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ZeroPi booting with 25.5.0-trunk.256, but not newer images


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Originally I tried to use DietPi and opened a bugreport there: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/7715

 

But DietPies support for the ZeroPi is based on armbian, so I tried this directly:

 

oldest image not working: Armbian_community_25.8.0-trunk.338_Zeropi_bookworm_current_6.12.35_minimal.img.xz

bootlog12.txt

 

newest image working: Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.256_Zeropi_bookworm_legacy_6.1.104_minimal.img.xz

bootlog13.txt

 

Does anybody have an idea what it could be?

Edited by TimoA
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The raised U-Boot version here is the culprit: https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/b8844c9
Maybe done by accident, since the commit/PR message does not mention the ZeroPi at all, or that it has been successfully tested on that board. Removing those two lines

BOOTBRANCH="tag:v2025.04"
BOOTPATCHDIR="v2025-sunxi"

, reverting to U-Boot v2024.01 and respective patch dir, solves it for us. Of course, if someone finds time, it would be interesting to find out which missing patches or changes in upstream U-Boot are causing the issue. What I see in our logs is that the last starting and never finishing service is one which calls "udevadm settle", hence waits for udev rules to be processed, endlessly.

The NanoPi NEO image boots on the board, but using the NanoPi NEO device tree on the ZeroPi image does not boot, which left only the bootloader as culprit. Maybe it puts some device into a bad state which causes the kernel/udev hang.

Duplicate topic: 

 

Edited by MichaIng

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