Asus Tinkerboard 4.14 boot issue on upgrade

[HeyBig]

I have the same issue on my Tinkerboard, here's the armbianmonitor -U output:

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/jggvYDMbCX/

[Igor]

1 hour ago, HeyBig said:

I have the same issue on my Tinkerboard, here's the armbianmonitor -U output:

Don't understand the nature of the problem. BTW. Nightly images are not supported.

[Tido]

On 11/12/2018 at 8:40 PM, TonyMac32 said:

I would very much like the dmesg output you get when plugging your monitors in, and of course any serial debug output you can provide on failed boot events.

I connected UART 2 and repeated the procedure

 

before the update
root@tinkerboard:~# armbianmonitor -u
System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://ix.io/1rU6

after the update and after reboot:
root@tinkerboard:~# armbianmonitor -u
System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to http://ix.io/1rUc

 

Cold start, disconnect every power, also UART  -> no more boot:

Spoiler

 

U-Boot SPL 2018.09-armbian (Nov 12 2018 - 23:55:40 +0100)
Returning to boot ROM...
   
   
U-Boot 2018.09-armbian (Nov 12 2018 - 23:55:40 +0100)
   
Model: Tinker-RK3288
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   dwmmc@ff0c0000: 1, dwmmc@ff0f0000: 0
Loading Environment from EXT4... Card did not respond to voltage select!
In:    serial
Out:   vidconsole
Err:   vidconsole
Model: Tinker-RK3288
Net:   eth0: ethernet@ff290000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1 is current device
Scanning mmc 1:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
1485 bytes read in 1 ms (1.4 MiB/s)
## Executing script at 00000000
U-boot loaded from eMMC
155 bytes read in 2 ms (75.2 KiB/s)
** File not found /boot/dtb/rk3288-miniarm.dtb **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** File not found dtb/rk3288-miniarm.dtb **
4609312 bytes read in 205 ms (21.4 MiB/s)
8581872 bytes read in 378 ms (21.7 MiB/s)
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 21000000 ...
   Image Name:   uInitrd
   Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    4609248 Bytes = 4.4 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree
Could not find a valid device tree
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
starting USB...
USB0:   USB1:   scanning bus 0 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
   
Device 0: unknown device
ethernet@ff290000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete... done
Speed: 100, full duplex
BOOTP broadcast 1
DHCP client bound to address 192.168.11.2 (147 ms)
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
Cannot autoload with TFTPGET
missing environment variable: pxeuuid
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/01-2c-4d-54-42-c5-6f
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80B02
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80B0
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80B
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A8
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default-arm-rockchip
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default-arm
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default
Speed: 100, full duplex
*** ERROR: `serverip' not set
Config file not found

 

 

wasn't easy to get that out of the terminal. I hope it helps.

Here you can see what the SDcard looks like: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3327-asus-tinkerboard/?do=findComment&comment=65557

 

hmm, this file is no longer there: Linux version 4.14.59-rockchip, but the 4.14.50 sit's still there.

 

 

[TonyMac32]

Why on Earth is it looking for miniarm dtb...

 

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[Edit] Hang on, why is it showing u-boot from mmc and showing 2 mmc devices? Is this a tinker S?

[Tido]

This is the very first tinker board. Just SDcard

[TonyMac32]

3 minutes ago, Tido said:

This is the very first tinker board. Just SDcard

 

Fascinating.  Well then.

[TonyMac32]

As far as no boot after cold start, @Tido, I have to ask if you added "fdt_file=rk3288-miniarm.dtb" to the armbianEnv.txt file at some point, or if you upgraded from the 4.4 kernel.  There was a link in place so anything looking for rk3288-miniarm.dtb would get forwarded to the rk3288-tinker.dtb, @Igor had added it when the file names didn't match between mainline and Rockchip/ASUS code.  I can't remember where/how exactly it was stuck in there, but that could be it. <--Found it:  https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/9dbc69e0ed609185abbaf28144db714684b1f395#diff-92fd175af58f1b9b7cf350b58398929d

 

If you change the armbianEnv.txt file to have "rk3288-tinker.dtb" it should work.

 

Curiosity, how long have you been maintaining/upgrading this particular install?  None of mine go more than a couple weeks due to testing/etc.

[TonyMac32]

Split from main discussion as this appears to be a specific problem.

 

Re-created the symlink patch so future updates won't break.

[Tido]

This was a fresh install. I have chosen 4.14 because 4.4 at that time didn't support 1280x1024 whereas mainline did.

 

6 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

if you added "fdt_file=rk3288-miniarm.dtb" to the armbianEnv.txt file

I don't think so, I just took a backup and run the update every couple months until it finally broke.

 

11 hours ago, Tido said:

this file is no longer there: Linux version 4.14.59-rockchip, but the 4.14.50 sit's still there.

and why was the .59 Kernel removed and the .50 is still there ?  Is this an error in the script ?

 

6 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

If you change the armbianEnv.txt file to have "rk3288-tinker.dtb" it should work.

This would be awesome, but what happen to my tinker with the next update ?

 

6 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

Curiosity, how long have you been maintaining/upgrading this particular install? 

Well, if you look at the posting here of my backups, I installed circa March.  The 1 of March Image 4.4 still hadn't had 1280x1024

 

Not to forget,  4.4 armbian image still has random reboots I guess..  The MultiMedia Image

 

[Tido]

16 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

it should work.

You were right, it does boot again but..  it dies now exactly the same way as the 4.4 does :-(

[TonyMac32]

You were right, it does boot again but..  it dies now exactly the same way as the 4.4 does :-(

This I have not experienced, I used it for some web browsing/etc. Any logs of the crash this time?

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