Joaho Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Hi Piter, Sorry for the interuption, I am the only one here who considers the SBC priority 1 ;-) It works! Just running upgrade. Thank you, without you I could not have done it! Joaho 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted December 15, 2020 Author Share Posted December 15, 2020 14 minutes ago, Joaho said: Thank you, without you I could not have done it! No problem Care to share what drive do you boot with SPI? 17 hours ago, BiNiCKNiCH said: I can confirm that it also runs with an HP SSD EX900 M.2 NVMe 120GB. Model: 2YY42AA#ABB Thanks for sharing the drive info I will add it to a known working list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joaho Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 vor 23 Stunden schrieb piter75: Care to share what drive do you boot with SPI? It is a Kingspec M.2 NVME 512GB 2242. Can´t tell more, the sticker is gone... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joaho Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 The second Rock Pi 4 is running too, that NVME is a Samsung MZ VLB 512B. What I learned: I did everything according to Piters howto and got a bad boot (screen on and off, blue led blinking, stays the same). Or colored stripes with distorted text with screen on and then off. First I then started from beginning, newly flashed the SDchip, the whole procedure, only to get a bad boot again. Then, by luck, I did a second boot after the first and this worked! Several times. Weird, but useful! Edit: When there was one good boot the bad booting does not come back! Edit2: It DOES come back sometimes. But then always the second boot is successful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallo1 Posted December 20, 2020 Share Posted December 20, 2020 My testing result: (U-Boot 2020.07-armbian (Dec 12 2020 - 01:58:01 +0100)) SD card boot: Working (absolutely) NVMe boot: Working (on my ssd w/ sm2263xt controller) USB boot: Working (bad compability, the upper usb3.0 port seems won't work) PXE boot: Untested (but networking seems okay) EMMC boot: Untested SPI Flash read/write: Working HDMI: Working (tested 1920x1080) USB keyboard: Not working(can be detected but not working) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonDittrich Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Am 29.11.2020 um 20:53 schrieb piter75: ... Which NVMe drives are known to be working? Corsair MP510 240GB/480GB Gigabyte SSD M.2 2280 PCIe x2 Model:GP-GSM2NE8128GNTD Intel SSD 660p Model:SSDPEKNW512GB Kingston A1000 SSD 240GB (PHISON PS5008-E8-10) Kingston A2000 M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe PNY 250GB XLR8 CS3030 M.2 NVMe SSD PCIe Gen3 x4 Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD 250GB M.2 2280, PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe, 3500/2300 MB/s Samsung SM981 256GB ... You can add the Sabrent 256 GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 to the List, it works great according to your instructions. I have translated parts of your instructions on my blog into German and used them with a reference to this post. I hope this is OK with you. Greets Ronny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 1 hour ago, RonDittrich said: You can add the Sabrent 256 GB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 to the List, it works great according to your instructions. Done. Thanks for feedback! 1 hour ago, RonDittrich said: I have translated parts of your instructions on my blog into German and used them with a reference to this post. I hope this is OK with you. No problem. I am glad it may help someone. It reminded me that I should update the instructions anyway - current instructions still work but some steps are unnecessary. With Armbian 20.11.4+ pins shorting is not needed anymore for folks that already have Radxa's u-boot in their SPI flash. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonDittrich Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 vor 2 Minuten schrieb piter75: With Armbian 20.11.4+ pins shorting is not needed anymore for folks that already have Radxa's u-boot in their SPI flash. Are you sure? I use the Armbian_20.11.6_Rockpi-4c_focal_current_5.9.14_desktop and without the short circuit it would not work for me. It was a brand new RockPi4c from the last production that i get for testing direct from Raxda. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 2 minutes ago, RonDittrich said: I use the Armbian_20.11.6_Rockpi-4c_focal_current_5.9.14_desktop and without the short circuit it would not work for me. Hmmm... now that you say it... I need to retest it with some fresh SPI image from Radxa. Maybe there still is some interoperability issue between our u-boot images. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallo1 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) Intel Optane memory M10 16GB is NOT working. Here is some log. U-Boot TPL 2020.07-armbian (Dec 23 2020 - 15:30:05) Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB Channel 1: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS1 Row=15 CS=2 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB 256B stride 256B stride lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1 lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0 Trying to boot from BOOTROM Returning to boot ROM... U-Boot SPL 2020.07-armbian (Dec 23 2020 - 15:30:05 +0100) Trying to boot from SPI NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):42583b6 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 07:55:13, Oct 15 2019 NOTICE: BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1 INFO: GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3 INFO: Using opteed sec cpu_context! INFO: boot cpu mask: 0 INFO: If lpddr4 need support multi frequency, INFO: please update loader! INFO: Current ctl index[0] freq=400MHz INFO: Current ctl index[1] freq=800MHz INFO: plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1190): pd status 3e INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will return SMC_UNK ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 U-Boot 2020.07-armbian (Dec 23 2020 - 15:30:05 +0100) SoC: Rockchip rk3399 Reset cause: RST Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B DRAM: 3.9 GiB PMIC: RK808 MMC: mmc@fe310000: 2, mmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0 Loading Environment from SPI Flash... SF: Detected XT25F32B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB OK In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! Card did not respond to voltage select! "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000210 elr: 000000000022d918 lr : 000000000022d8b4 (reloc) elr: 00000000f3f5a918 lr : 00000000f3f5a8b4 x0 : 00000000f8000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x2 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000100000 x4 : 00000000f1f37e00 x5 : 0000000000100000 x6 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 00000000f3fcd888 x8 : 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000008 x10: 00000000ffffffe8 x11: 0000000000000010 x12: 000000000000149c x13: 00000000f1f149fc x14: 00000000f1f15b20 x15: 0000000000000020 x16: 00000000f3f5a878 x17: 0000000000060001 x18: 00000000f1f26dc0 x19: 00000000f1f14970 x20: 0000000000000001 x21: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000010000 x23: 00000000f3fd37f8 x24: 0000000000010000 x25: 00000000f3fba3f2 x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000 x28: 00000000f1f37d10 x29: 00000000f1f148d0 Code: 540000c1 350000a5 93407c05 f9400080 (b86068a0) Resetting CPU ... The error code is exactly same as the legacy(radxa) u-boot. https://forum.radxa.com/t/bootloader/2309 Edited January 18, 2021 by hallo1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thc013 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 yeah did you check what is on your optane or emmc or sd ? "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000210 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallo1 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 1/19/2021 at 5:16 AM, thc013 said: yeah did you check what is on your optane or emmc or sd ? "Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000210 sd and emmc are not present. The radxa's image have been flashed to the optane memory. But actrually the content inside the optane memory don't have much to do with this error. EVEN A BLANK OPTANE MEMORY CAUSES THIS ERROR. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) And another one. WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD 1TB (WDS100T2B0C) Working like a charm... Edited January 25, 2021 by BiNiCKNiCH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 The WDS100T2B0C doesn't seem to work so well after all. Sometimes the reboot hangs and the system only restarts after a power reset. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 11 minutes ago, BiNiCKNiCH said: The WDS100T2B0C doesn't seem to work so well after all. Sometimes the reboot hangs and the system only restarts after a power reset. I wonder if it hangs in u-boot or in kernel later on. Did you have a chance to catch such hanging boot with a serial console? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) vor einer Stunde schrieb piter75: I wonder if it hangs in u-boot or in kernel later on. Did you have a chance to catch such hanging boot with a serial console? Yes I did, and now I think it has nothing to do with the SSD. I installed the latest Armbian image from today. Apparently my Rockpi is trying to load files from my Fritzbox via TFTP. I canceled the serial console and restarted via reset, and now the rockpi starts again without problems. Armbian 20.11.6 Focal ttyS2 rockpi-4a login: [ 36.932811] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! [ 37.227029] reboot: Restarting system U-Boot TPL 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57) Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB Channel 1: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB 256B stride lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1 lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0 Trying to boot from BOOTROM Returning to boot ROM... U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57 +0100) Trying to boot from SPI NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):42583b6 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 07:55:13, Oct 15 2019 NOTICE: BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1 INFO: GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3 INFO: Using opteed sec cpu_context! INFO: boot cpu mask: 0 INFO: If lpddr4 need support multi frequency, INFO: please update loader! INFO: Current ctl index[0] freq=400MHz INFO: Current ctl index[1] freq=800MHz INFO: plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1190): pd status 3e INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will return SMC_UNK ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 U-Boot 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57 +0100) SoC: Rockchip rk3399 Reset cause: RST Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B DRAM: 3.9 GiB PMIC: RK808 MMC: mmc@fe310000: 2, mmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0 Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected XT25F32B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! Card did not respond to voltage select! PCIe link training gen1 timeout! Device 0: unknown device starting USB... Bus usb@fe380000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@fe3c0000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus dwc3: usb maximum-speed not found Register 2000140 NbrPorts 2 Starting the controller USB XHCI 1.10 scanning bus usb@fe380000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@fe3c0000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus dwc3 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Device 0: unknown device failed to find ep-gpios property ethernet@fe300000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete........ done Speed: 1000, full duplex BOOTP broadcast 1 DHCP client bound to address 192.168.1.11 (4 ms) *** Warning: no boot file name; using 'C0A8010B.img' Using ethernet@fe300000 device TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.11 Filename 'C0A8010B.img'. Load address: 0x800800 Loading: *T T T T T T T T T T Retry count exceeded; starting again missing environment variable: pxeuuid missing environment variable: bootfile Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/01-5e-35-1a-eb-5a-8d Speed: 1000, full duplex Using ethernet@fe300000 device TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.11 Filename 'pxelinux.cfg/01-5e-35-1a-eb-5a-8d'. Load address: 0x600000 Loading: *T T T T T T T T T T Retry count exceeded; starting again missing environment variable: bootfile Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A8010B Speed: 1000, full duplex Using ethernet@fe300000 device TFTP from server 192.168.1.1; our IP address is 192.168.1.11 Filename 'pxelinux.cfg/C0A8010B'. Load address: 0x600000 Loading: *T T T T T T T Another reboot hangs on the kernel loading: Last login: Mon Jan 25 23:33:11168.1.105 on pts/0 rock@rockpi-4a:~$ reboot rock@rockpi-4a:~$ [ 148.654202] watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! [ 148.932579] reboot: Restarting system U-Boot TPL 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57) Channel 0: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB Channel 1: LPDDR4, 50MHz BW=32 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=16/15 CS=1 Die BW=16 Size=2048MB 256B stride lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 400000000 mhz 0, 1 lpddr4_set_rate: change freq to 800000000 mhz 1, 0 Trying to boot from BOOTROM Returning to boot ROM... U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57 +0100) Trying to boot from SPI NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(debug):42583b6 NOTICE: BL31: Built : 07:55:13, Oct 15 2019 NOTICE: BL31: Rockchip release version: v1.1 INFO: GICv3 with legacy support detected. ARM GICV3 driver initialized in EL3 INFO: Using opteed sec cpu_context! INFO: boot cpu mask: 0 INFO: If lpddr4 need support multi frequency, INFO: please update loader! INFO: Current ctl index[0] freq=400MHz INFO: Current ctl index[1] freq=800MHz INFO: plat_rockchip_pmu_init(1190): pd status 3e INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services WARNING: No OPTEE provided by BL2 boot loader, Booting device without OPTEE initialization. SMC`s destined for OPTEE will return SMC_UNK ERROR: Error initializing runtime service opteed_fast INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x200000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 U-Boot 2020.10-armbian (Jan 05 2021 - 03:54:57 +0100) SoC: Rockchip rk3399 Reset cause: RST Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B DRAM: 3.9 GiB PMIC: RK808 MMC: mmc@fe310000: 2, mmc@fe320000: 1, sdhci@fe330000: 0 Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected XT25F32B with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Model: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B Net: eth0: ethernet@fe300000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 Card did not respond to voltage select! Card did not respond to voltage select! Device 0: Vendor: 0x15b7 Rev: 211070WD Prod: 20427P462511 Type: Hard Disk Capacity: 953869.7 MB = 931.5 GB (1953525168 x 512) ... is now current device Scanning nvme 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3185 bytes read in 2 ms (1.5 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 00500000 Boot script loaded from nvme 0 261 bytes read in 2 ms (127 KiB/s) 15790152 bytes read in 37 ms (407 MiB/s) 27507200 bytes read in 55 ms (477 MiB/s) 74439 bytes read in 3 ms (23.7 MiB/s) 267 bytes read in 2 ms (129.9 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay rockchip-pcie-gen2.dtbo 1314 bytes read in 2 ms (641.6 KiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT overlay rockchip-spi-jedec-nor.dtbo 2698 bytes read in 2 ms (1.3 MiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (rockchip-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 09000000 Moving Image from 0x2080000 to 0x2200000, end=3cd0000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 06000000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 15790088 Bytes = 15.1 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01f00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1f00000 Loading Ramdisk to f100d000, end f1f1c008 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 00000000f0f92000, end 00000000f100cfff ... OK Starting kernel ... Edited January 25, 2021 by BiNiCKNiCH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squishykid Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) Fantastic instructions and thanks for all the work! I was able to follow the instructions and almost had it working. There were some small changes required however. I had to modify my /boot/boot.cmd on the nvme drive: --- /boot/boot.cmd +++ /boot/boot.cmd @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ setenv load_addr "0x9000000" setenv overlay_error "false" # default values -setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1" +setenv rootdev "/dev/nvme0n1p1" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv bootlogo "false" @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if test "${bootlogo}" = "true"; then setenv consoleargs "bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash.armbian ${consoleargs}"; fi # get PARTUUID of first partition on SD/eMMC the boot script was loaded from -if test "${devtype}" = "mmc"; then part uuid mmc ${devnum}:1 partuuid; fi +if test "${devtype}" = "nvme"; then part uuid nvme ${devnum}:1 partuuid; fi setenv bootargs "root=${rootdev} rootwait rootfstype=${rootfstype} ${consoleargs} consoleblank=0 loglevel=${verbosity} ubootpart=${partuuid} usb-storage.quirks=${usbstoragequirks} ${extraargs} ${extraboardargs}" Then after modifying I ran `mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /u/boot/boot.cmd /u/boot/boot.scr` (I had mounted the nvme partition under `/u` after the `nand-sata-instal` step completed) Without this fix the board would not seem to boot. U-boot would complete and then load the kernel. However I was able to see via serial that the kernel was waiting for the root device to appear (looping `Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.` over and over). Then it would drop to an initramfs shell and alert that it was unable to find the root filesystem device and had given up. Hardware: RockPi 4A 1.4 Kingston A2000 1TB ROCK PI 4x M.2 Extension board v1.6 Armbian Image: 5036f952501644989d744d789d36c4f797501d48e24605d7a8f043adfc792ad0 *Armbian_21.02.1_Rockpi-4a_buster_current_5.10.12.img.xz Full /boot/armbianEnv.txt: verbosity=1 console=both bootlogo=false overlay_prefix=rockchip fdtfile=rockchip/rk3399-rock-pi-4a.dtb rootdev=UUID=3e02d076-8e50-47fe-9a55-df7e1edef6e0 rootfstype=ext4 usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u Full /boot/boot.cmd: # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # Please edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt to set supported parameters # setenv load_addr "0x9000000" setenv overlay_error "false" # default values #setenv rootdev "/dev/mmcblk0p1" setenv rootdev "/dev/nvme0n1p1" setenv verbosity "1" setenv console "both" setenv bootlogo "false" setenv rootfstype "ext4" setenv docker_optimizations "on" setenv earlycon "off" echo "Boot script loaded from ${devtype} ${devnum}" if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum} ${prefix}armbianEnv.txt; then load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${load_addr} ${prefix}armbianEnv.txt env import -t ${load_addr} ${filesize} fi if test "${logo}" = "disabled"; then setenv logo "logo.nologo"; fi if test "${console}" = "display" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=tty1"; fi if test "${console}" = "serial" || test "${console}" = "both"; then setenv consoleargs "console=ttyS2,1500000 ${consoleargs}"; fi if test "${earlycon}" = "on"; then setenv consoleargs "earlycon ${consoleargs}"; fi if test "${bootlogo}" = "true"; then setenv consoleargs "bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash.armbian ${consoleargs}"; fi # get PARTUUID of first partition on SD/eMMC the boot script was loaded from #if test "${devtype}" = "mmc"; then part uuid mmc ${devnum}:1 partuuid; fi if test "${devtype}" = "nvme"; then part uuid nvme ${devnum}:1 partuuid; fi setenv bootargs "root=${rootdev} rootwait rootfstype=${rootfstype} ${consoleargs} consoleblank=0 loglevel=${verbosity} ubootpart=${partuuid} usb-storage.quirks=${usbstoragequirks} ${extraargs} ${extraboardargs}" if test "${docker_optimizations}" = "on"; then setenv bootargs "${bootargs} cgroup_enable=cpuset cgroup_memory=1 cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1"; fi load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${prefix}uInitrd load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${kernel_addr_r} ${prefix}Image load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${fdt_addr_r} ${prefix}dtb/${fdtfile} fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r} fdt resize 65536 for overlay_file in ${overlays}; do if load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${load_addr} ${prefix}dtb/rockchip/overlay/${overlay_prefix}-${overlay_file}.dtbo; then echo "Applying kernel provided DT overlay ${overlay_prefix}-${overlay_file}.dtbo" fdt apply ${load_addr} || setenv overlay_error "true" fi done for overlay_file in ${user_overlays}; do if load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${load_addr} ${prefix}overlay-user/${overlay_file}.dtbo; then echo "Applying user provided DT overlay ${overlay_file}.dtbo" fdt apply ${load_addr} || setenv overlay_error "true" fi done if test "${overlay_error}" = "true"; then echo "Error applying DT overlays, restoring original DT" load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${fdt_addr_r} ${prefix}dtb/${fdtfile} else if load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${load_addr} ${prefix}dtb/rockchip/overlay/${overlay_prefix}-fixup.scr; then echo "Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (${overlay_prefix}-fixup.scr)" source ${load_addr} fi if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum} ${prefix}fixup.scr; then load ${devtype} ${devnum} ${load_addr} ${prefix}fixup.scr echo "Applying user provided fixup script (fixup.scr)" source ${load_addr} fi fi booti ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_addr_r} ${fdt_addr_r} # Recompile with: # mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr Edited February 7, 2021 by squishykid more information about what happened before my fix. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 4 hours ago, squishykid said: Without this fix the board would not seem to boot. U-boot would complete and then load the kernel. Thanks for feedback. "rootdev" from /boot/boot.cmd should be overridden by the "UUID=" stanza in your /boot/armbianEnv.txt It is possible that something went wrong with the nand-sata-install and it did not update the value correctly. Can you post the link to a report generated with `sudo armbianmonitor -u`? Maybe we can identify the issue. I tested the procedure quite a few times and never needed to tinker with those files manually but one thing that comes to my mind is that I always used the first partition of the drive. I will need to test some other scenarios too ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDzikuPL Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Nice tutorial. I have got exactly same problem as squishykid, I followed his solution and it worked for me. My hardware is: RockPi 4C v1.2 ROCK PI 4X M.2 Extension board v1.6 ADATA SX8200 PRO 512GB (version based on SM2262ENG controller) I used this build: Armbian_21.02.1_Rockpi-4c_focal_current_5.10.12.img As I always was able to pass u-boot I think that my NVMe drive is compatible with RockPi. Here is a picture of full error without squishykid's fix: Spoiler Here is a report generated by "armbianmonitor -u" from my installation: http://ix.io/2RsO After applying squishykid's fix I was able to normally run the system (or maybe not - I only performed sysbench for CPU and NVMe on it). But after running "apt get update && apt get upgrade && reboot" the system again won't boot up - I'm again getting the same error as in the picture above. Here is a report just after doing "apt get update && apt get upgrade": http://ix.io/2Rtz I don't know what has been broken by upgrade but the boot.cmd and armbianEnv.txt are left unchanged, also I created new boot.scr (by using mkimage) but still after upgrade I'm unable to boot again from my NVMe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 On 3/3/2021 at 1:41 AM, MrDzikuPL said: After applying squishykid's fix I was able to normally run the system (or maybe not - I only performed sysbench for CPU and NVMe on it). I am still thinking that this "fix" is actually only a workaround covering for some other issue. It sets "rootdev" to "/dev/nvme0n1p1" device but it should be overridden anyway with variables loaded from /boot/armbianEnv.txt. It also sets "ubootpart" in the kernel command line but this is only used by Armbian scripts for writing u-boot later on. IMHO it has nothing to do with the boot process. With those two facts combined - either /boot/armbianEnv.txt is not loaded correctly and does not use "rootenv=UUID=xxx" (I see in your armbianmonitor log that the variable is properly configured) or the fix is simply a placebo effect and it "works" because something else has also changed in the system. If you look at the last full dmesg of http://ix.io/2Rtz you see that the kernel command line uses "root=UUID=94xxx" which actually confirms that the fix is actually ineffective. If you look at the lsblk part of the log after this dmesg it shows that the system actually booted with nvme. What I suspect is that your drive is not always recognised by kernel. That would explain the missing UUID=5xxxx message in your screenshot. If you look at the screenshot there are actually no nvme* devices present in "ls /dev" output - that would corroborate my suspicion. What I would try would be a bit of testing: cold booting and rebooting at least a few times with SD card present and verify if the nvme device is actually present after booting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmailman Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Very nice work guys. I'm so glad I found this. I've had my Rock Pi 4B for over a year and it's been gathering dust because every time I try to get it stable I get frustrated. This time will be different. I hope. Pray even. I'm following the instructions and on the reboot in step 4 I'm getting a kernel panic. How do I know the panic is because of an incompatible NVME or other reason? Rock Pi 4A v1.4 XPG NVME (128GB) Samsung uSD (128GB) Any pointers? Or am I stuck with the Radxa Ubuntu image with broken USB3? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmailman Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Never-mind! It seems to be a problem with the Focal (4.4.y) image. I downloaded the Focal (5.10.y) image and it's worked as described. Which also means that the XPG SX6000 Lite 128GB PCIe 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 NVMe (ASX6000LNP-128GT-C) works well with this setup. Its a cheap and cheerful NVME purchased from Amazon. Now I just need to get nfs server working to share data between my Macs and other servers (ubuntu and Raspbian). I've found a few hundred tutorials and they are all just a little different and so far none have worked. :-/ Thanks for the great work on this! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 47 minutes ago, madmailman said: Which also means that the XPG SX6000 Lite 128GB PCIe 3D NAND PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 NVMe (ASX6000LNP-128GT-C) works well with this setup. Thanks for sharing drive details! I will add it to the opening post. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacigas Posted March 21, 2021 Share Posted March 21, 2021 Hi thanks for writing up this howto, unfortunately I can't get it to work. I have a RockPi 4c, Crucial P1 M.2 1TB NVME. I also tried squishykid's workaround. It seems that my nvme is not recognized. After the "Starting kernel ... " message the boot process stops in a busybox shell. The error message says that UUID=xxxx does not exist. Too bad. So, there's an NVME you can add to your Doesn't Work list. Cheers Laci 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pumuckl Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 hello , look's like the Download of Rockpi 4 A / B / C Armbian Focal is offline. https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/dl/rockpi-4b/Focal_legacy Not Found The requested URL /armbian/dl/rockpi-4b/Focal_legacy was not found on this server. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 1 hour ago, pumuckl said: look's like the Download of Rockpi 4 A / B / C Armbian Focal is offline. Not that it is relevant to SPI/NVMe booting ;-) but it is no longer built for that combination automatically. You can build it yourself or download focal current and switch kernel to legacy with "armbian-config". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanefu Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 3 hours ago, pumuckl said: ook's like the Download of Rockpi 4 A / B / C Armbian Focal is offline. I think we just have a bad mapping in our download tool. Should be able to find manually here https://mirrors.netix.net/armbian/dl/rockpi-4b/archive/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 12 hours ago, lanefu said: I think we just have a bad mapping in our download tool. IMHO it's more than that ;-) There will be older releases in the archive but no new ones. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanefu Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, piter75 said: IMHO it's more than that ;-) There will be older releases in the archive but no new ones. That would only impact nightlies not the most recent release 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piter75 Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 2 hours ago, lanefu said: That would only impact nightlies not the most recent release I am not sure of that. My understanding is that we are still building release images from master branch and the removal of this line from targets.conf: -rockpi-4b legacy focal cli stable yes means that focal legacy image for rockpi-4b will not be built. Lack of focal legacy image among 20.02.3 release images (built after the referred commit was merged) seems to corroborate that theory ;-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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