[Making EspressoBin V7 work in 2022 ...]

Hi Guido,

 

again thank you very much. Your links were for the Machiatobin which is Armada 8040 - the Espressobin is using 3720. However it gave me enough food for thought to sucessfully compile Ubuntu 14.04. LTS with it.

 

Just a short write up how it worked out for others and my later me:

 

1. Compile Kernel Image and DTB - latest supported Kernel is 4.4.8

https://web.archive.org/web/20210307141251/http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Build+From+Source+-+Kernel

 

2. Fix Errors during compilation 

/usr/bin/ld: scripts/dtc/dtc-parser.tab.o:(.bss+0x10): multiple definition of `yylloc'; scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here

sed -i 's/^YYLTYPE yylloc;$/extern YYLTYPE yylloc;/' scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.l sed -i 's/^YYLTYPE yylloc;$/extern YYLTYPE yylloc;/' scripts/dtc/dtc-lexer.lex.c

https://web.archive.org/save/https://forum.0cd.xyz/t/building-u-boot-for-the-espressobin/511

 

3. Prepare Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS to boot from SDCard

https://web.archive.org/save/http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Boot+from+removable+storage+-+Ubuntu

 

DONE

[Making EspressoBin V7 work in 2022 ...]

Hi eveyone,

 

I am coming from a a hint off Github here: https://github.com/armbian/documentation/issues/165. Igor was so kind and redirected me to this community.

 

I am struggling since beginning christmas to get my EspressoBin to latest versions out of dusty 2018 images.

Device

EspressoBin v7 DDR4 1G 1000_800Mhz

 

Baseline - What did I do?

- Update U-Boot according https://www.armbian.com/espressobin to devel-18.12.3

- Flashed SD-Card with armbian Focal via Balena according https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/

- Updated Boot Environment according https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/#kernels-archive-all

 

 

Problem Description

- U-Boot Loads and starts over to boot from SD-Card

- Booting from SD fails with

 

Marvell>> boot *** ERROR: serverip' not set
*** ERROR: serverip' not set Bad Linux ARM64 Image magic!

 

I would be very grateful for any hints how to get armbian booted on the EspressoBin in 2022!

Happy Holidays to all. cheers

 

 

Full Logs

U-Boot 2018.03-devel-18.12.3-gc9aa92ce70-armbian (Sep 18 2020 - 10:07:21 +0200)

Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin
CPU 1000 [MHz]
L2 800 [MHz]
TClock 200 [MHz]
DDR 800 [MHz]
DRAM: 1 GiB
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: USB3 5 Gbps
Comphy-1: PEX0 2.5 Gbps
Comphy-2: SATA0 6 Gbps
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs
PCIE-0: Link up
MMC: sdhci@d0000: 0
Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 4 MiB
OK
Model: Marvell Armada 3720 Community Board ESPRESSOBin
Net: eth0: neta@30000 [PRIME]

 

https://github.com/armbian/documentation/issues/165