spontaneously boot at initramfs

[vanbinsbergen]

I couldn't ping the pi anymore so i hook it up to HDMI.

 

There i see the initramfs prompt

 

What's up with that guys??

 

When i type df i only see

 

/dev

/run

 

Broken m.2 sata?

Edited October 26, 2023 by vanbinsbergen
more info

[Werner]

Debugging is impossible without further information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVMO7gbnYM

[chuckles67]

I've seen this 'initramfs' thing before and, whilst I don't know, I usually blame the microSD card being corrupted somehow.
 You are using m2 SATA - so may be different problem

[Tony3]

I think you need to do an fsck on your root and boot devices. 

Edited October 26, 2023 by Tony3

[royk]

It could be a lot of things, forgotten to write the bootloader to SPI and ejected the SD after the last boot, something went wrong while updating like wrong dtb, wrong dtb name in armbianEnv.txt

Wrong UUID in armbianEnv.txt or in /etc/fstab - you can see it with the command 'blkid'. Symlinks in /boot mixed up (different kernel versions).

 

But after all, the best thing to do is like what Werner said and explains in his video to check the serial console output and you'll see exactly where it fails. If you don't see it then post the boot log.

If you don't have a FTDI adapter (that supports a baudrate of 1500000)  even when you already found the problem, it's still recommended to buy one, saves a lot of time when you need it.