Luckfox Lyra zero W unable to boot with community mantained image

[Sune]

Hello everyone!

 

Saw that some luckfox boards were getting supported and I was like: YES!!!

Flashed an sd-card with the community image. Latest I could find is 25.11.0-trunk.413. And plonked in my working Luckfox Lyra Zero W and it failed to boot.

 

From what I gather there seems to be a missing partition called "misc" and I think it is expected about after the current unallocated 16MB(16,777,216 bytes).

I tried creating a 4MB partition after the current unallocated space but it complained about something called "Magic" and my limited u-boot/rockchip/embedded linux experience made me get lost there.

 

This is the serial output: Where the "No misc partition" is where I began. My current board has buildroot flashed to the SPI and boots if i don't have any sd-card inserted.

 

DDR 0ac6b06a19 typ 24/11/13-17:22:47,fwver: v1.04
tREFI:4x, sr_idle:93, pd_idle:13
PHY drv:clk:40,ca:48,DQ:40,odt:240
vrefinner:50%, vrefout:50%
dram drv:40,odt:120
sr_dq:0, sr_ca:0, sr_clk:0
rg:0xc-0x1-0x2, 0x3d-0x0-0x2,status:a007
rdtrn:0x14-0x30-0x4c(0x38)
wrtrn:0x3-0x20-0x3d(0x3a)
DDR3, 750MHz
BW=16 Col=10 Bk=8 CS0 Row=15 CS=1 Size=512MB
out
U-Boot SPL board init
U-Boot SPL 2017.09-g4d88b0a #hxj (Jul 30 2025 - 20:08:42)
sfc cmd=03H(6BH-x4)
SPI Nand ID ef aa 22
unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: ff, ef, aa
Trying to boot from MMC1
No misc partition
spl: partition error
Trying fit image at 0x4000 sector
## Verified-boot: 0
## Checking op-tee 0x00001000 ... sha256(93603ca22c...) + OK
## Checking u-boot 0x00100000 ... sha256(606b868a00...) + OK
## Checking fdt-1 0x0018baf0 ... sha256(6ae9f912c7...) + OK
Jumping to U-Boot(0x00001000)
I/TC: 
I/TC: OP-TEE version: 3.13.0-958-g46dcf51e88a #chenjh (gcc version 10.2.1 20201103 (GNU Toolchain for the A-profile Architecture 10.2-2020.11 (arm-10.16))) #2 Thu Mar  6 10:17:27 CST 2025 arm, fwver: v2.10 
I/TC: Status: cluster=0xc00, core=0xe100, bootcpu=0
I/TC: Next entry point address: 0x03f011a7
I/TC: OP-TEE memory size: TEEOS 0x5e000 TA 0x1000 SHM 0x1000
I/TC: Primary CPU initializing
I/TC: Primary CPU switching to normal world boot

 

[Sune]

So I am not a person to give up on this

 

I basically took the partition scheme of a working ubuntu img and inserted the armbian partition and got further along.

I changed it to below and got further along! Check the log for more information. Hint it threw some panic stuff, I wasn't expecting much but got further along. Hope someone can see what is wrong and help me troubleshoot.

 

 

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd
Disk /dev/sdd: 28.85 GiB, 30979129344 bytes, 60506112 sectors
Disk model: Storage Device  
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 863CE3B9-B148-45D1-B850-79AC22F0EB72

Device     Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdd1   8192    16383     8192    4M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdd2  16384    40959    24576   12M Linux filesystem
/dev/sdd3  65536 60504063 60438528 28.8G Linux filesystem

 

screenlog.log

[Sune]

I see now with some examination this:

[    1.995057]3 614e0000-0000-4b53-8000-1d2800995194] No filesystem could moun ext4
[    1.995269] 
[    1.9g: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 002577] CPU2: stopping

 

The reason for the missing characters is likely the shitty CH340 I have connected as the serial monitor. Should still be able to see the issue.

[Sune]

I fixed the shitty dd stuff i did previously.

I got it to boot now.

 

It seems that the partitions need to be included in the image for it to work.

 

From inside the armbian image:
 

mmcblk0     179:0    0 28.9G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0    4M  0 part 
├─mmcblk0p2 179:2    0   12M  0 part 
└─mmcblk0p3 179:3    0 28.8G  0 part /var/log.hdd

 

I will build my own img and see if there is anything I can do about the non working usb. I think it might likely be related to dts 

Edited 13 hours ago by Sune

[Sune]

Building a new image did not solve the issue.

no output on lsusb when plugging in anything.

no output related to usb on dmesg.

 

I personally think it is related to missing dts information.

 

I did find this: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/configs/rk3506-usb-otg.config

And this: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/configs/rk3506-usb-host.config

Which I hope will enable me to use the usb.

Specifcially: CONFIG_USB_COMMON=y & CONFIG_USB_GADGET=y & CONFIG_USB=y

 

 

Will see what I can do after work today since it is friday

 

Also for my own information, Here is the dtsi for the rk3506: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3506.dtsi

And also this one: https://github.com/armbian/linux-rockchip/blob/rk-6.1-rkr5.1/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3506b-luckfox-lyra-zero-w-sd.dts