Micha Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Hi all, first of all, I really like the dev-tools! I successfully developed my own Image (incl. patches etc.) and it's running great. But now I want to "burn" it to the Orange Pi's emmc directly, without using nand-sata-install ... it's necessary, because the target-image does not allow shell- and/or ssh-access (for purpose). So I flashed a "normal" armbian-image to my sd-card, copied my own image-file to the card, booted the card and wanted to 'dd' my image to /dev/mmcblk1. Everything went fine till now ... after rebooting w/o the sd-card plugged in, the loader hangs in a loop (Rebooting within 10 seconds) :/ I looked into the nand-sata-install-script and found nothing special in there, so I'm missing something? I even tried to flash the bootloader after flashing the image (as done in the nand-sata-install-script), without success, too. I don't have a serial console right now, so if someone maybe knows what to do ... I'm really stuck right now :/ -- Micha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 For manual install, you will need to tweak /boot/armbianEnv.txt as well as /etc/fstab in order to point to /dev/mmcblk1 as the rootfs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micha Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 Hi there, I did, and it worked. Well ... exactly one time. I tried to dd a new image some days later, but now the device refuses to boot. I removed the old partition at first, dd'ed the new image, cleared the bootloader, dd'ed the new u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin and tweaked the /boot/armbianEnv.txt ans /etc/fstab (as before). If you have any further hints ... -- Micha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 31 minutes ago, Micha said: dd'ed the new u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin Did you have done the dd with bs=1024 and seek=8 ? What does the Serial Debug port shows as log ? Is the U-Boot started ? where is it hanging while booting kernel ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micha Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 7 minutes ago, martinayotte said: Did you have done the dd with bs=1024 and seek=8 ? Yes: dd if=/usr/src/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1024 seek=8 status=noxfer Don't wonder about the path, the image I try to install is newer than the image on the sdcard I'm running for install Unfortunately I don't have a serial console right now, so I can't see anything. I checked /boot after dd'ing and it seems that the files are corrupted there, they all only consists of "^@^@" ... :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 35 minutes ago, Micha said: Unfortunately I don't have a serial console When playing with any SoC boards, it is very useful to have such USB-Serial dongle, they are cheap, about $0.99, I've more then 10 around so I don't have to unplug one somewhere to use it elsewhere ... 35 minutes ago, Micha said: files are corrupted there, they all only consists of "^@^@" ... Maybe the corruptions are already present in the image ... Do "fdisk -l TheImage.img" to determine first sector of rootfs, then do "sudo mount -o loop,offset=$((start_sector*sector_size)) TheImage.img /mnt", the check files in /mnt/boot if corruptions are already present ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micha Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 Checked, everything looks ok ... Just "burned" the image to sd and tried this ... device boots fine, everything looks ok. nand-sata-install works, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micha Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 Nevermind ... I completely rebuild the image and now it works. Don't ask, I changed nothing ... Btw.: is there any way to create a new partition while building an image? I did not found any option for this ... -- Micha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 4 hours ago, Micha said: Btw.: is there any way to create a new partition while building an image? I don't think so, at least not easily, since at first boot, the rootfs is expanded. But after that first boot, maybe you can reshrinking rootfs at a desired size with parted and use the freed space for a second partition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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