I just ran the installer for 5.7 and it had no problems writing to the emmc. Tomorrow after work i might try bisecting to see what the last functional version was, but it really looks like there was a regression at some point.
> On Mar 21, 2021, at 16:41, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > > They do wear out, mine in my Pinebook Pro was about a year old when I > was seeing strange crashes. Loaded up a brand new SD card and I get > uptimes of a week or more. And refomatting a misbehaving sd or emmc > sometimes works wonders for ueexplainable reasons, it's like it needs > to be refreshed periodically.. > >> On 3/21/21, Jordon <open...@sirjorj.com> wrote: >> The issue is not the sd card - it is the onboard emmc. I dd’ed the miniroot >> image to a micro sd card. I the boot the bbb and run the installer. I set >> the install drive to the onboard emmc drive and when it tries to write to >> it, I get io errors. This used to work, as i had 5.6 on one of my bbb’s and >> 5.8 on another, both booting without micro sd cards in them. >> >> I have received messages that suggest that this never worked, but I know I >> did this years ago following a post from tedu’s website. >> >> And i did flash the debian ‘flasher’ image to the micro sd card, booted it, >> and had it run through its reimaging process, and afterwards the bbb booted >> debian just fine, so the micro sd card and the emmc are both functional. >> >> >>>> On Mar 20, 2021, at 14:52, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> man mount, then type /read-only to search, / to search for the same >>> thing >>> again. Sometimes a read-only mount happens if thare's something wrong. >>> >>> But reformat and try reloading before you throw it away. >>> >>>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 3:30 PM Fred <open...@crowsons.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 3/20/21 1:28 PM, Jordon wrote: >>>>> I recently decided to play with my BBB boards after ignoring them for a >>>> few years (one of them still had 5.6 installed on it!). I have 3 >>>> BeagleBone Black boards (2 with 2GB, 1 with 4GB). When i dd’ed >>>> miniroot-am335x-68.img to a uSD cards and booted it, it all seemed >>>> pretty >>>> normal until I got to the part where it actually writes to the onboard >>>> storage. It would fail due to IO errors. This happened on all 3 of my >>>> boards. I figured it was unlikely that all 3 would have bad flash so I >>>> re-imaged one with with a supported debian distro and it worked just >>>> fine. >>>>> Is there an issue with writing to the onboard storage in 6.8 or is >>>>> there >>>> some step I missed in the startup phase to get it working? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> with my BBB[1] I've never used the onboard storage I just boot the uSD >>>> with OpenBSD on. The output from fdisk is shown below [2]. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Fred >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> bbb:fred ~> dmesg|head >>>> OpenBSD 6.8 (GENERIC) #337: Wed Oct 7 01:35:49 MDT 2020 >>>> dera...@armv7.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/compile/GENERIC >>>> real mem = 477290496 (455MB) >>>> avail mem = 457314304 (436MB) >>>> >>>> [2] >>>> bbb:fred ~> doas fdisk sd0 >>>> doas (f...@bbb.crowsons.com) password: >>>> Disk: sd0 geometry: 233/255/63 [3751936 Sectors] >>>> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 >>>> Starting Ending LBA Info: >>>> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> *0: 0C 0 1 1 - 8 254 63 [ 63: 144522 ] >>>> FAT32L >>>> 1: 83 9 0 1 - 232 254 63 [ 144585: 3598560 ] >>>> Linux files* >>>> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] >>>> unused >>>> 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] >>>> unused >>>> bbb:fred ~> doas fdisk sd1 >>>> Disk: sd1 geometry: 966/255/63 [15523840 Sectors] >>>> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 >>>> Starting Ending LBA Info: >>>> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> *0: 0C 0 32 33 - 2 42 40 [ 2048: 32768 ] >>>> FAT32L >>>> 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] >>>> unused >>>> 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] >>>> unused >>>> 3: A6 2 42 41 - 966 80 10 [ 34816: 15489024 ] >>>> OpenBSD >>>> >>>> >> >> > > > -- > ------------- > Education is contagious.
