DavidJS Posted May 24, 2022 Posted May 24, 2022 Hello, I am using my Renegade with the Armbian I compiled myself. Now there is only one partition on my system: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.03MiB 16.0MiB 16.0MiB Free Space 1 16.0MiB 5580MiB 5564MiB primary ext4 5580MiB 7620MiB 2040MiB Free Space I want to add a boot partition like Raspberry OS, so I can make some configration on the PC through boot partition. Raspberry OS's partition always like that: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 0.02MiB 4.00MiB 3.98MiB Free Space 1 4.00MiB 260MiB 256MiB primary fat32 lba 2 260MiB 14939MiB 14679MiB primary ext4 14939MiB 14940MiB 0.95MiB Free Space Is there any method? 0 Quote
Igor Posted May 24, 2022 Posted May 24, 2022 32 minutes ago, DavidJS said: Is there any method? https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/config/boards Add BOOTFS_TYPE="fat" to the end of the board config file. Perhaps it works if added as a parameter. But this is internal switch - if it won't work properly, its on you to debug. 0 Quote
DavidJS Posted May 28, 2022 Author Posted May 28, 2022 @Igor,thanks for your relpy! I tried to add the BOOTFS_TYPE="fat" to the end of the board config file. It really generated the boot partition! But after the bootloader boot, the kernel cannot boot successfully, the console shows like below: U-Boot 2021.07-armbian (May 28 2022 - 14:59:35 +0800) Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc DRAM: 1022 MiB PMIC: RK8050 (on=0x40, off=0x00) MMC: mmc@ff500000: 1 Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial@ff130000 Out: serial@ff130000 Err: serial@ff130000 Model: Firefly roc-rk3328-cc Net: eth1: ethernet@ff550000 Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1 is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found /extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /extlinux/extlinux.conf 349 bytes read in 4 ms (85 KiB/s) 1: Armbian Retrieving file: /boot/uInitrd Failed to load '/boot/uInitrd' Skipping Armbian for failure retrieving initrd SCRIPT FAILED: continuing... 64809 bytes read in 9 ms (6.9 MiB/s) 7[r[999;999H[6n8Scanning disk mmc@ff500000.blk... Found 3 disks No EFI system partition BootOrder not defined EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image MMC Device 0 not found no mmc device at slot 0 starting USB... Bus usb@ff5c0000: USB EHCI 1.00 Bus usb@ff5d0000: USB OHCI 1.0 Bus usb@ff580000: USB DWC2 scanning bus usb@ff5c0000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@ff5d0000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found scanning bus usb@ff580000 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found Device 0: unknown device Speed: 100, full duplex BOOTP broadcast 1 BOOTP broadcast 2 BOOTP broadcast 3 BOOTP broadcast 4 BOOTP broadcast 5 BOOTP broadcast 6 BOOTP broadcast 7 BOOTP broadcast 8 BOOTP broadcast 9 BOOTP broadcast 10 BOOTP broadcast 11 BOOTP broadcast 12 BOOTP broadcast 13 BOOTP broadcast 14 BOOTP broadcast 15 BOOTP broadcast 16 BOOTP broadcast 17 Is there any step I haven't made? 0 Quote
Igor Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 18 minutes ago, DavidJS said: Is there any step I haven't made? Yes. You didn't read my answer. I said that "if it won't work properly, its on you to debug". I suspected this will happen since we are not paying attention to making FAT boot support This exists in the system with one reason only - in case some hardware can't be boot from ext4 directly, we use this and adopt boot scripts to meet this scenario. And this is your job - to adopt boot scripts - what boot log tells you? 0 Quote
DavidJS Posted May 28, 2022 Author Posted May 28, 2022 15 minutes ago, Igor said: Yes. You didn't read my answer. I said that "if it won't work properly, its on you to debug". I suspected this will happen since we are not paying attention to making FAT boot support This exists in the system with one reason only - in case some hardware can't be boot from ext4 directly, we use this and adopt boot scripts to meet this scenario. And this is your job - to adopt boot scripts - what boot log tells you? Oh, so except the boot log I provided above, is there still other logs I can find? 0 Quote
Igor Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 6 minutes ago, DavidJS said: Oh, so except the boot log I provided above, is there still other logs I can find? No, that's all. 0 Quote
DavidJS Posted May 28, 2022 Author Posted May 28, 2022 @Igor, I found the log showed: Retrieving file: /boot/uInitrd Failed to load '/boot/uInitrd' And I made the system without boot partition and boot successfully, it can retrieve the "/boot/uInitrd" successfully. So on the "ok system", I continue to type: "ls -l /boot", and it shows: root@renegade:/boot# ls -l total 60676 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 May 16 16:12 armbian_first_run.txt.template -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38518 May 16 16:12 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232159 May 16 16:01 config-5.16.20-rockchip64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 16 16:11 dtb -> dtb-5.16.20-rockchip64 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 16 16:11 dtb-5.16.20-rockchip64 drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 May 16 16:10 extlinux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 16 16:11 Image -> vmlinuz-5.16.20-rockchip64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12589167 May 16 16:16 initrd.img-5.16.20-rockchip64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6331787 May 16 16:01 System.map-5.16.20-rockchip64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 16 16:16 uInitrd -> uInitrd-5.16.20-rockchip64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12589231 May 16 16:16 uInitrd-5.16.20-rockchip64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30327296 May 16 16:01 vmlinuz-5.16.20-rockchip64 There is a file of "uInitrd-5.16.20-rockchip64" on the /boot direction. And on the system I add boot partition, there is no "uInitrd-5.16.20-rockchip64"! Maybe this is the key? 0 Quote
c0rnelius Posted May 28, 2022 Posted May 28, 2022 What does your extlinux/extlinux.conf file look like? Without seeing the contents I can't be sure, but on its face it looks like it can't load the files, because it can't find them. For example; since you are now booting from a boot partition, it shouldn't be checking for `/boot/$file. Instead it should be loading the files from the `/` of the boot partition. 0 Quote
DavidJS Posted May 30, 2022 Author Posted May 30, 2022 On 5/28/2022 at 6:45 PM, Cornelius said: What does your extlinux/extlinux.conf file look like? Without seeing the contents I can't be sure, but on its face it looks like it can't load the files, because it can't find them. For example; since you are now booting from a boot partition, it shouldn't be checking for `/boot/$file. Instead it should be loading the files from the `/` of the boot partition. Thanks for your remind! It is the key, it still used "/boot/" on the extlinux/extlinux.conf file. After I changed it, it works! Thank you for you two, @Igor, @Cornelius 0 Quote
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