Armbian Support and Ideas/Just Building Blindly and Trying Here!

Hello…

I am building an Armbian build since support has been added. I was chatting online with some fellows about the process a long time ago. I have since fell off for builds with the BeagleV-Ahead.

Not much has changed in Armbian territory. Thank you!

Outside of the kudos and thanks there in text, I am building Armbian now with WSL2 and trying to port a build in /build/output/images/My_IMAGE.img and coming up short. It seems my .img file writes correctly without error but does not boot.

So, just some background:

  1. I have an image on the eMMC.
  2. The Armbian image is on micro SD Card.
  3. I fiddle away and can get the correct, already completed images to boot via micro SD Card.

So far, I cannot get a self-made image to boot properly…

I noticed that fat was the boot medium on the fs for the BBAI-64. I could be wrong but I always thought when adapting a micro SD Card for booting to beagleboard.org boards specifically, one needs to set up the formatting a bit differently. This could very well entail why it is I am having difficulty.

Anyway, any clues are welcomed.

Seth

P.S. I am building u-boot and the kernel now to get PCIe to work for Wifi on the BBAI-64 or other boards. @RobertCNelson , thank you for taking time out earlier to assist in the helping aspect to all things Linux and pointing in the right direction. Pinpointing why I am having such a rude time so far is just the icecap on these builds!

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So, I was able to boot into the system with Plucky. Phew…

Anyway, I think somehow I messed up my eMMC in the process.

[ 6.490732] Buffer I/O error on dev mmcblk1, logical block 7633648, async page read

I have mmcblk0 but not the mentioned mmcblk1 for whatever reason. I think trying blkdiscard on the system ruined it… Also, I got into a initramfs system with the image from the BeagleBoard.org Imager source but could not boot to eMMC.

I think I figured out why… Off to test.

Seth

Plucky works and so does Trixie…

Seth