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Hi everybody!
I would like to add my two cent to this discussion.
I face similar problem with HC4 (not much difference with C4 as Igor pointed out). I run this board under Armbian Focal and got it updated a few hours ago and the board was not coming back online: no heart bit LED, HDDs spinning but heads seem to be parked, Ethernet showing 1 Gbps speed both on the board and on the switch. I had the same problem this Monday after I updated the board and the kernel but then network stack did not work until I restarted the board once again. I intend to use this board with 2x 4TB HDDs as a backup server for critical company data from the main ZFS@FeeBSD bare metal server and inability to do soft reset makes administration if this system less straightforward that usual.
At the moment of writing HC4 here rocks following software/firmware:
Quoteuname -a
Linux hc4bckp 5.10.81-meson64 #21.08.6 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 22 11:21:51 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
U-Boot
I have faced this issue with the HC4 server not being able to come online from a soft reboot a few time now. After some further research I came to a conclusion that it has little to do with kernel update itself but the board seems to boot somewhat differently from when it is a cold start as opposed to soft reboot. I have looked into kernel log and went through syslog, there is nothing bizarre there, all shutdown routines finish just fine: I had my encrypted RAID1 with LVM on top of it as one of the suspects but everything gets nicely unmount, LVM got stopped, and the whole system gets nicely shutdown. The interesting part seems to start at the boot: I hooked up a monitor and a keyboard to the server to see what is going on there. I cannot capture output in any proper way (had to film it with my smartphone) but, it it helps, I can arrange it tomorrow or next week as I have serial to USB adapter at home but not here at work. In short I see the system spits following messages:
QuoteHit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
** No partiton table - mmc 0 **
Card did not respond to voltage select: -110
MMC Device 2 not fount
no mmc device at slot 2
starting USB...
Bus usb@ff500000: Register 30000140 MbrPorts 3
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.10
scanning bus usb@ff500000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage device(s) found
Device 0: unknown device
Speed: 1000, full duplex
Boot broadcast 1
Boot broadcast 2
etc. till 5
and then
DHCP client bound to address 192.168.9.30 (3913 ms)
*** ERROR: 'serverip' not set
Cannot autoload with TFTPGET
missing environment variable: pxeuuid
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/*VARIOUS FILE NAMES*
Speed: 1000, full duplex
***ERROR: 'serverip' not set
and this continues for a while until (what seems like) the option in pxelinux.cfg are exhausted and then it just yields and got stuck there. If I issue reset command in U-Boot the whole cycle continues. This does not happen upon cold boot.And by the way, I boot Armbian with mainline U-Boot with the 'old' approach: I have deleted 4 partitions of petitboot (i.e. mtd0 through mtd3) can this somehow interfere with U-Boot here?
Is this helpful? Should I capture full U-Boot output via serial and post it here later?
Thank you for your time!
Odroid C4 will not reboot after any sort of kernel update - have tried running nand-sata-install
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Hi everyone,
I did some testing in the past days (no UART boot logs though):
In summary, it looks like Cornelius is right and some of the patches, which were submitted and accepted in the meantime, rendered soft boot of the board/amlogic SoC impossible. I guess I have to cope with it as it is now and shutdown/cold boot the system after each kernel update. Hope that someone with knowledge of this business will get down to the core of the problems (e.g. revert some of the late changes).
If there is anything that I can test further.