Hi, I had a couple and both had issues with the onboard storage after an upgrade. So no, you are not the only person. As both were aging and 32 bit I decided that they were better off being recycled and a couple of Pine A64's took their place.
Cheers. On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 10:01, Jordon <open...@sirjorj.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh
