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Hi there, I also tried to see what happens when I set the DIP to SATA0, but to my surprise, the serial console does not give any indication of a boot attempt from SATA: BootROM - 1.73 Booting from SPI flash BootROM: Bad header at offset D4000000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4200000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4400000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4600000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4800000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4A00000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4C00000 BootROM: Bad header at offset D4E00000 Trying Uart And yes, DIP was set to SATA0. To note: there was a blinking red LED prior to the output on the serial console. When I re-set the DIP to SPI, it boots up without issue: Booting from SPI flash U-Boot SPL 2025.10_armbian-2025.10-Se50b-Pee16-H9530-V9a59-Bbf55-R448a (Nov 23 2025 - 08:27:54 +0000) High speed PHY - Version: 2.0 Detected Device ID 6828 board SerDes lanes topology details: | Lane # | Speed | Type | -------------------------------- | 0 | 6 | SATA0 | | 1 | 5 | USB3 HOST0 | | 2 | 6 | SATA1 | | 3 | 6 | SATA3 | | 4 | 6 | SATA2 | | 5 | 5 | USB3 HOST1 | -------------------------------- High speed PHY - Ended Successfully mv_ddr: 14.0.0 DDR3 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window DDR Training Sequence - Start scrubbing DDR3 Training Sequence - End scrubbing mv_ddr: completed successfully Trying to boot from SPI U-Boot 2025.10_armbian-2025.10-Se50b-Pee16-H9530-V9a59-Bbf55-R448a (Nov 23 2025 - 08:27:54 +0000) SoC: MV88F6828-A0 at 1600 MHz DRAM: 2 GiB (800 MHz, 32-bit, ECC enabled) Core: 32 devices, 21 uclasses, devicetree: separate MMC: mv_sdh: 0 Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected w25q32 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB OK Model: Helios4 Board: Helios4 ... It almost appears that the DIP is not read out properly? What does your console say when you set the DIP to SATA0? Groetjes,

Hi @wolf7250, The $PWD is an environment variable that represents the current working directory. The lone period "." also represents the current working directory. $PWD has nothing to do with your password - unless your folder names are the same as your password and/or vice versa. As to your question, yes, I would think a fresh reinstall from scratch is going to be the best way forward. But I have no idea how easy that will be with transferring OMV settings from old to new etc. OMV is unbeknownst to me. On the other hand, if the workaround with the new load addresses in `armbianEnv.txt` work (and they seem to work just fine) it's more of a matter of how "correct" you want your situation to be. Things seems to be working. Groetjes,

Hi @wolf7250, You can download the package without installing as follows: cd /tmp/ mkdir fliepeltje cd /tmp/fliepeltje/ apt-get download armbian-bsp-cli-helios4-current dpkg -x armbian-bsp-cli-helios4_*.deb ${PWD:?} Then backup the current bootscript as follows: cd /boot/ sudo cp boot.cmd boot.cmd~org sudo cp boot.scr boot.scr~org Then copy the new bootscript and convert it to U-Boot script format as follows: cd /boot/ sudo cp /tmp/fliepeltje/usr/share/armbian/boot.cmd ${PWD:?} sudo mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d boot.cmd boot.scr Then reboot to check if all went well. Gr, PS syntax is on purpose, of course you can replace ${PWD:?} with . but that might be easy to miss when reading the instruction.

Hi, Seems you have upgraded for several years already? Perhaps something has changed over the years, meaning that the armbian-bsp-cli package did not get installed somehow. I am not sure what will happen if you DO install that package now, so the safest best would be to just get the bootscript from the package and convert it on your machine. Gr,

Hi there, How about the output of dpkg --list | grep 'armbian' lsb_release -a cat /etc/armbian-release ? Just to be sure, you are using armbian right? Gr,

Hi, Hmm that looks like the "old" bootscript still. Odd. Can you share the output of dpkg --list | grep 'bsp-cli' ?

Hi there, U-Boot was updated. Can you share the contents of `/boot/boot.cmd`? Just to be sure 🙂 Groetjes,

Hi @wolf7250, If you have doubts or concerns, you can leave the workaround in `armbianEnv.txt` and check the serial console output to verify that U-Boot was updated and the new bootscript is doing it's job. After verfication, you can remove the workaround (fixed load addresses) from `armbianEnv.txt`. The new bootscript will try to calculate the load addresses and if it cannot do that (due to missing U-Boot command) it will default back to the fixed load addresses - which you will have overruled with the ones in `armbianEnv.txt`. Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, I'm not familiar with OMV, so not sure what that update/upgrade process looks like. If it will update/upgrade the armbian packages to the latest release 25.11, then the correct version of armbian-bsp-cli will be installed. The installation of that package should update /boot/boot.scr and make a new U-Boot image available that you would have to install with nand-sata-install. Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, The correct U-Boot and bootscript is for sure in the newest release. I built recently and all is there and working without issue on my helios4. Let's unravel what is happening for you and get that sorted out. Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, That does not look like the new bootscript. Did you update already? To get it working again, you can try the quick workaround as you pointed to earlier, which should allow more room for U-Boot loading kernel, initrd and the rest. Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, Can you post the serial console output? Want to make sure the new U-Boot and bootscript are used. Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, Should be, yes. If not, do check back in here 🙂 Gr,

Hi @wolf7250, When you upgrade, one of the packages will update the bootscript (/boot/boot.scr), that will prevent a load address conflict - this should be armbian-bsp-cli iirc. The new bootscript will either calculate the load addresses or use new defaults to avoid the image overlap/"corruption" issue. The U-Boot for the helios4 has been updated as well to enable load address calculation, instead of using hardcoded values. To update U-Boot, run nand-sata-install and select to "install/update the bootloader on SD/MMC" (see here). Groetjes,

I think it still makes sense. And in the off chance that you DO find you have some time leftover, it's also nice to tinker and hobby about with. Mine is still running Buster and has not missed a beat since I got the thing - besides some issues with the SATA connector on the top drive and the inability to upgrade RAM. Groetjes,