[Trying to get armbian to boot from emmc.]

I have exactly the same board and in this video that guy had no issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Sdu9pTMs4

 

It was 3 years ago though, but for him it worked somehow.

 

[Single Armbian image for RK + AML + AW (aarch64 ARMv8)]

On 5/9/2020 at 4:46 AM, balbes150 said:

 

Contact the hardware manufacturer to develop and source the correct DTB for the mainline kernel with support for all devices for your models.

@balbes150 do you mean this is a hardware isse and it's just a matter of right mapping inside DTB?

 

Thanks.

[Single Armbian image for RK + AML + AW (aarch64 ARMv8)]

Hello.

Big thanks to balbes150 for supporting this project and everyonelse answering questions as well.

I was able to boot from the USB drive into Armbian but run into an issue when copying to eMMC.

It is intermittent, but it seems that Armbian is not seeing my internal memory. In those rare cases when it does (mutliple reboot tries) it throws errors (see below) when I run install script.

At this moment of time I am about to give up, as I've spent 2 days on this issue trying different images. 

Is there anything else I can do? 

Thank you.

NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0      179:0    0  7.2G  0 disk
mmcblk0boot0 179:32   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk0boot1 179:64   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk2      179:96   0  7.4G  0 disk
├─mmcblk2p1  179:97   0  512M  0 part /boot
└─mmcblk2p2  179:98   0  6.8G  0 part /
zram0        254:0    0   50M  0 disk /var/log
zram1        254:1    0  399M  0 disk [SWAP]
root@arm-64:~# sh install-aml-s905-emmc.sh
Start script create MBR and filesystem
/dev/mmcblk0
Start backup u-boot default
dd: error reading '/dev/mmcblk0': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.00227871 s, 0.0 kB/s
Start install u-boot to eMMC
dd: writing to '/dev/mmcblk0': Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.00114721 s, 0.0 kB/s
Done
Start copy system for eMMC.
Formatting BOOT partition...mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/mmcblk0p1: No such file or directory
done.
mount: /ddbr/install: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist.