Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

so we still talking about the xu4 Quoting Mark Morgan Lloyd : On 27/07/18 01:15, Brian Sammon wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:57:09 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: The only possible mention is at Which links to https://fredericb.info/2016/

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 27/07/18 01:15, Brian Sammon wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:57:09 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: The only possible mention is at Which links to https://fredericb.info/2016/10/amlogic-s905-soc-bypassing-not-so.html which is particularly i

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:57:09 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 15:25:18 Brian Sammon wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost > > > more than the odroid, a jtag program

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Thursday 26 July 2018 14:32:08 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 26/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>> Wouldn't the file, if put on /media/slash, it seems dd would > >>> include /media/slash in that file, and the result even if it >

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 26/07/18 17:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Wouldn't the file, if put on /media/slash, it seems dd would include /media/slash in that file, and the result even if it didn't get into a recursion forever loop, would still be around 10GB bigge

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Thursday 26 July 2018 12:51:07 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 26/07/18 16:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > There are still wa

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 26/07/18 16:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For example, you can copy an entire

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Thursday 26 July 2018 03:06:31 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For > >> example, you can copy an entire device using dd to capture b

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 25/07/18 21:00, Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:15:03PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Really depends what you mean by an "image backup". I do a lot of stuff using "ye olde traditional" dd, either between devices or more often making an image of the entire device (i.e. includ

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 25/07/18 21:30, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: There are still ways of working round that sort of problem. For example, you can copy an entire device using dd to capture boot segments and partition layout, inspect and recreate the filesystems

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wednesday 25 July 2018 16:15:03 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 19:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > > I have not been successfull at "make pdfdocs", it hits something it > > doesn't like in the chapter on networking, not findin

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wednesday 25 July 2018 15:25:18 Brian Sammon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost > > more than the odroid, a jtag programmer and a special cable that > > cost well over $125 is required. And

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 08:15:03PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Really depends what you mean by an "image backup". I do a lot of stuff using > "ye olde traditional" dd, either between devices or more often making an > image of the entire device (i.e. including partition table etc.) to a file >

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 25/07/18 19:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I have not been successfull at "make pdfdocs", it hits something it doesn't like in the chapter on networking, not finding a file that is (or was) installed since this is now armbian, and which a

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 06:04:01 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > They acknowledged it, and told me how to fix it, but the fix cost more > than the odroid, a jtag programmer and a special cable that cost well > over $125 is required. And someone else recently advised me that UEFI > bypassing in the bi

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wednesday 25 July 2018 07:22:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 25/07/18 10:15, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2018 00:49:55 Brian Sammon wrote: > >> On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 > >> > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 > >>> > >>> I have

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 25/07/18 10:15, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2018 00:49:55 Brian Sammon wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux installer had no clue how to dea

Re: ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Wednesday 25 July 2018 00:49:55 Brian Sammon wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 > > > > I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux > > installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only op

ODROID XU4 and UEFI - Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:42:41 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 > > I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux > installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could find > in the bios was to disable the tcp chip, which

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 23/07/18 15:30, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 09:18:56PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: We've got an ODroid. The impression I got was that the hardware was fairly well done, but that the distro that came with it (some variant of Ubuntu) rather less so... the usual things ab

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 09:18:56PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > We've got an ODroid. The impression I got was that the hardware was fairly > well done, but that the distro that came with it (some variant of Ubuntu) > rather less so... the usual things about missing dependencies which can make

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 21/07/18 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote: And something is wrong with the locale, even a "dpkg-reconfigure locale" cannot create the locale vars needed. Getting a 9 line complaint from perl for every file processed. Referring to my notes for setting up pukka Debian on an RPi I note that the comm

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 21/07/18 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 14:58:35 gru...@manlymail.net wrote: take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could f

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Saturday 21 July 2018 15:37:24 Alan Corey wrote: > Error 2 is file not found, at least in C. Don't know what it's > looking for. > userspace.api the named string in a previous not show stopper failure, it is a directory and contains: conf.py index.rst no_new_privs.rst seccomp_filter.rst u

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Saturday 21 July 2018 14:58:35 gru...@manlymail.net wrote: > take a look at > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could find in the bios was to disable the tc

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

Error 2 is file not found, at least in C. Don't know what it's looking for. Sent from my Motorola XT1527 On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 3:30 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 10

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN > >> and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory. Ther

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

Hmpf, only 2 GB of RAM. I'd like to see 16 or 64. Or put an SODIMM socket on the board so you could plug in what you want. I generally consider RAM size more important than CPU speed. As far as the dead SD, have you tried formatting it in a phone or camera, then bringing it back to Linux? But

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory. There's a modicum of muttering that the 3B+ has broken something relating t

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

I'm liking Buster, I've been running arm64 that on this Pi since November by the date on my sources.list. Also pulling from unstable: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Smooth as silk at least for what I do

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on > >> a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat anc

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a > TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I > ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat anchor. > > Now I'm obviously not entir

Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat anchor. Now I'm obviously not entirely sure about this, and it /could/ be an unfortunate coincidence