Helios64 - BookWorm Armbian 25.8.1 - After armbian-install to emmc OMV7 does not let me in, disks not mounted... what gets copied?

eClapton · 2025-09-22T21:11:22Z

Hello,

Armbian 25.8.1 on Helios64 BookWorm with Linux 6.12.42-current-rockchip64.

I have my system booting from SD with OMV7 installed and several docker containers running.

Everything is OK. Now I want to boot from emmc.

Used armbian-install selecting option boot from emmc - system on emmc.

Formatting and copying goes Ok, but when I reboot from emmc (extracting th SD card), OMV7 presents the web frontend, but can't log in.

journalctl reports errors accessing the drives, and looking on /etc/fstab, there's only the / partition mounted.

Inserting and mounting the SD card in /mnt/sdcard I can see that in /mnt/sdcard/etc/fstab there's a lot of drives ready to be mounted :

eclapton@helios64:~$ cat /mnt/sdcard/etc/fstab
UUID=a398270d-9378-4f2c-bedd-590b08234484               /       ext4    noatime,nodiratime,defaults,commit=120,errors=remount-ro        0 1
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0
# >>> [openmediavault]
/dev/disk/by-uuid/60c885fa-6af1-462c-bfa6-dc7fe706262f          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-60c885fa-6af1-462c-bfa6-dc7fe706262f      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl      0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/a79a14c0-3cf4-4fb9-a6c6-838571351371          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a79a14c0-3cf4-4fb9-a6c6-838571351371      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl      0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/7b71362f-4bb4-48b6-8867-37faaedef2eb          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-7b71362f-4bb4-48b6-8867-37faaedef2eb      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl      0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/1f1ea692-d1bb-4539-a578-0647ef752770          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-1f1ea692-d1bb-4539-a578-0647ef752770      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl      0 2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/fac27973-2eba-43b4-acd3-2c3c2b10a5d7          /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fac27973-2eba-43b4-acd3-2c3c2b10a5d7      ext4    defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl      0 2
# <<< [openmediavault]

So, I thought the actual fstab was going to be copied over, unless it has to be recreated each boot by OMV.

Also, I tried to copy /srv/salt and /srv/pillar from the old system on the SD card to the new one on the emmc, as instructed un Kobol's webpage, and it helps

making openmediavault-issue start, but the webpage doesn't still work.

sudo systemctl status shows nginx is not able to start :

eclapton@helios64:~$ sudo systemctl status nginx
× nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2025-09-22 23:07:25 CEST; 57s ago
       Docs: man:nginx(8)
    Process: 40902 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 82ms

sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server...
sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 nginx[40902]: 2025/09/22 23:07:25 [emerg] 40902#40902: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (2: No such file or >
sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 nginx[40902]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.

I suspect there's somewhere I have to change /dev/mmcblk1p1 for /dev/mmcblk0p1... but where?

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help.

Edited 1 hour ago by eClapton