Orange Pi Prime booting problem

bolo · May 16

Hi,

I've bought Orange Pi Prime from the second hand. I've also bought 5V 3A power supply. It it was booting with Debian and Armbian. I was using Kingston SDHC cards. Suddenly my board stopped booting from mmc card. I also tried to boot it from Sandisk A1 class card but with no success.

Do ypu think it is hardware malfunction or something else?

Werner · May 17

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bolo · May 18

I was downloading minimal/server images. This is an output from serial console:

U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian (Feb 09 2024 - 18:57:17 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

and pretty the same from older armbian version from another memory card:

U-Boot SPL 2023.07.02-armbian (Aug 31 2023 - 08:27:30 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

I have a problem with h2testw on my Windows 11 laptop. Laptop has buildin micro sd card reader that works but windows often shows memory card disk on the disks list but I cant assign drive letter. Additionaly I can't refresh the view. h2testw expects me to select drive.

I also tried to use other power supply (5V 2,5A - minimal for Orange Pi Prime) but with no success.

Edited May 19 by bolo

bolo · May 19

I think Windows Drives Management has difficulty with understanding Linux partitions. Hopefully SD Formatter detects SD cards without assigned drive letter. It formats cards to FAT16 and then Drives Management sees that drive and allows assigning drive letter. After that I was able to test one of my Kingston cards.

h2test2 output:

Warning: Only 14795 of 14796 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the test files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 9.82 MByte/s
Reading speed: 77.9 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Not very fast but with no problems. So I used that card and burned Armbian with balena Etcher. Earlier I wad using Rufus.

After all, booting stops in the same place.