03-18-2018, 08:57 PM
(03-18-2018, 08:39 PM)Mentaluproar Wrote: When I tried flashing the latest release OpenMediaVault 64bit image to emmc, I got a never ending stream of sector errors. It stopped when I put in an sd card and tried booting again. Later, I connected my external hard drives and UPS. The thing kept redecting all USB devices over and over, and never completing a boot.
I tried booting off microSD withthe Sd to eMMC image, and the first time, it loaded and couldn't complete the dd. I rebooted and did it again, without disconnecting power and this time it worked, but rebooted to the above issues again.
Is the rock64 board still not ready for prime time yet? Do I have a bad eMMC? What is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Ah, but is that the African or European swallow... that is the question!
So, some more detail is needed in order to start working out what is going on. How are you powering the rock64? If via the power adapter and barrel jack, make sure it is plugged in properly... I noticed in another thread someone commented that they had issues and unplugged the connector and plugged in back in... probably wasn't plugged in firmly the first time...
Which image are you actually using? And how are you writing it? Are you using the pine64 installer? Or are you downloading from https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/releases and using Etcher, dd, etc? If it's the pine64 installer method, I can't comment as to robustness /validity of the image as I haven't used those images of late.
As far as is it ready for prime time... for general SBC usage, then yes, it is ready for a lot of stuff... I have just recently spun one of my rock64s back up again and am running things like nextcloud and plex server via docker without any issues at all other than ones caused by the PBKAC...
Probably worth testing the eMMC to ensure there isn't an issue with it also... not sure of the best method... maybe reformatting and partitioning it so it is just single partition, and then running f3 across it? https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ There is probably some sort of bulk read and write that can be done with dd or some other tool, but don't know it off the top of my head.