Jens Bauer Posted March 10, 2016 Posted March 10, 2016 Image: Armbian_5.04_Cubieboard2_Debian_jessie_4.4.3 Board: CubieBoard2 (SD+NAND version) Available platforms: i386 with Debian Jessie (sunxi tools) and PowerMac G5. Before Armbian, I had Cubian installed on an SD card. I saved the NAND root data and all the NAND? sub-partitions, so I have a full image of the original NAND and images of each partition. I took out the card, and inserted a fresh Armbian installation, it boots up quickly and works fine. However, as I wanted to set my CubieBoard2 up so it boots from a S-ATA disk (I bought a 1TB WDC drive), I decided to run nand-sata-install. But I got only one menu item to select, so I cancelled. I then did a cat /proc/partitions - to my big surprise, there was no 'nand' partitions. I did a ls -la /dev/ ... but no nand devices. I then decided to try booting from my Cubian SD card, but now the CubieBoard2 just blinks the LED. I can still boot from the Armbian SD card, but I'm quite puzzled what went wrong. My goal: To boot Armbian from the S-ATA disk on my CubieBoard2, so I can remove the MicroSD card from the MicroSD card slot. (I successfully partitioned the 1TB harddisk. Note: It took less than a second to partition it from the CubieBoard2).
Jens Bauer Posted March 11, 2016 Author Posted March 11, 2016 Some of the explanation might be found here ... "NAND is not supported yet." ... however, shouldn't /dev/nand be at least visible as a device ? I tried installing jessie/legacy on a microSD card, but when I boot from it, I can only log in as root, and all I can do is change the password from 1234 to whatever I desire, then I'm logged out. This repeats as often as I log in. -So I've decided to go for jessie/vanilla and hope for nand support. -This is the only real problem I've had. I've had great success with moving Armbian to the SATA harddisk using the nand-sata-install script (note: if you have more than 4 devices, they *are* listed in the box; just scroll using the down-arrow key). I've also moved /var and /home to their own partitions (along with a few others). I'm also using UUID= in fstab instead of /dev/sd??*
deck16 Posted May 16, 2016 Posted May 16, 2016 Hello there, I just installed cb-a20-lubuntu-12.10-v1.05.img on my Cubieboard 2' NAND using Phoenix Suit 1.10. Then, using a Armbian_5.10_Cubieboard2_Debian_jessie_4.5.2.raw image written on a MicroSD card: ls -lca /dev/nand* ls: cannot access '/dev/nand*': No such file or directory From http://www.armbian.com/cubieboard-2/ NAND is not supported yet. A few rows bellow: NAND install sometime fails. Dirty but working workaround: install Lubuntu to NAND with Phoenix tools and run install again. This is somehow confusing... is NAND on Cubieboard 2 supported or not?
Igor Posted May 16, 2016 Posted May 16, 2016 Read again, we have two different kernels and different limitations. NAND works, but not with Vanilla kernel. I really try not to make confusions. Perhaps we could use different colors do make more contrast ...
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