Guitch Posted November 5, 2017 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted November 6, 2017 Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guitch Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkin-corpse Posted November 19, 2017 Share 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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