How to enable uboot_debugging option via userpatches?

[AlexCrux]

Hi all, Is there any working way to enable detailed logs from uboot? I am using fresh main branch (latest commit is 4648add1450c1b26bb29bf412ef054b0e978947d) . I have created following config inside userpatches/config-test.conf.sh file

BOARD="orangepizero"
BRANCH="current"
RELEASE="jammy"
BUILD_MINIMAL="yes"
PREFER_DOCKER="yes"
DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE="ubuntu:jammy"
BOOTDELAY=2
UBOOT_DEBUGGING="yes"

My command to build image is ./compile test. As I understand from source code UBOOT_DEBUGGING variable should enable such detailed uboot logs, but it seems like build framework ignored this option, I did not get detailed logs from uboot, also build logs do not contain info messages related with enabled UBOOT_DEBUGGING, etc.

P.S. Just for context - I have board wukongpih3zero (clone of orangepi zeor) and booting  is hanging at unexpected mcc1 slot instead of microsd mcc0 - that's why I need detailed boot logs.

Edited Tuesday at 08:24 PM by AlexCrux

[Werner]

10 hours ago, AlexCrux said:

UBOOT_DEBUGGING

never heard of that one before.

Serial console is enabled by default on all boards (lookup your board manual on where to connect) which also outputs uboot logs while on early boot stage.

For increased kernel verbosity set verbositoy to 7 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt

[AlexCrux]

I have took this variable from Here. Actually the first thing I tried to observe is uart logs. But they are very minimalistic like that:

 

U-Boot SPL 2024.01-armbian-2024.01-S866c-P6b16-Ha5c2-V367a-Bb703-R448a (Apr 29 2025 - 02:50:09 +0000) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1

 

It's from offial image from website, but the compiled image on my side has the same logs and effect

 

 

Edited yesterday at 07:46 AM by AlexCrux

[Werner]

Hm interesting. Didn't know this exists. But if it doesn't work I suggest to run a build with also DEBUG=yes set and then share the whole log using the curl command provided at the end. May give some clues if this fails to apply or works as intended.

[AlexCrux]

Thank you for hints. Curl approach is not working, too big file for request. Here is log file of build which was adviertised to push into pastbin (debug=yes option was passed)

log-build-8431ff32-1cf8-4fe6-9eeb-6f46f683c875.log.zip

[AlexCrux]

Minor update, I hardcoded usage of uboot debugging option and removed cache to force compiling uboot. But output from bootloader remained the same:

U-Boot SPL 2024.01_armbian-2024.01-S866c-P7738-Ha5c2-Vcc17-Bf389-R448a (Jan 08 2026 - 10:33:14 +0000)
DRAM: 512 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1

Maybe detailed logging was already enabled? But it still does not give me any hints. Especially my board does not contain any additional slots like emmc, only for micro sd card (I don't understand why bootloader tries to use mmc1)

UPD: I find out question with a little bit similar problem (hang out on mmc1) but need time to understand the reason, maybe it has similar issue

 

Edited 34 minutes ago by AlexCrux