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Thank you Nick, that worked! Not sure what the root cause is but will try to compare and see if I can find it. thanks again

Error msg: U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P6135-Ha9af-V6d37-Bda0a-R448a (Sep 19 2024 - 19:48:11 -0400) DRAM base address is defined as 0x40000000 DRAM has 15 b/raw, 10 b/col, 4 B/width, 1 #rank and 8 #bank DRAM top address must be less than 0x40000000 DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 mmc_load_image_raw_sector: mmc block read error SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### with a newer rev U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P4a40-H8869-Vad24-Bb703-R448a (Jul 11 2025 - 03:34:00 +0000) DRAM base address is defined as 0x40000000 DRAM has 15 b/raw, 10 b/col, 4 B/width, 1 #rank and 8 #bank DRAM top address must be less than 0x40000000 DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 MMC Device 1 not found spl: could not find mmc device 1. error: -19 SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ### it boots fine with miniarch from mmc. The Armbian SD loads fine to emmc on other units and they boot ok from mmc!

I have several of the x96Q V1.3 with H313 using Armbian booting from emmc with no issue. I miss-placed my Armbian SD and burned another one using a cheap SD which was a huge mistake! This caused and SPL -19 error code (can't find mmc) when booting from emmc. this error is printed to the UART (nothing on the HDMI, light stays red). These bad boxes are able to boot from the SD with no issues. I spend many hours trying to figure out the root cause with no success. The interesting thing is that this error persists on these damaged boxes even after reloading them with a Armbian using a good SD and Armbian-install. This good new SD was used on other good boxes and it works fine; they can boot from emmc. Only the boxes that were flashed with the bad SD have this problem. Now this gets even more interesting, I loaded miniarch on one of the bad boxes using dd and with some minor changes (which I can't remember what I did now) but got a bad boxe to boot up from emmc (only tried it on 1 box and it worked). I tried amrbian-install after miniarch booting from emmc and got the same error -19. I tried cloning a good box onto a bad one using dd over ssh and no luck either. I reloaded Android and that works and they boot up Android from emmc with no issues!!! I then installed Armbian after flashing Android but got the same issue. The failure is happening early in the SPL. Idon't think the Brom was touched since Android and miniarch work, I reloaded the bootloader with SPL and no luck either. At this point I can fix this with a hammer but it wold be nice to find the root cause if anyone has an idea or suggestions. Thanks and sorry for the long message. I am not in front of the unit otherwise I would include a screen shot of the error message.