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Thank you very much Igor ! Yes it helps me. I will keep you posted on the solution found, so that it benefits others.

I read the u-boot documentation: https://github.com/ARM-software/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.usb I plan to disable USB bus scan by u-boot. It seems to match the CONFIG_USB_STORAGE definition in u-boot/include/configs I would have to do it with a patch: https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/patch/u-boot/u-boot-sunxi ? Could you tell me if there is an Armbian tutorial for reconfiguring u-boot ? Is it necessary to rebuild the whole image or can we change u-boot on an existing image ? Thanks for your help.

After several tries, I just figured out why I have a NanoPi Neo Core with mini-shield that works with the new version. In fact, it is equipped with an M2 SSD, as soon as it is in place, the system boots correctly. The minishield's JMS567-LGBB1A controller happens to use the USB3 bus (attached the diagram). When I install the SSD, I have this: U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 63 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface1 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 1 Storage Device(s) found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 It is this line : scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found that is different. Without SSD, I have this: scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0x248d80 Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 Once again, I remind you, everything works correctly with the old FriendlyARM system, we have this: BOARD: nanopi-neo-core starting USB... No controllers found So the uboot code is different, it doesn't scan USB buses. I'm going to find out if you can disable USB bus scanning in uboot...

As I said at the beginning of this post, I'm using Nano Pi Core LTS with the mini-Shield, the previous message corresponds to this scenario. When I put the same SD card with the new Armbian version in a NanoPi Neo 1.3, I have this : U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 63 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface1 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 4021 bytes read in 4 ms (981.4 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 182 bytes read in 4 ms (43.9 KiB/s) 9710442 bytes read in 404 ms (22.9 MiB/s) 8387264 bytes read in 350 ms (22.9 MiB/s) Found mainline kernel configuration 32454 bytes read in 11 ms (2.8 MiB/s) 504 bytes read in 8 ms (61.5 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-usbhost1.dtbo 504 bytes read in 8 ms (61.5 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-usbhost2.dtbo 4185 bytes read in 9 ms (454.1 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun8i-h3-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 45000000 Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x7ffac0 ] ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 43400000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 9710378 Bytes = 9.3 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000 EHCI failed to shut down host controller. Loading Ramdisk to 496bd000, end 49fffb2a ... OK Loading Device Tree to 4964c000, end 496bcfff ... OK Starting kernel ... So it works, the problem comes from there, you are on a NanoPi Neo, and I am on a NanoPi Neo Core with minishield. This issue is present on almost all NanoPi Neo Core with minishield, so it is not a hardware issue. Also, all boards that have this problem work fine with the old FriendlyARM system. There would therefore be a difference to take into account between the NanoPi Neo and the NanoPi Neo Core.

With the new version, it's worse ! it keeps crashing and rebooting... U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 63 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface1 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0xd8d80 Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 00 00 00 prefetch abort pc : [<eff6fffa>] lr : [<5ffa3c81>] reloc pc : [<d9fe6ffa>] lr : [<4a01ac81>] sp : 5bf60008 ip : 0000001c fp : 5ffde6a2 r10: 5ffe5340 r9 : 5bf68ec0 r8 : 00000000 r7 : 00000000 r6 : 5bf92e78 r5 : a0000000 r4 : 5bf6d188 r3 : eff6ffff r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 5bf6d188 Flags: NzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 (T) Code: 0000 0000 0000 0000 (0000) 0000 Resetting CPU ... resetting ... U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 63 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface1 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0x248d80 Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 prefetch abort pc : [<eff6fffa>] lr : [<5ffa3c81>] reloc pc : [<d9fe6ffa>] lr : [<4a01ac81>] sp : 5bf60008 ip : 0000001c fp : 5ffde6a2 r10: 5ffe5340 r9 : 5bf68ec0 r8 : 00000000 r7 : 00000000 r6 : 5bf92e78 r5 : a0000000 r4 : 5bf6d188 r3 : eff6ffff r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 5bf6d188 Flags: NzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 (T) Code: 0000 0000 0000 0000 (0000) 0000 Resetting CPU ... resetting ... U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Oct 15 2022 - 16:08:01 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB Core: 63 devices, 17 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@1c20ca0 MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface1 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 prefetch abort pc : [<eff6fffa>] lr : [<5ffa3c81>] reloc pc : [<d9fe6ffa>] lr : [<4a01ac81>] sp : 5bf60008 ip : 0000001c fp : 5ffde6a2 r10: 5ffe5340 r9 : 5bf68ec0 r8 : 00000000 r7 : 00000000 r6 : 5bf92e78 r5 : a0000000 r4 : 5bf6d188 r3 : eff6ffff r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 5bf6d188 Flags: NzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 (T) Code: 0000 0000 0000 0000 (0000) 0000 Resetting CPU ... resetting ...

In fact the problem has not disappeared, I have just changed NanoPi and the problem reappears... As soon as I switch to the old FriendlyARM system the problem disappears. U-Boot SPL 2021.10-armbian (Aug 30 2022 - 06:46:03 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2021.10-armbian (Aug 30 2022 - 06:46:03 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 Error: ethernet@1c30000 address not set. No ethernet found. starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0xd8d80 Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3964 bytes read in 4 ms (967.8 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 267 bytes read in 3 ms (86.9 KiB/s) 9711899 bytes read in 407 ms (22.8 MiB/s) 8387520 bytes read in 355 ms (22.5 MiB/s) Found mainline kernel configuration 32454 bytes read in 12 ms (2.6 MiB/s) 504 bytes read in 9 ms (54.7 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-usbhost1.dtbo 504 bytes read in 9 ms (54.7 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay sun8i-h3-usbhost2.dtbo 399 bytes read in 4 ms (96.7 KiB/s) Applying user provided DT overlay nanopi-neo-stable-mac.dtbo 4185 bytes read in 8 ms (510.7 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun8i-h3-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 45000000 Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x7ffbc0 ] ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 43400000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 9711835 Bytes = 9.3 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000 EHCI failed to shut down host controller. Loading Ramdisk to 496bc000, end 49fff0db ... OK Loading Device Tree to 4964b000, end 496bbfff ... OK I will try to recompile the latest version like you.

On the other hand, there is always another problem which is that the board has a random MAC address and not that of the manufacturer... I solved the problem with an overlay file in device tree. nanopi-neo-stable-mac.dts

You were right I solved the problem with version 22.08.4 Thank you for your help.

No, I'm using Armbian version 22.08, but it doesn't work. On the other hand, it works with the version of FriendlyARM which dates from 2017...

This is what is displayed with the FriendlyARM version: U-Boot SPL 2017.11 (May 10 2018 - 18:05:50) DRAM: 512 MiB(408MHz) CPU Freq: 408MHz Trying to boot from MMC2 U-Boot 2017.11 (May 10 2018 - 18:05:50 +0800) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyElec NanoPi H3 DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 1, SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: No ethernet found. eMMC exist, PC6=1 BOARD: nanopi-neo-core starting USB... No controllers found Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot.scr [...] We can see that the USB scan says it did not find any controllers

Yes, this happens on all versions of Armbian that I have tested. On the other hand, I just did a test, because I read a comment that you had posted on another post which incriminated the hardware. I isolated the Nano Pi Core from the mini-shield and the problem disappeared. What I can't figure out is that the problem is not with friendlyARM's OS. So the problem could be related to the way uboot performs its scan ? What do you think about it ? Thanks.

Hello, I have a problem with uboot, during its scan of USB buses, it blocks for several tens of seconds, displays an error, then boots. Sometimes it blocks completely and it takes several ON/OFF attempts to get it started. I'm using Nano Pi Core LTS with the mini-shield, I have over 20 and it's happening on all of them. This is what is displayed when it finally starts : U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Aug 08 2021 - 15:18:24 +0200) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2020.10-armbian (Aug 08 2021 - 15:18:24 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 Error: ethernet@1c30000 address not set. No ethernet found. starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Autoboot in 1 seconds switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3964 bytes read in 6 ms (644.5 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc [...] And when it completely blocks: U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Aug 08 2021 - 15:18:24 +0200) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2020.10-armbian (Aug 08 2021 - 15:18:24 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c11000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: phy interface0 Error: ethernet@1c30000 address not set. No ethernet found. starting USB... Bus usb@1c1a000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1a400: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@1c1d000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@1c1d400: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus usb@1c1a000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1a400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d000 for devices... EHCI timed out on TD - token=0xd8d80 Device NOT ready Request Sense returned 04 44 81 2 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@1c1d400 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Autoboot in 1 seconds The problem does not occur with FriendlyARM's operating system. So it seems to me that the hardware is not at fault ? Have you ever encountered this problem and do you have a solution ? Thanks

This problem is still present in version 5.83 of Armbian. I actually see the presence of the line in /etc/environment This is not normal, this line should not be there. see in the debian Wiki : Warning! Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it overrides everything. Please use it only when testing and never set it in a startup file. The good solution is to remove this line of /etc/environment