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Helping with install to eMMC #24

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kerta1n opened this issue Oct 1, 2023 · 37 comments
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Helping with install to eMMC #24

kerta1n opened this issue Oct 1, 2023 · 37 comments

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@kerta1n
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kerta1n commented Oct 1, 2023 •
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Hi @warpme,
Insane project you have here. I got two X96Q LPDDR3 boxes booted off of your image, and also tagged you on your minimyth2 repo, but wanted to know if I could help with figuring out how to install to the internal eMMC storage. I ended up using fdisk on one of the boxes, cloning the disk layout, and getting the H313 to recognize the internal storage as data, HOWEVER, I was unable to migrate the boot partition. Any way I could help here? Would be great to use these as IO-less RPi's (IK they are coming back in stock, but FOSS on a $10 device is crazy)
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warpme commented Oct 2, 2023

Hi,

May you pls look at https://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_eMMC
There is section about install u-boot from Linux....

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kerta1n commented Oct 3, 2023 •
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If I executed those commands, would this allow me to extract the current U-Boot contents/flash mainline U-Boot (with HDMI support)? And if so, what build would I need, or what config file would I need so that I can build it myself? I have a R620 server with 16C and 128GB of DDR3, so if something needs to be compiled, I can do that.

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kerta1n commented Oct 3, 2023 •
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I have access to U-Boot now, but when trying to run mmc bootbus 2 1 0 0 (mmc device is recognized as 2), it just spits out the help menu. Same goes for partconf but this build seems to allow modifying partitions thru the mmc command;

mmc info - display info of the current MMC device mmc read addr blk# cnt mmc write addr blk# cnt mmc erase blk# cnt mmc rescan mmc part - lists available partition on current mmc device mmc dev [dev] [part] - show or set current mmc device [partition] mmc list - lists available devices mmc hwpartition

Attached is the output of version, setenv, and bdinfo.
x96q-h313-uboot-info.txt

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kerta1n commented Oct 3, 2023

I see that you've already built a successful U-Boot image, so I'll stop worrying about that for now. I just can't figure out why the commands that linux-sunxi has on their website don't work/how you got the board's U-Boot to execute your U-Boot.

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warpme commented Oct 4, 2023

Oh - commands that linux-sunxi has on their website may not work probably because sunxi page is about older uboot ver?
I'm using mainline uboot 2021.07.
I don't have much time to look on emmc boot on allwinner.
Probably best will be to ask at irc.
pls see https://linux-sunxi.org/Category:Community

Also - when you manage successful boot from emmc - maybe you can:
-write wiki about this
-devel. small script to automate this (i.e. started from sd card booted box which will dd rootfs/boot image + write bootloader)

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kerta1n commented Oct 4, 2023

Oh - commands that linux-sunxi has on their website may not work probably because sunxi page is about older uboot ver?
I'm using mainline uboot 2021.07.

Yeah, and are you referring to mainline on the image?

I don't have much time to look on emmc boot on allwinner.

That's perfectly fine, but I figured since I have devices to mess around with I could do most of the lifting

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warpme commented Oct 4, 2023

Yeah, and are you referring to mainline on the image?

Yes.
It is 2021.07 mainline + patches:
https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/bootloaders/u-boot-h616/files

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kerta1n commented Oct 4, 2023

If I can compile it and install it onto a partition on the eMMC's storage, I will. One more thing though, what partition does your U-Boot recognize the eMMC as?

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warpme commented Oct 4, 2023

On my lpddr3 h313 box i have:

[    1.631687] sunxi-mmc 4022000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 2048 KB, uses new timings mode
[    1.633280] sunxi-mmc 4020000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new timings mode
[    1.668451] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
[    1.670454] mmc0: new high speed SDXC card at address b368
[    1.671749] mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 NCard 58.2 GiB
[    1.675577]  mmcblk0: p1 p2 p3
[    1.706795] mmc2: new DDR MMC card at address 0001
[    1.708045] mmcblk2: mmc2:0001 P1J95K 7.30 GiB
[    1.711944]  mmcblk2: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 p16 p17
[    1.716431] mmcblk2boot0: mmc2:0001 P1J95K 2.00 MiB
[    1.719355] mmcblk2boot1: mmc2:0001 P1J95K 2.00 MiB
[    1.914516] sunxi-mmc 4021000.mmc: allocated mmc-pwrseq
[    1.937543] sunxi-mmc 4021000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new timings mode
[    1.953645] mmc3: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001

it looks like:
mmc0 is sd card
mmc2 is emmc

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kerta1n commented Oct 4, 2023 via email

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warpme commented Oct 4, 2023

h313 lpddr3 uboot from my build:
u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin.zip

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kerta1n commented Oct 5, 2023

Is it possible for me to include HDMI support for U-Boot so I can interface with it over just the monitor and NOT UART?

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warpme commented Oct 5, 2023

Oh - hdmi support in uboot is rather big think (in sense of implementation). In allwinner i would rather not expect support soon...

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kerta1n commented Oct 5, 2023

Alright. I tried just booting U-Boot on an SD card, and it seemed to have flashed it to the Boot0 partition. I rebooted your miniarch image, and am following the steps from linux-sunxi to try and reflash the new U-Boot image to Boot0.

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kerta1n commented Oct 5, 2023 •
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Seems to have crashed it, as there is no output whatsoever from UART. Any ideas?

Here is the output of U-Boot from the SD card.

No working controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
=> mmc list
mmc@4020000: 0 (SD)
mmc@4021000: 3
mmc@4022000: 2
=> mmc dev 2
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110

The same goes for mmc dev 3

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warpme commented Oct 5, 2023

hmm - this might be issue with emmc support in uboot.
I think better approach will be to deal with writing to emmc under booted linux - as under linux we have very recent emmc support code (fixes, improvements) while under uboot emmc code is from 2021 (2y old)....

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kerta1n commented Oct 10, 2023

Let me boot the thing back to factory, I'm going to re-try DD'ing the updated U-Boot build once I can get miniarch up and running again

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kerta1n commented Oct 15, 2023 •
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I just got a S905W2 box off of AliX. I'm having the exact same issue that others are having, and its the -110 error.
https://github.com/devmfc/debian-on-amlogic

Maybe this would help @warpme?

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warpme commented Dec 8, 2023

Usually boot from eMMC is SoC specific so direct repeating procedure for AMlogic not works for Allwinner.
I don't have plans (and time/energy - as i'm doing this project as hobby in spare time) to work on eMMC booting.
By above - If you mind - i'm closing with status "not planned"

@warpme warpme closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Dec 8, 2023
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@kerta1n Hi, were you able to install MiniArch on X96Q LPDDR3?

I have the same box and I want to install MiniArch too on eMMC

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kerta1n commented Feb 16, 2024

Nope, it's been a while now but there were just too many errors

@aldolo69
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Nope, it's been a while now but there were just too many errors

did you succede? i've got a full install now on sd which sometime boot and sometime not. is your boot 100% reliable?

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kerta1n commented Apr 8, 2024

did you succede? i've got a full install now on sd which sometime boot and sometime not. is your boot 100% reliable?

Nope, couldn't find the internal emmc under /dev

@jalbrethsen
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I was able to install to emmc with X96Q LPDDR3 without too much difficulty. I first installed via sd card, then booted from that install I did the following.

  1. Use fdisk to delete all the partitions on /dev/mmcblk2 (not sure if this part was necessary).
  2. Download the miniarch image and used the dd command to write it to /dev/mmcblk2.
  3. Mounted the newly created emmc boot partition (/dev/mmcblk2p1) and edit the extlinux.conf and change the root device to /dev/mmcblk2p2.
  4. Shutdown and remove the SD card and it booted fine from emmc.

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pdouby commented Jun 4, 2024

I was able to install to emmc with X96Q LPDDR3 without too much difficulty. I first installed via sd card, then booted from that install I did the following.

  1. Use fdisk to delete all the partitions on /dev/mmcblk2 (not sure if this part was necessary).
  2. Download the miniarch image and used the dd command to write it to /dev/mmcblk2.
  3. Mounted the newly created emmc boot partition (/dev/mmcblk2p1) and edit the extlinux.conf and change the root device to /dev/mmcblk2p2.
  4. Shutdown and remove the SD card and it booted fine from emmc.

Works like a charm! Thanks!

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I was able to install to emmc with X96Q LPDDR3 without too much difficulty. I first installed via sd card, then booted from that install I did the following.

  1. Use fdisk to delete all the partitions on /dev/mmcblk2 (not sure if this part was necessary).
  2. Download the miniarch image and used the dd command to write it to /dev/mmcblk2.
  3. Mounted the newly created emmc boot partition (/dev/mmcblk2p1) and edit the extlinux.conf and change the root device to /dev/mmcblk2p2.
  4. Shutdown and remove the SD card and it booted fine from emmc.

Having not much experience with linux, this even worked for me! Awesome project here.

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kerta1n commented Jun 5, 2024

I was able to install to emmc with X96Q LPDDR3 without too much difficulty. I first installed via sd card, then booted from that install I did the following.

  1. Use fdisk to delete all the partitions on /dev/mmcblk2 (not sure if this part was necessary).
  2. Download the miniarch image and used the dd command to write it to /dev/mmcblk2.
  3. Mounted the newly created emmc boot partition (/dev/mmcblk2p1) and edit the extlinux.conf and change the root device to /dev/mmcblk2p2.
  4. Shutdown and remove the SD card and it booted fine from emmc.

Works like a charm! Thanks!

I will give this a shot, thanks for the post

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warpme commented Jun 5, 2024 •
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@jalbrethsen
May you pls give me more details (steps, log) when install on emmc by using install-on-emmc.sh failed for you?
install-on-emmc.sh is in fact doing steps you done (+ some more)

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xAbdaziz commented Jun 5, 2024

@jalbrethsen May you pls give me more details (steps, log) when install on emmc by using install-on-emmc.sh failed for you? install-on-emmc.sh is in fact doing steps you done (+ some more)

It failed for me too, in my case it says "Couldn't calculate usage of mmcblk2, Exiting now"
Where can I find logs for the command?

@Proguard007
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I think I still had to do "sed -e 's/warped.inet2.org/miniarch.mooo.com/g' -i /etc/pacman-miniarch.conf" from another issue before

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I think I still had to do "sed -e 's/warped.inet2.org/miniarch.mooo.com/g' -i /etc/pacman-miniarch.conf" from another issue before

Thanks! This was a life saver for me.

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@jalbrethsen May you pls give me more details (steps, log) when install on emmc by using install-on-emmc.sh failed for you? install-on-emmc.sh is in fact doing steps you done (+ some more)

I just tried this again I get the error "Couldn't calculate usage of mmcblk2p, Exiting now". I appended "| sed 's/p//g' " in line 259 to remove the 'p', after that your script ran fine and installed correctly to emmc.

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warpme commented Jun 6, 2024

May you pls try attached script and provide me log?
install-on-emmc.zip

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warpme commented Jun 7, 2024

I found miniarch related bug...
You may try this script:
install-on-emmc.zip

@Blue-Mink
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You can refer to this issues.
#37

@jalbrethsen
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I found miniarch related bug... You may try this script: install-on-emmc.zip

I just did a fresh install and tried this script to install to emmc. It worked perfectly, thanks!

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warpme commented Jun 8, 2024

thx for testing!

@warpme warpme closed this as completed Jun 8, 2024
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