Banana Pi: unbootable after dist-upgrade

[mk16]

Hello,

 

First of all thanks for the very nice dist, it's clean and optimized.

 

Unfortunately the Banana Pi is unbootable after having done the following:

 

• Migrate the root fs to my USB drive and make it bootable with the nand-sata-install  script
• Change the hostname (modify /etc/hosts, modify /etc/hostname, run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh, reboot)
• run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, reboot

Each time the Banana Pi could not boot anymore, and that happened with both Jessie and Wheezie images.

 

I can't get any screenshots of the boot screen because it's a headless server.

 

Any ideas?

 

mk16

[Igor]

Thanks!

 

I'll check this ASAP.

 

Please tell me which kernel have you used, legacy 3.4.110 or vanilla? You probably used latest images (v4.5) ?

[mk16]

I've used those two vanilla images, v4.5 indeed:

 

 Wheezy & Jessie

 

When I did a dist-upgrade, the kernel was updated from 4.2.3 to 4.3.3, here's the /boot dir after the upgrade:

 

root@bananapi:/boot# ls -al

total 7572

drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    4096 Jan 19 21:31 .

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root    4096 Jan 19 21:12 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Jan 19 21:28 bin

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1896 Jan 19 21:17 boot.cmd

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1968 Jan 19 21:33 boot.scr

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  122375 Dec 28 11:27 config-4.3.3-sunxi

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   12288 Jan 19 21:26 dtb

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Dec 28 11:27 dtb.old

-rw-r--r--  1 root root       0 Jan 19 21:29 .next

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1988477 Dec 28 11:27 System.map-4.3.3-sunxi

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5591872 Dec 28 11:27 vmlinuz-4.3.3-sunxi

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      19 Jan 19 21:29 zImage -> vmlinuz-4.3.3-sunxi

[zador.blood.stained]

@Igor

I'm looking at diff between 4.2.3 and 4.3.3 config

4.2.3

CONFIG_PHY_SUN4I_USB=y

4.3.3

CONFIG_PHY_SUN4I_USB=m

[Igor]

It refuses to stay on Y ... I think it's something related to recent changes in USB area with OTG intro ... 

 

I try few combinations but no luck.

[mk16]

Should I pin the kernel packages to the 4.2.3 version for the time being?

 

I'm planning in the near future to boot from SATA, I suppose I won't be affected by the issue then?

 

Thanks for the quick answers btw

[Igor]

Yes, rather roll back to 4.2.3 until this is resolved.

 

SATA booting is working fine on all kernels.

[mk16]

Okay, will do.

[Igor]

It's fixed in 4.3.3 and higher (TESTED) if you build kernel on your own.

[mk16]

Great! I don't recall precisely the command, is it debuild? For now I've exluded the following packages from upgrade:

 

hi  linux-dtb-next-sunxi            4.5                               armhf        Linux DTB, version 4.2.3-sunxi
hi  linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 4.5                               armhf        Linux kernel firmware, version 4.2.3-sunxi
hi  linux-headers-next-sunxi        4.5                               armhf        Linux kernel headers for 4.2.3-sunxi on armhf
hi  linux-image-next-sunxi          4.5                               armhf        Linux kernel, version 4.2.3-sunxi
hi  linux-wheezy-root-next-bananapi 4.5                               armhf        Various root file system tweaks for ARM boards
 

Should I compile only the image package?

Edited January 20, 2016 by mk16

[mk16]

I managed to compile and install the latest stable kernel (4.3.4) using those instructions: http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/

 

Next time I'll RTFM