Turbine

I've posted a working solution here, until a better fix comes out or it's patched.

This is the fix I'm using, this bug should've been addressed but nobody seems to be talking about it. Remember to change the mac address. sudo nano /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/macchanger #!/bin/sh /sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa sudo chmod +x /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/macchanger Surely there's a better solution.

If ssd, self powered USB hub works. Although I'd just mount it and keep booting off the SD.

There's always USB3 if all else fails. I attached an externally powered hub and use a SATA ssd. I get very good throughput of around 300+ MB/s. I gave up on nvme M.2. drives as it was never stable under Armbian opi4 LTS (using pcie adaptor). It failed to boot 95% of the time. Moved to the 5 and tried and it didn't work well either.

None of the above solutions work for Windows. However I found a way to clone the entire drive to a compressed image file and have successfully restored it and booted back into Armbian. AOMEI Backupper Free -> Backup -> Disk Backup (bottom is folder to store backup, top is the sdcard/drive you want to select to backup)

I wasn't too upset with the wifi version. However those two 2.5gbps ethernet ports have me regretting the 5. You sure do need that good powersupply with this model. I have to run my external data SSD drive off of an externally powered USB hub too, as it draws too much power.

I'm using a kernel built from sources as there's another bug which the github sources resolve. The bundled kernel with the OS image does not kernel panic. (However this image only has around a 5% chance of mounting any nvme drive) Output: Dump from 'armbianmonitor -U' https://tmpfiles.org/dl/314994/dump.txt.tar (The Armbian self-hosted system seems to be a bit moody when it wants to work)

Thankyou Werner, manually updating worked. I wonder why armbian-config doesn't. It used to on my last device.

Hi, I'm someone who's suffering with an unreliable pcie nvme upon booting. Apparently there was a patch for this issue. Unfortunately the whole time I've owned this device - doing a kernel update via armbian-config will just stop your device from booting and even outputting to the display. Is there a repo just with the precompiled kernels in .deb form?

Hi Werner, I just collected output using UART for a successful and unsuccessful boot. I can't see anything that really sticks out, other than one gets stuck on 'starting kernel...', is there any way I can delay the booting of the SSD? Well I've tried a bunch of different USB type c cables and 2 x 5V 3A & 2 x 5V 2A adapters. So I can't help but feel there's a bug. As if it actually boots, it's fine from then on. There may be a power spike draw on boot or something. Successful boot: Unsuccessful boot:

Hi everyone, After migrating to a nvme ssd using the recommended official adapters, I've run into this issue. (Been really frustrating not been able to boot reliably, replug it until it works) Before I migrated, if I went fdisk -l it would start flashing and always show up. It's only when booting, it seems to be unable to boot/stay on most of the time. 1) I put power into pi. 2) The ssd blinks, if it stops blinking, it didn't boot. If it keeps blinking success. Is there a way to delay mounting the ssd or better debug this issue?

There's no way to change the device's target without a reinstall? Even if you compile the kernel and install the linux-firmware?

I've installed the OPI 4 image awhile ago for my PI as that was the only one available. I've since installed just the kernel targeting this model. Is there a way I can ensure future kernel updates will look for the lts model? Thank you. (Also the topic tags are missing the 4lts model as of this moment)