check that both OPi and my sdcard work fine, because I can flash and boot the images on orangepi.org site.

 

Besides, I checked how u-boot starts with both Armbian and "debian server" orangepi.org image (both attached)

[Igor]

You have this board: https://linux-sunxi.org/Xunlong_Orange_Pi_Plus ?

[Hugo Cardozo]

Hello, according to Aliexpress page it is: https://www.aliexpress.com/snapshot/8037872883.html?orderId=77866093680184

[Igor]

OK, the problem could be related to this:

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/872-beelink-x2-with-armbian-possible/?p=15898

 

Try booting with Belink X2 images and if it goes further, we will rebuild images with new u-boot.

[Hugo Cardozo]

Will try that, thanks

[Hugo Cardozo]

Tried the Beelink image, got the same u-boot error

[Hugo Cardozo]

Hi! I've managed to make Armbian boot.

 

One of orangepi.org images could access the internal eMMC, so I thought that I could flash/boot that image, and then flash Armbian directly on eMMC. And that did the trick! Now my new OPi+ runs Armbian.

 

A tricky workaround, but it worked, so what the heck 

[tkaiser]

One of orangepi.org images could access the internal eMMC, so I thought that I could flash/boot that image, and then flash Armbian directly on eMMC. And that did the trick! Now my new OPi+ runs Armbian.

 

Thanks for reporting this. That means also we've a(nother) problem with mainline u-boot regarding access to SD card in early boot stage on some devices

 

If your time permits could you please download this image and just try to boot: Armbian_5.14_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112.7z  (this one uses an older u-boot version).

 

@Igor/@Zador: what about a H3 mini image that just contains u-boot/kernel and hands out the whole eMMC device as USB Mass Storage gadet (like it's done here). This way users could flash eMMC directly from Etcher (using the virtual USB thumb drive) and it would be also the fastest way to create an eMMC clone on the Fast Ethernet equipped devices.

[Hugo Cardozo]

 

If your time permits could you please download this image and just try to boot: Armbian_5.14_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112.7z  (this one uses an older u-boot version).

 

 

 

 

It didn't work, results attached.

 

First I thought that, after I flashed Armbian on eMMC, my OPi+ won't boot a SD card anymore, just like Odroid-C2. But the orangepi.org images can boot from SDcard 

[tkaiser]

Just for experiment I compiled sunxi-fel for Windows and installed libUSB driver in single click with Zadig tool. So we could provide an application/set of scripts for Linux and Windows to do this.

 

For OS X too:

macbookpro-tk:sunxi-tools tk$ ./sunxi-fel ver
AWUSBFEX soc=00001680(H3) 00000001 ver=0001 44 08 scratchpad=00007e00 00000000 00000000

It didn't work, results attached.

 

That's strange since u-boot+spl 2016.05 from the old image immediately try to boot u-boot 2016.09. Don't know what to think about 

[zador.blood.stained]

That's strange since u-boot+spl 2016.05 from the old image immediately try to boot u-boot 2016.09. Don't know what to think about 

U-boot 2016.05 had some issues detecting correct boot device. So looks like in this case SPL decides that it booted from eMMC and proceeds to load u-boot from eMMC instead of SD.

[Hugo Cardozo]

Hello, recently I've messed up the armbian installation in my OPi+. So I wanted to try again booting from microSD, with the latest armbian available (5.25 as of today). It still does not work.

 

I got the "debian jessie mini" image from Loboris' site (http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342), and after boot it I could dd the armbian image directly on OPi+ eMMC.