Orange Pi RV2

[sven-ola]

Hello @Eule - what was you solution? When I had to guess: remove SD card to trigger eMMC boot?

 

@Logan There's a real large bunch of reasons, why you where not able to install. That screen shot probably does not show any hints. Copy and paste your terminal session where you hacked in installation commands to a text file. Then post it here as attachment, then I may be able to help. 

 

Best // Sven-Ola

Edited yesterday at 05:41 PM by sven-ola

[VBB]

Should I try opirv2-* image or Armbian-* one?

[sven-ola]

There is a Readme.txt stating: opirv2.img is for Nextcloud install, while Armbian is none of that. You probably want the latter.

[Logan]

@sven-ola there is no nvme device in the /dev

[sven-ola]

Hi @Logan thats probably the reason why your board does not boot from NVME.

[VBB]

I flashed gnome desktop from your website.
GPU script yields this error:
```

Preparing to unpack .../armbian-firmware_26.2.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking armbian-firmware (26.2.1) over (26.02.0-trunk) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-firmware_26.2.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to open '/lib/firmware/qcom/sm8550/ayn/odin2mini/a740_zap.mbn.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/armbian-firmware_26.2.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
```

Edited 5 hours ago by VBB

[VBB]

To fix that error I removed `/lib/firmware/qcom/sm8550/ayn/odin2mini` and other 2 symlinks. run `ls -la /lib/firmware/qcom/sm8550/ayn/` to show them.
I ran the script and did a reboot. Now I'm in the uboot command line and I see this error:
```

no nvme partition table available
[  10.473] Couldn't find partition nvme 0:1
[  10.477] Couldn't find partition nvme 0:1
[  10.481] Couldn't find partition nvme 0:1
[  10.485] Couldn't find partition nvme 0:1
[  10.489] Couldn't find partition nvme 0:1
```
I only have sd card plugged in.

Also this:
```

[   4.478] Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
[   4.510] 1:    Armbian-unofficial
[   4.510] Retrieving file: /boot/uInitrd
[   5.712] Retrieving file: /boot/Image
[   8.067] append: root=UUID=818a9fb1-4820-445e-9c18-e94a975ca969 earlycon=sbi console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 loglevel=1 rw no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0 splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles
[   8.086] Retrieving file: /boot/dtb/spacemit/k1-orangepi-rv2.dtb
[   8.133] ** File not found /boot/dtb/spacemit/k1-orangepi-rv2.dtb **
[   8.136] Skipping Armbian-unofficial for failure retrieving FDT
[   8.150] pcie_dw_k1x pcie@ca400000: has no power-on-status flag, use default.
[   8.155] Now init Rterm...
[   8.157] pcie prot id = 1, porta_init_done = 0
[   8.161] Now waiting portA resister tuning done...

 

```
I renamed `k1-orangepi-rv2.dtb` to `k1-x-orangepi-rv2.dtb` and it did let me to boot into DE. Kernel has probably updated incorrectly. `uname -r` and boot log shows 6.6.99-current-spacemit. Wifi module doesn't work either.
```
# inxi -G

Graphics:
  Device-1: saturn-le driver: spacemit_drm_drv v: N/A
  Device-2: hdmi driver: spacemit_hdmi_drv v: N/A
  Device-3: saturn-hdmi driver: spacemit_drm_drv v: N/A
  Display: server: X.Org v: 23.2.6 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: N/A
    resolution: 1920x1080~75Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.4,1.5 drivers: pvr,swrast,zink
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3 compat-v: 2.1 vendor: mesa v: 24.0.1 renderer: softpipe
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.275 drivers: N/A surfaces: N/A
```
I was able to update the kernel by installing `linux-kernel-edge-spacemit` and `linux-headers-edge-spacemit`, but wifi module still doesn't work. `bcmdhd-spacemit-sdio-dkms` is intalled though

Edited 2 hours ago by VBB

[sven-ola]

Ah - sorry for the confusion. Those Armbian*.img files are pre-installed. Means: the GPU stuff is already there. I am not sure what happens, if you run that GPU install again (I need to investigate, give me an hour). 

[sven-ola]

Aiee! Installed my old "Noble" image. Updating will remove kernel 6.18.18 and install 6.6.99 and also has the error in the firmware package as decribed above by @VBB. Also, that funny "cli.github.com/packages" repo does not work. While that kernel downgrade is probably caused by linux-image-current-spacemit moved from 6.6.99 to 6.18.x recently (and the Armbian repos are out of date somehow) that firmware package should update without any errors. Will need time to sort this out. Anyhow, the "Noble" image works with GPU-activated Gnome desktop as long as you do not update (downgrade)...

Edited 1 hour ago by sven-ola