(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

(11-17-2019, 11:25 AM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

"I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card". Very good observation!

The journal is unfortunately not persistent. Make it persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf of the SD card and boot one more time.

(11-17-2019, 11:25 AM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

"I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card". Very good observation!

The journal is unfortunately not persistent. Make it persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf of the SD card and boot one more time.

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(11-17-2019, 11:25 AM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

"I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card". Very good observation!

The journal is unfortunately not persistent. Make it persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf of the SD card and boot one more time.

I think, Mrfixit's OS has sshd enabled and a default password. Can you ssh into the failed boot and look around?

(11-17-2019, 12:45 PM)vfr400racer Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:25 AM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

"I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card". Very good observation!

The journal is unfortunately not persistent. Make it persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf of the SD card and boot one more time.

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(11-17-2019, 11:25 AM)Der Geist der Maschine Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

"I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card". Very good observation!

The journal is unfortunately not persistent. Make it persistent in /etc/systemd/journald.conf of the SD card and boot one more time.

I think, Mrfixit's OS has sshd enabled and a default password. Can you ssh into the failed boot and look around?

I set "Storage=persistent" on the sd cards's journald.conf. After booting /var/log/messages ends with

Nov 17 15:01:48 Debian-Desktop kernel: [    6.072196] wl_run_escan: LEGACY_SCAN sync ID: 0, bssidx: 0
Nov 17 15:01:49 Debian-Desktop kernel: [    6.820847] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): resizing filesystem from 1280000 to 15559168 blocks
Nov 17 15:01:49 Debian-Desktop kernel: [    7.025774] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): resized filesystem to 15559168

Assuming system time is somehow ok, this entry is from my first boot from the sd card. boot process never started kernel afterwards (that is my interpretation).
When mounting the sd card, I get this in my /var/log/messages:

FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

Maybe this is the problem during boot?

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ad ssh-ing the pinebook: It can't be pinged while 'booting'. So I think the problem occurs very early in the boot process.

I think the earliest boot logs are printed to the serial console only. Big mistake if you don't have one

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

(11-17-2019, 05:44 PM)kexkey Wrote:

(11-17-2019, 11:10 AM)vfr400racer Wrote: This is a bit different from the other 'cant boot from sd' threads, I think. It seems other people's boot problems have been solved by updating to mrfixit's os version V1.4. But I am on this version. 
So this is what happened:
I dd'd mrfixit's debian image to the SD card. Synced multiple times. When shutting down and trying to boot from SD card, it didn't came up. I waited about 10 minutes, but nothing happened. After booting from eMMC and inserting the SD card, I could see that the root file system has been expanded to 64G. So I guess it started booting from SD card , but got stuck at some point. Any ideas what might be the problem here?

Hi!  Got the same problem.  Here's what you have to do to make it work:

In the file extlinux/extlinux.conf (in the boot partition of the SD card), for PINEBOOKPRO, change this:

Code:

root=PARTUUID=deedbeef-02

...to the real PARTUUID of the root on the SD card.  If you want to know what the PARTUUID is, just use:

Code:

sudo blkid

...and look for /dev/mmcblk0p2

Let me know if that worked for you like it did for me!

Cheers!