01-17-2018, 01:02 PM
Hi,
I just purchased a Rock64 with 4GB RAM and 32GB emmc.
Have been trying to install and boot from a linux ubuntu .img on a micro sd card.
I flash the .img image to the card using either Pine64 Installer or Etcher (Ive tried both). No problems or errors with these.
I then insert the card into the slot on the rock64. Then connect cables, including hdmi monitor, ethernet cable, then power supply (the official one from Pine). The lights appear, and after a few seconds I get what look like bios messages on the screen, about the usb, and a number of mmcblk error messages, i/o buffer error mmcblkp1, mmcblkp2, mmcblkp5, mmcblkp7, I assume these are the partitions on the micro sd device.
but it goes no further. No linux.
do I have to do anything else?
Ive tried several different images, see list below. all with similar results.
~/Downloads/rock64/extractedimages$ ls -l
total 16200292
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 17:36 stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6797899264 Jan 4 21:31 xenial-mate-rock64-0.5.15-136-20180102-arm64-sd2emmc.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 19:06 xenial-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 19:17 xenial-minimal-rock64-0.6.9-160-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 7751073792 Jan 17 17:06 xubuntu-xenial-mate-20161215-longsleep-pine64-8GB.img
I´ve also tried removing the emmc chip and just using the micro sd, no difference, I still get the same messages.
I have also tried 3 different micro sd cards, an 8gb, 16gb and a brand new toshiba class 10 64gb, also with no difference.
According to the Noob Pine64 instructions, I should receive a linux login prompt, but it does not seem to get that far and I cant find any information about this problem or what to do.
Would be great if someone could throw some light on this.
I have experience with installing images to raspberry pi, so I'm not a complete novice in this, but this is my first experience with rock64. Is there some hardware issue which these images do not take account of?
I just purchased a Rock64 with 4GB RAM and 32GB emmc.
Have been trying to install and boot from a linux ubuntu .img on a micro sd card.
I flash the .img image to the card using either Pine64 Installer or Etcher (Ive tried both). No problems or errors with these.
I then insert the card into the slot on the rock64. Then connect cables, including hdmi monitor, ethernet cable, then power supply (the official one from Pine). The lights appear, and after a few seconds I get what look like bios messages on the screen, about the usb, and a number of mmcblk error messages, i/o buffer error mmcblkp1, mmcblkp2, mmcblkp5, mmcblkp7, I assume these are the partitions on the micro sd device.
but it goes no further. No linux.
do I have to do anything else?
Ive tried several different images, see list below. all with similar results.
~/Downloads/rock64/extractedimages$ ls -l
total 16200292
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 17:36 stretch-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 6797899264 Jan 4 21:31 xenial-mate-rock64-0.5.15-136-20180102-arm64-sd2emmc.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 19:06 xenial-minimal-rock64-0.5.15-136-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 2282749952 Jan 17 19:17 xenial-minimal-rock64-0.6.9-160-arm64.img
-rw-rw-r-- 1 7751073792 Jan 17 17:06 xubuntu-xenial-mate-20161215-longsleep-pine64-8GB.img
I´ve also tried removing the emmc chip and just using the micro sd, no difference, I still get the same messages.
I have also tried 3 different micro sd cards, an 8gb, 16gb and a brand new toshiba class 10 64gb, also with no difference.
According to the Noob Pine64 instructions, I should receive a linux login prompt, but it does not seem to get that far and I cant find any information about this problem or what to do.
Would be great if someone could throw some light on this.
I have experience with installing images to raspberry pi, so I'm not a complete novice in this, but this is my first experience with rock64. Is there some hardware issue which these images do not take account of?