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Mucked my /boot/armbianENV.txt - Board Wont Boot


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Noob question - Forgive me here, I'm quite new to u-boot. I made a change in my /boot/armbianENV.txt and my Tinkerboard won't boot. I know exactly what to fix, except I'm not accustomed to not being able to find the file. I've mounted the SD Card on another Linux OS and can see/mount all my partitions, I have them mounted but none of the /boot directories are what is typically there when armbian is booted. I'm assuming u-boot is an image and /boot gets dynamically created. Done some searching but not making much sense of what I'm seeing. How/Where do I find the /boot/armbianENV.txt file with the SD Card mounted to another machine?

 

Thanks in advance. 

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11 hours ago, Lexingtonian said:

I'm assuming u-boot is an image and /boot gets dynamically created.

Not at all ! It should be present ...

Either you have it mounted improperly or not looking at the right place, or you have mistakenly delete it ...

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@martinayotte Thanks for the quick reply! Below is my partition table on /dev/sda (the Armbian SD Card)

 

pi@raspberrypi:/media/pi/$ sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 14.6 GiB, 15615393792 bytes, 30498816 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xc38eda6e

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        8192    93596    85405 41.7M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2       94208 30498815 30404608 14.5G 83 Linux

 

 

Both partitions are mounted on Rasbian as:

 

/dev/sda2 on /media/pi/722a97e6-d105-48fe-b8a2-1920fdf3e04a type ext4 
/dev/sda1 on /media/pi/boot2 type vfat 

 

 

Weird thing is... here's the directory listing of /media/pi/boot2 (/dev/sda1) which looks nothing like what my /boot looked like when running Armbian..

 

pi@raspberrypi:/media/pi/boot2 $ ls -la
total 22161
drwx------  3 pi   pi      2560 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-x---+ 8 root root    4096 Dec  6 07:47 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     23315 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2708-rpi-0-w.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     22812 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2708-rpi-b.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     23071 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2708-rpi-b-plus.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     22589 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2708-rpi-cm.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     24115 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2709-rpi-2-b.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     25311 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     25914 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     24087 Dec  4 11:12 bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     52116 Dec  4 11:12 bootcode.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi       187 Dec  4 11:21 cmdline.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      1590 Jul  5  2017 config.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     18693 Aug 21  2015 COPYING.linux
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi        41 Dec  4 11:12 .firmware_revision
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      2622 Dec  4 11:12 fixup_cd.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      6695 Dec  4 11:12 fixup.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      9905 Dec  4 11:12 fixup_db.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      9899 Dec  4 11:12 fixup_x.dat
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi       145 Jul  5  2017 issue.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   4936888 Dec  4 11:12 kernel7.img
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   4688704 Dec  4 11:12 kernel.img
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi      1494 Nov 18  2015 LICENCE.broadcom
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi     18974 Jul  5  2017 LICENSE.oracle
drwx------  2 pi   pi     12800 Dec  4 11:12 overlays
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi    678372 Dec  4 11:11 start_cd.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   5122820 Dec  4 11:11 start_db.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   2864164 Dec  4 11:12 start.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 pi   pi   4059716 Dec  4 11:12 start_x.elf

 

 

 

Here's what /boot looks like on the main partition. (/dev/sda2). It's empty. All I did was make one edit of /boot/armbianENV.txt with nano and saved it then rebooted.

 

pi@raspberrypi:/media/pi/722a97e6-d105-48fe-b8a2-1920fdf3e04a/boot $ ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Oct 17  2017 ..

 

 

Is there another place to find the /boot used by u-boot? Confused as heck. :)

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4 minutes ago, Lexingtonian said:

Below is my partition table on /dev/sda (the Armbian SD Card)

I doubt that it is an Armbian image, Armbian has only 1 EXT4 partition, no FAT ...

Also, the directory listing you provide shows tons of Raspberry related files, not Armbian ones.

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27 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

I doubt that it is an Armbian image, Armbian has only 1 EXT4 partition, no FAT ...

Also, the directory listing you provide shows tons of Raspberry related files, not Armbian ones.

 

That thought occurred to me. Being very familiar with raspbian. It’s a Tinkerboard though and I naturally thought since it had an armbianENV that it was Armbian. So the mystery remains... where’d my /boot go? *shrugs* Thanks again for the reply’s!

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