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Armbian RAM issue - JambonLeVrai - 02-10-2023
I am trying to install a distribution on my Quartz64 Model-A 8GB, but can't seem to make any work properly. I've been used to armbian for quite a long time, so I wanted to use a headless armbian image. After trying images that I built myself, and images build by balbes150, everything always works correctly but the system does only see 2GB of RAM (using free). However, whenever I install Manjaro instead, free actually shows me the 8GB of RAM (which suggests that it is not a hardware issue). I also tried to install DietPi, but the system would always start in read only mode...
Has anyone run into this issue ?
RE: Armbian RAM issue - balbes150 - 02-11-2023
(02-10-2023, 05:35 PM)JambonLeVrai Wrote: I am trying to install a distribution on my Quartz64 Model-A 8GB, but can't seem to make any work properly. I've been used to armbian for quite a long time, so I wanted to use a headless armbian image. After trying images that I built myself, and images build by balbes150, everything always works correctly but the system does only see 2GB of RAM (using free). However, whenever I install Manjaro instead, free actually shows me the 8GB of RAM (which suggests that it is not a hardware issue). I also tried to install DietPi, but the system would always start in read only mode...Here is the solution for 8GB of RAM.
Has anyone run into this issue ?
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16312&pid=115412#pid115412
p.s.
Everything works fine on my instance with 4GB of RAM. I don't have a model with 8GB of RAM and no one responded to all my requests to provide UART logs when the system sees only 2 GB of RAM. So I can't fix this problem.
RE: Armbian RAM issue - diederik - 02-12-2023
(02-11-2023, 02:05 AM)balbes150 Wrote:(02-10-2023, 05:35 PM)JambonLeVrai Wrote: I am trying to install a distribution on my Quartz64 Model-A 8GB, but can't seem to make any work properly. I've been used to armbian for quite a long time, so I wanted to use a headless armbian image. After trying images that I built myself, and images build by balbes150, everything always works correctly but the system does only see 2GB of RAM (using free). However, whenever I install Manjaro instead, free actually shows me the 8GB of RAMHere is the solution for 8GB of RAM.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16312&pid=115412#pid115412
I think I read somewhere that armbian's u-boot is problematic and switching to EDK-EFI seems to support that thesis.