6.6 was the last release that works. 6.7 and 6.8 throw an input/output error when it tries to create the partitions (right after you choose ‘(W)hole disk’).
Am I the only person to try installing it to onboard storage in the last year? Or am I doing something wrong? > On Mar 21, 2021, at 23:26, Jordon <open...@sirjorj.com> wrote: > > 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.
