soerenderfor Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 @Mathias @GreyLinux - Some pics of my "dirty" setup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 @soerenderfor wow that is incredibly tight. Great effort getting all that to fit into the NAS case, utilising every inch. I have a meager 2x 2.5 inch SSD's so lots of wasted space . I might have to ask your opinion on the simpNaS solution you use , but that's a topic for another thread . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 @GreyLinux - The "flexi sata cables" was a MUST to fit the 5 drives. I have used SimpNAS with sucess, works for the most "out of the box" with many of the sata cards i used. Now i run Armbian buster and OMV again, the reason is i use OMV on my other machines. And also that i can boot from the sata card and no sd or emmc is needed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @GreyLinux - How is it going with your new sata card and the board? Thanks, 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @soerenderfor its going really really well , I've just installed simpnas on the rockpro64 and I'm seriously impressed, it's brilliant . The card has been working flawlessly doesn't skip a beat with heavy uploading and the rockpro64 barely uses any of it's processing power to run several docker containers and simpnas . I'm running kernel 5.8.17 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @GreyLinux - Same as me, really impressed. When you find the "right card", it took some time for me (7) different cards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 I think I was just lucky that a lot of you guys had tried other cards and I could learn from your hard work . Marvell card for the win ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @GreyLinux - Do you boot over micro? You can boot from the card if you flash spi on the board, i do run from SSD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @soerenderfor I think this will be my next step ! Currently I do indeed boot from the SD card . Would you have any info on how to best to boot from the ssd instead? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 7, 2020 Share Posted November 7, 2020 @GreyLinux - Yes, i can show how i done it, i will wirte tomorrow. Its late for me now. I be back tomorrow 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 @GreyLinux - Sorry for the delay, i did use 2020.01-ayufan-2014-gff2cdd38 uboot. I'm pretty sure just flashed it on sd card (not 100% sure) and flashed spi, the i could boot Armbian from my "5" port on sata pcie card. Maybe it is possible with armbian-config I'm not sure, because i haven't tryed uboot update from armbian-config. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 15, 2020 Share Posted November 15, 2020 On 11/13/2020 at 9:28 PM, soerenderfor said: @GreyLinux - Sorry for the delay, i did use 2020.01-ayufan-2014-gff2cdd38 uboot. I'm pretty sure just flashed it on sd card (not 100% sure) and flashed spi, the i could boot Armbian from my "5" port on sata pcie card. Maybe it is possible with armbian-config I'm not sure, because i haven't tryed uboot update from armbian-config. Nice 👍 thanks @soerenderfor this is my next objective . I will have a look into whether I can do it with armbian-config . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waryle Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 On 11/13/2020 at 10:28 PM, soerenderfor said: On 11/13/2020 at 10:28 PM, soerenderfor said: @GreyLinux - Sorry for the delay, i did use 2020.01-ayufan-2014-gff2cdd38 uboot. I'm pretty sure just flashed it on sd card (not 100% sure) and flashed spi, the i could boot Armbian from my "5" port on sata pcie card. Maybe it is possible with armbian-config I'm not sure, because i haven't tryed uboot update from armbian-config. Hi @soerenderfor, can you explain a bit further the process? I downloaded the u-boot-flash-spi-rockpro64 from there : https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-mainline-u-boot/releases/tag/2020.01-ayufan-2014-gff2cdd38 I downloaded the last release of armbian for RockPro64. Then : -Flash u-boot - Install armbian then use armbian-config to move the system to my Sata SSD (Boot from SPI - System on SATA) - Still in armbian-config, I accepted/declined the option to update the bootloader in the SPI flash I did those three in every order, flashing first then installing, installing then flashing, accepting the update to the bootloader in armbian-config, then declining it... Leaving the bootloader on the SD card does works ("Boot from SD - System on SATA" in Armbian-config), but I can get my RockPro64 to boot directly from the SATA SSD. What am I doing wrong / What did you do exactly to make it work? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waryle Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 @soerenderfor Sorry for double commenting, I misused the @ function in my first message 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 @Waryle - Myself did use, uboot from.. Auyfan, i'm pretty sure, it was an img to burn on the sdcard to the spi. It was pretty easy. I will look for it tonight. Thanks. *Im not 100% sure if the uboot, was able to boot from any port, what card do you use? *This one on your sdcard - u-boot-flash-spi-rockpro64.img.xz, boot up. If remember right it is that one, and when your box start blinking, it should be done. I did wait a minut, just to make sure it was done right. NOTE **2020.01-ayufan-2014-gff2cdd38 released ayufan: rockchip: allow to boot scsi4, as JMS585 can have 5 drives 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waryle Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 Sorry, the forum limits me to 1 comment every once in a while, I couldn't answer earlier. @soerenderfor I did use a Samsung SD Card ( https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Class-Micro-Adapter-MB-MC32GA/dp/B0749KG1JK/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=samsung%2Bsd%2B32gb&qid=1607026358&sr=8-3&th=1 ). I did flash the u-boot-flash-spi-rockpro64.img.xz using those instructions : https://github.com/sigmaris/u-boot/wiki/Flashing-U-Boot-to-SPI I even waited an extra 5 minutes afterwards before rebooting just to be sure. I also tried Sigmaris' 2020.10 uboot version, and asked for help there : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8685&pid=84734#pid84734 Just to be sure : you are currently booting from SPI directly to a SATA drive, not from EMMC, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRS-80 Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 6 minutes ago, Waryle said: the forum limits me to 1 comment every once in a while, I couldn't answer earlier. That is part of some (unfortunately necessary) spam prevention measure. I gave you a like, so that restriction should lift within 24 hours. Cheers! And welcome to the forums. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted December 3, 2020 Share Posted December 3, 2020 (edited) @Waryle I boot up from SSD drive, i use a 5 port sata card. And boot from the upper port "5" Im not sure if it can boot from other ports, but i did disconnet all other drives, than the "boot" drive, on first boot-up Edited December 3, 2020 by soerenderfor Added boot procedure 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waryle Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/3/2020 at 9:28 PM, TRS-80 said: That is part of some (unfortunately necessary) spam prevention measure. I gave you a like, so that restriction should lift within 24 hours. Cheers! And welcome to the forums. That was very kind of you, thank you! On 12/3/2020 at 10:01 PM, soerenderfor said: @Waryle I boot up from SSD drive, i use a 5 port sata card. And boot from the upper port "5" Im not sure if it can boot from other ports, but i did disconnet all other drives, than the "boot" drive, on first boot-up I have finally found the problem after hours of looking up for documentation and retries. I had the idea to take a PC monitor and plug the RockPro64 on it to see what kind of error it could throw, and work from there : Uboot seem to boot only on the first SATA drive of the list : I had a SATA card with 4 ports, I plugged my SDD in the port 1 and my two other drives in the 3 and 4. Uboot does not like BTRFS. Once I have plugged the SSD on the port 1, I had a initramfs error, so I went again in armbian-config, used the "Boot from SPI - System on SATA" option, and this time I chosed Ext4 instead of BTRFS. It's working now. I could have found a way to put only the /boot on an Ext4 partition and the system on BTRFS, but I have lost too much time and I'm gettting lazy, so I'll just leave it that way, Ext4 is perfectly fine anyway. Thanks for you help ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soerenderfor Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 @Waryle Thanks for update, and the fine description. Yeah, BTRFS is a problem i did also hit the "wall" and did also go through with Ext4, i havent got any downtime yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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