Guitch Posted November 5, 2017 Posted November 5, 2017 (edited) Hello all, I am very excited to install armbian debian jessie on my cubietruck ! I managed to get the Armbian_5.31_Cubietruck_Debian_jessie_next_4.11.5.img to an SD card, plugged it in, switched it on and everything went perfectly fine! Great! Now, I am trying to get this OS on the CT Nand. Sadly, the nand-sata-install doesn't work, returning the message : "There are no targets. Please check your drives". One very strange thing to me is the output of the /proc/partitions files that shows the following : major minor #blocks name 1 0 4096 ram0 1 1 4096 ram1 1 2 4096 ram2 1 3 4096 ram3 179 0 15351296 mmcblk0 179 1 15196752 mmcblk0p1 What is this ram showing up ?! The Nand currently contains an image of lubuntu server (ct-lubuntu-server-nand-v2.0.img) with 3.4.79 kernel. When I boot on this system, the output of /proc/partitions file, does show (obviously) the nand partitions : major minor #blocks name 93 0 7520256 nand 93 1 65536 nanda 93 2 7340032 nandb 93 3 98304 nandc Any explanation on why the nand is not accessible when I boot on the SD card containing the armbian ? What are these 4 4096 ram blocks when booting on the amrbian system on SD card ? How can I transfer the SD card system on to the Nand ? Thanks a lot for your help! Guitch Edited November 5, 2017 by Guitch
Igor Posted November 6, 2017 Posted November 6, 2017 7 hours ago, Guitch said: Any explanation on why the nand is not accessible when I boot on the SD card containing the armbian ? Install Armbian with legacy kernel if you want to use NAND (not recommended since its slower than recent SD cards). There is no support for NAND in a modern kernel.
Guitch Posted November 10, 2017 Author Posted November 10, 2017 Hello Igor, Thanks very much for your quick answer (unlike me :)) ! I now understand that nand cannot be accessed from your Debian Jessy image. I was not aware NAND was slower (which obviously is, I run some performance tests and my class 10 sd card is twice as fast) but was quite surprised to have a clear impression of a slower system than the previous one (lubuntu 13.10) that was installed on nand... I do not know exactly why... I will investigate further... Thanks again! Guitch
walkin-corpse Posted November 19, 2017 Posted November 19, 2017 On 11/6/2017 at 9:22 AM, Igor said: Install Armbian with legacy kernel if you want to use NAND (not recommended since its slower than recent SD cards). There is no support for NAND in a modern kernel. So "Armbian_5.31_Cubieboard2_Debian_jessie_next_4.11.5" has no NAND support? Damn, I ruined my install, selected "install Next kernel" and... Now either to reinstall 3.4 to NAND or install 4.1 on SD?
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