NanoPi R1 eMMC install fails to start

[ScottV]

Armbian Jammy (Minimal CLI) boots/works fine from an SD Card. (Armbian_23.5.2_Nanopi-r1_jammy_current_6.1.30_minimal.img.xz)

apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove
apt install armbian-config -y
armbian-install

I choose option #2 - Boot from eMMC - System on eMMC

Accept the warning.

I choose option #1 - ext4

The install appears to move along smoothly.

I choose the "Power Off" option.

Pull the power, remove the SD Card.

Reconnect the power.
I never see the "heartbeat" on the "System"(red) LED.
The NanoPi never boot or obtains an IP address.
 

Edited June 10, 2023 by ScottV

[Werner]

Can you hook up a serial console to see where it fails?

[ScottV]

@Werner,

Unfortunately, I do not have the necessary hardware to set up a serial console connection.
 

[Gul-Dukat]

I have observed the same problem. My NanoPi-R1 - which interestingly identifies at a NEO on the boot UART console......

I do have a serial UART console. So have captured my findings. Albeit limited as verbosity isnt set high and the console log when booting the SD armbian image

 

Armbian_23.5.2_Nanopi-r1_bookworm_current_6.1.30_minimal.img.xz SHA: ea10d9a0940a516be9f627f4a943caf39f3c2f3d1e80afafc95f78c65e4d2d10

Written to a 8G Sandisk SD. Put into the SD slot and powered the unit on.

 

Console output gets to Starting Kernel ... and then the red LED light just blinks and blinks for a long time with no change.

 

Unit has DHCPd and I am able to ssh into it with the root defaults. Establish my new root passwd and setup a user account and locale details etc.

 

I then run the 

nand-sata-install

 

Select the emmc and it takes about 2 minutes to copy over after all the warnings etc.

 

 

 Armbian for NanoPi R1 install script, https://www.armbian.com
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                                   x All done. Power off                                                x
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root@nanopi-r1:~#
Then the unit reboots and the console comes alive and displays.

 

U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Jun 06 2023 - 04:52:59 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
MMC Device 1 not found
spl: could not find mmc device 1. error: -19
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
 

 

https://paste.armbian.com/ivopizatot

Edited June 13, 2023 by Gul-Dukat

[fuzzyhypothesis]

Say did anyone figure this out?  I noticed its still an issue with latest/greatest.

[Le Mka]

I have the same problem, the debug console output is as follows:

U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Jun 06 2023 - 04:52:59 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
MMC Device 1 not found
spl: could not find mmc device 1. error: -19
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

This looks like a problem that has occurred in the past, the cause may be related to the eMMC driver in u-boot, I found some links:

https://community.ipfire.org/t/friendlyarm-nanopi-r1-flash-image-to-emmc/594/5

https://wiki.ipfire.org/hardware/arm/friendlyelec/nanopi-r1

Quote

The default bootloader in the image boots from mmc0 (SD-Card), however the eMMC (Flash-ROM) is connected to mmc2. To boot from the eMMC you need a special u-boot that switches mmc0 to mmc2.

 

[Igor]

1 hour ago, Le Mka said:

I have the same problem

 

Try latest images from CI automated build section - should be fixed by now. Stable images rebuild = soon.
https://www.armbian.com/download/

[Le Mka]

34 minutes ago, Igor said:

Try latest images from CI automated build section - should be fixed by now.

Thanks for your reply, I just tried the latest ci build: Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.294, but it still doesn't work.

U-Boot SPL 2023.07.02-armbian (Aug 26 2023 - 11:57:38 +0000)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC2
MMC Device 1 not found
spl: could not find mmc device 1. error: -19
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

Should i wait for the next build?

[Igor]

10 minutes ago, Le Mka said:

Should i wait for the next build?

 

Debugging and fixing is not automatic. You will need to fix it first. When your fix will be merged, then new build will provide fixed results ... It could be this.