Armbian does not boot, can't find partition mmc 1:1?

[MisterC707]

Hello!

 

I'm trying to get Armbian jammy latest to boot on my new RockPro64.

 

I've tried both the CLI and XFCE images, flashed with Balena to a good SanDisk uSD card.

 

Both boot into U-Boot but then fail to find a partition on mmc 1.

 

Checking the SD card there's only 1 Linux partition and no FAT one.

 

I tested with a Debian image on the same SD card (DOS + Linux Partition) and it booted into the installer no problem.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

 

(Also asked on Pine 64 Forums, I will update/close this if they resolve it or vice/versa.)

 

 

[MisterC707]

Just to add some info, I tried a community lunar build (CLI) and had the same issue.

 

I was able to break out of the network boot loop and poke around in u-boot and something I noticed was when I did "mmc part" it returned "unknown partition table type 0" and then listed no partitions.

 

I"m using Etcher on a Macbook (I've also tried dd to the rdisk device) so I would assume the partition table and type are built into the IMG file, right?  

 

Google doesn't seem to know much about that error

 

 

[Igor]

We are running semi automated tests on real hardware (probably the only Linux distribution that do that) and it shows no problems with latest builds, similar to community:

 

https://github.com/armbian/build/actions/workflows/smoke-tests.yml

 

10 hours ago, MisterC707 said:

to a good SanDisk uSD card.

Try bad  / another SD card.

Armbian works.

[MisterC707]

I have no doubt Armbian works as I have used it successfully on several other SBCs, even other RK3399 based ones, before, so this particular quirk was confusing to me

 

I'll try a different SD card, since I suppose there could be a reason why the Armbian image isn't writing properly (even though it passes Etcher validation)  but every other distro I've tried boots up just fine.

 

I'll report back.

 

[MisterC707]

Well, as my grandpappy used to say, "Well dip me in shit and call me stinky"

 

Different SD card worked.

 

So weird that apparently whatever flaw exists on the other one doesn't stop it from booting armbian on different hardware.

 

Oh well, I'll take the win.

 

Thanks for the response.