onzelin

Last update, I got it to work, so here are a few pointers for the next one reading this. The issue is that I edited armbianEnv.txt correctly, but somehow the dtb file was missing (most likely due to being merged with the one in use, despite this work being WIP and not working for the emmc/wifi). I read a little about dts/dtb, this is a good resource, but TLDR dts stands for device tree source and dtb for device tree blob. The former compiles into the latter, and armbianEnv.txt wants the blob, not the source (could compile on demand? who am I to judge). The dts for the 5b is somewhere out there to be compiled into the dtb, but since I knew I had the orangePI debian working, I searched for the dtb there first, and found it. I copied is over to a freshly compiled image, pointed the boot record to it, and was able to make it all work. Here are a few commands. I first mounted `Orangepi5_1.1.4_debian_bullseye_desktop_kde-plasma_linux5.10.110.img` on my own machine (not the pi): fdisk -l /media/data/projects/2023/orangepi/images/Orangepi5_1.1.4_debian_bullseye_desktop_kde-plasma_linux5.10.110.img # 512B block size * partition 1 located at 61440=31457280 sudo mount -o loop,offset=31457280 /media/data/projects/2023/orangepi/images/Orangepi5_1.1.4_debian_bullseye_desktop_kde-plasma_linux5.10.110.img /media/cdrom cp /media/cdrom/dtb-5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588/rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb /tmp/ Now we have extracted the file. Then boot up `Armbian_23.5.0-trunk.140_Orangepi5_lunar_legacy_5.10.110_xfce_desktop.img` on the pi and and scp the blob there: scp /tmp/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb root@192.168.1.14:/boot/dbt/rockchip/ then edit `/boot/armbianEnv/txt` to have this line: ftdfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb reboot, you should see the emmc. On to install this system to it. Installed gparted, deleted everything from the emmc and formatted it to ext4. Then run `nand-sata-install` and chose the option `boot+system on emmc`, let it finish, quick `sync;poweroff`, then unplug the power cord, remove the sd card, plug the cord it back, it boots 😎

Yeah. So far the only image that`s been able to detect the emmc is the debian image from OrangePI (I dd'ed their image to the emmc and even though the pi could restart into that image, the boot process froze early on and I could not login/use the board). I'd rather use armbian but at this point I can't: I need to access the emmc storage for my projects. Is there anything I can do to further help debug this?

I've got the same issue on an orangepi 5b and am not able to get the emmc to be seen. here's what I've done: - I downloaded and flashed Armbian_23.5.0-trunk.140_Orangepi5_lunar_legacy_5.10.110_xfce_desktop.img.xz from the rolling releases page - could boot into armbian over the SD. Emmc can't be seen. - I edited the ftdfile line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt with this ftdfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dts - I ran sync to make sure the file was saved - restarted the opi (neither shutdown or reboot work so I unplug/replug the opi) - I get a black screen, the monitor goes on pause, no input, and that's it, the image isn't starting anymore. I also tried with this line as ftdfile, as suggested there: ftdfile=rockchip/rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dtb To the same effect. I also had the same issue with a custom built image. Can someone point to what I'm doing wrong?