[Solved] Orange PI PC + Boot from eMMC

[ducs4rs]

I configured Armbian on a mSD card and decided to try and move it to the eMMC. I used the nand-sata-install utility, All files from the mSD card are copied, and the last step fails. I get 

 

Error: no u-boot package found, exiting

 

Any pointers? 

Edited May 3, 2023 by ducs4rs

[Werner]

There should be some logs in /var/log/nand-sata-install.log. If so please share.

[ducs4rs]

I am using this device for PiKVM. It appears during the PiKVM install it somehow breaks u-boot transfer when you move the image from mSDC to eMMC.  I was on one of the PiKVM discord channels, #unofficial_ports and @jacobb suggested I try to dd u-boot from the mSDC to the eMMC. I did that and it worked.  FYI the DD command I used:

 

dd if=/dev//mmcblk0 of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=1024 skip=8 seek=8 count=4087

 

mmcblk0 is the mSDC and mmcblk2 is the eMMC.

 

Knowing this does work without the PiKVM customizations I am not going to troubleshoot this now. I may work on it in the future.

 

I'll mark this as solved.  Thanks for responding.

 

BTW here is the nand-sata-install.log for the last failed attempt. Nothing interesting to me.

 

Tue May  2 04:02:46 PM EDT 2023: Start armbian-install.


Old UUID:  UUID=20a438e5-56ab-4920-86aa-a4212c646ce2
SD UUID:   b81ecd25-f6d2-49f1-b92b-9a59e458ca3f
SATA UUID: UUID=f406a396-9dcc-4f76-aba4-e24005863895
eMMC UUID: UUID=f406a396-9dcc-4f76-aba4-e24005863895 ext4
Boot: $1 /dev/mmcblk2p1 ext4
Root: $2 /dev/mmcblk2p1
Usage: 3163
Dest: 6765

/etc/fstab:
UUID=20a438e5-56ab-4920-86aa-a4212c646ce2 / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0

/etc/mtab:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 / ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /var/log.hdd ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=600 0 0
/dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt/armbian-install.L5Opkq/bootfs ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt/armbian-install.L5Opkq/rootfs ext4 rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/zram1 /var/log ext4 rw,relatime,discard 0 0

Files currently open for writing:
vnstatd   1077          vnstat    3u   REG  179,1   147456  47252 /var/lib/vnstat/vnstat.db
tailscale 1489            root    2u   REG  179,1        0 132724 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log1.txt
tailscale 1489            root    7u   REG  179,1        0 132724 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log1.txt
tailscale 1489            root    8u   REG  179,1        0 132725 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log2.txt
master    2631            root   10uW  REG  179,1       17 132636 /var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid
master    2631            root   11uW  REG  179,1       17 132637 /var/lib/postfix/master.lock

Trying to stop running services to minimize open files:
Stopping cron.service
Stopping postfix@-.service
Stopping kvmd-nginx.service

Checking again for open files:
vnstatd   1077          vnstat    3u   REG  179,1   147456  47252 /var/lib/vnstat/vnstat.db
tailscale 1489            root    2u   REG  179,1        0 132725 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log2.txt
tailscale 1489            root    7u   REG  179,1        0 132724 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log1.txt
tailscale 1489            root    8u   REG  179,1        0 132725 /var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.log2.txt

Copying 82307 files to /dev/mmcblk2p1.

 

 

 

apt list |grep u-boot
...

u-boot-exynos/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed,automatic]
u-boot-imx/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed,automatic]
u-boot-menu/jammy 4.0.4ubuntu1 all
u-boot-nezha/jammy-updates 2022.04+git20220405.7446a472-0ubuntu0.2 all
u-boot-omap/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed,automatic]
u-boot-qemu/jammy-security,jammy-updates 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 all
u-boot-rockchip/jammy-security,jammy-updates 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf
u-boot-rpi/jammy-security,jammy-updates 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf
u-boot-sunxi/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed,automatic]
u-boot-tegra/jammy-security,jammy-updates 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf
u-boot-tools/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed]
u-boot/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 2022.01+dfsg-2ubuntu2.3 armhf [installed]

 

Edited May 3, 2023 by ducs4rs