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thank you @umiddelb, That looks definitely similar, but not the same; it might have the same origin though (the firmware). It seems also the emmc card itself play a role here: as I mentioned I also have a 16GB emmc with armbian that works flawlessly every time on the same N2 with the same microcode (==the old one from 2019) The difference between the 2 emmc cards is this: the working one is orange, the failing one is red: https://wiki.odroid.com/accessory/emmc/reference_chart I am not even sure why this makes a difference, but apparently it does. I guess I will get curious enough a couple of days and try if with the updated microcode on the N2, the red one will behave, and can hold it's armbian. But that day is not today 🙂

As a small update: I did an update of petitboot (apparently I never did that since I owned the N2), and installed Debian bookworm over the petitboot net installer. This worked and for some reason seems to be rock solid; no issues with loosing or corrupting boot files whatsoever. I have no clue what is diffent between the Armbian image and the netboot one to make such a big difference in behaviour. (well, I see some differences, but they seem to be minor and not obviously related to the issue at hand) I' ll keep an eye on this, and see if I can find out more of the reasons behind the differences.

that looks really interesting. I'll dive into it. thanks a lot @usual user!

Hi @usual user, when you say "flaky firmware" do you mean the spi boot/petitboot on teh Odroid N2? or do you mean flaky on the emmc module? The module I have is indeed of an older variety, so maybe that could have something to do with it? How can I find more info on your firmware build please? thanks

Hello all, I am using an Odroid N2 with a 16Gb emmc and Armbian Bookworm. However as this got a bit small, I installed Armbian Bookworm to a new 64Gb emmc (Armbian is installed on an SD and can then be copied/installed to emmc). This seemed to work fine, and I had a running system. However, on the 3rd or 4th reboot, I got the error that the file "boot.scr" wasn't readable. With that, the emmc was not bootable anymore. I reinstalled multiple times, and each time, the emmc would work for a 2-5 boots, but no more. Each time, i got the error as above, or the error as below (partition could not be found) I never had this issue with the 16Gb emmc? Does anyone know this behaviour, or better: does anyone know what is causing this and how to solve it? thanks,