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Initramfs can't find /dev/mmcblk1p1


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Hi all,

I have been using armbian jammy on my potato without issues.

But since the weekend it only boots to initramfs and says can't find mmcblk1p1

I put the sdcard a live gparted and partitions are and verified.

In initramfs I can find in /dev the mmcblk0p1 but not the mmcblk1p1

Now how can I change the boot or the name of the device?

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Board: Le Potato
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Another info, in initramfs I created a symlink to the missed file

ln /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk1p1

After having the link created I typed exec init and it started to boot, but off course it fails, because the initramfs gets cleaned. So where the hell is where I change the name is the mmc file to boot?

Best regards

 

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This is interesting one. Kind of like how sd card names are different between different version of RPi.

 

You haven't mentioned the image you are using. But from the post I am deducing it was working fine for you until you installed an update?

 

I am not 100% sure as this is not a device I work with. But generally the root device is set in a file called armbianEnv.txt. Here is something for you to try 

 

mount your root partition

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt

check if /mnt/boot/armbianEnv.txt exists

ls /mnt/boot/armbianEnv.txt

if it doesn't exists, create it. Replace <Your UUID> with UUID shown in output of blkid command

echo "rootdev=UUID="<Your UUID>" > /mnt/boot/armbianEnv.txt

unmount your root partition

umount /mnt

and reboot

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Many Thanks Gunjan Gupta

It really worked the adding of the line echo

 

Indeed i had done some updates, but i don't remember if i did any to kernel or something like that.

The line echo had to be changed to like

 

echo rootdev=UUID="<Your UUID>" >> /mnt/boot/armbianEnv.txt

Because the file existed, but had no line to boot the sdcard.

 

Thanks once again.

Hope this helps others.

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