06-01-2018, 05:48 AM
Hi,
I am having problems with ayufan's distros from git hub. trying to write the sd card with my Linux Mint system, which has always written successfully hundreds of times in the past.
1. Git hub appears crippled, keeps dropping d/l transfer, I installed a Linux file downloader and have to keep restarting, but still takes forever to get a complete download.
2. After writing bionic minimal .img to a fresh fat32 formatted SD card , I can mount the boot partition on my Linux Mint pc, and look at the files, HOWEVER the root-fs partition is formatted to ext4, and for some reason will not mount.
If look at the card with gparted it looks like the partitioning is most unusual, if not incorrect.
I see 5 unknown partitions about 3-4 MiB in length, The first unknown is at block 64.
then partition 6 the Boot partition, fat16, 112Mib, starting at 32768
partition 7 is the linux-root partion formatted to ext4 2GiB in size starting at 262144
I have tried a dozen good sd cards and linux dd, etcher and Mint usb stick writer, all of which normally work
When trying to boot the rockpro board, I see a second or so of leds flashing in the ethernet connector but nothing else happens.
I have tried bionic minimal and bionic lxde, same problem DEFINITELY writing the distro for the rockpro!
any advice gratefully received
Patrick
I am having problems with ayufan's distros from git hub. trying to write the sd card with my Linux Mint system, which has always written successfully hundreds of times in the past.
1. Git hub appears crippled, keeps dropping d/l transfer, I installed a Linux file downloader and have to keep restarting, but still takes forever to get a complete download.
2. After writing bionic minimal .img to a fresh fat32 formatted SD card , I can mount the boot partition on my Linux Mint pc, and look at the files, HOWEVER the root-fs partition is formatted to ext4, and for some reason will not mount.
If look at the card with gparted it looks like the partitioning is most unusual, if not incorrect.
I see 5 unknown partitions about 3-4 MiB in length, The first unknown is at block 64.
then partition 6 the Boot partition, fat16, 112Mib, starting at 32768
partition 7 is the linux-root partion formatted to ext4 2GiB in size starting at 262144
I have tried a dozen good sd cards and linux dd, etcher and Mint usb stick writer, all of which normally work
When trying to boot the rockpro board, I see a second or so of leds flashing in the ethernet connector but nothing else happens.
I have tried bionic minimal and bionic lxde, same problem DEFINITELY writing the distro for the rockpro!
any advice gratefully received
Patrick
