Hi Experts,
I have a strange issue while Armbian installation to my Orange PI PC boards. So there are two SD cards with the same parameters:
1. smartbuy 8gb sdhc class 10
2. OltraMax 8gb sdhc class 10
The problem is that when I use smartbuy card I can install Armbian and it works fine. But when I use OltraMax card I can install Armbian but after first login it asks me the following:
Warning: a reboot is needed to finish resizing the filesystem
Please reboot the system as soon as possible
Ok, I do a reboot and Orange PI PC can't boot Armbian after. Moreover as can I understand I get a boot loader (u-boot) console where I can type some commands.
An interesting thing is that if I install Armbian using smartbuy card and then I make an IMG (full image) from it and write this IMG to OltraMax card so Armbian works fine from OltraMax card!
So I started an investigation and collected logs from both SD cards by the following plan:
1. Write IMG (Armbian 5.59 Debian Stretch) to SD card
2. Run Orange PI PC and install Armbian
3. Reboot Armbian
4. Login Armbian and shutdown (only with smartbuy card I can do that step).
Than I compared both logs and found some strange messages for OltraMax board:
Picture above shows first execution logs (in compare mode), OltraMax output contains messages about a "bad MBR sector signature".
Than when I installed both and did a first login using root 1234 I find another artifact:
Take a look at Usage of values. Seems like smartbuy extended it's FS size while installation but OltraMax no, it's still 1GB. And OltraMax have a message I mention above (reboot for fs resizing).
Than I did a restart and faced a current issue:
As I understand something wrong with FS resizing on OltraMax card probably because of "bad MBR sector signatures"
So can anybody heIp me? I do want to understand why it happens and find a workaround because I bought about 14 OltraMax cards for my Orange Pi PC cluster.
I may attach both logs if it's needed.
Thanks,
Kornev
