On Mar 22 19:00:06, 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?
This is just to confirm that 7.0 also reports an IO error
when trying to install to the onboard mmc of my BBB;
installing on a uSD card works fine.
Jan
> > 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.
>
>
