PinePhone Beta Edition will not boot from MicroSD card
05-08-2021, 08:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2021, 09:11 AM by Timothy_Ecc.)
(05-06-2021, 11:33 AM)8bit Wrote: Good and bad news. I can reproduce your error.
I was playing with the microSD extension cable https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-mic...46c16e2e66
It worked fine but after removing it and booting from eMMC my data SD card was not mounting at boot. If I did a 'sudo mount -a' it would mount. If I slid it out and back in it would mount.
I then tried a SD card with an OS on it. I get the same error you do over the serial console.
The microSD extender damaged the pins in some way. The upside is that using the microSD extender I can boot off a SD card. So it must have bent the pins too flat or something. It is a tight fit.
I am going to do some more testing on the data SD card without the extender. To see if it is reliable or if the connection is intermittent and I will have to leave the extender attached for it to work reliably.
Very Interesting. I just tried one of the microSD extenders and my PinePhone boots straight to the eMMC without even trying to boot from the MicroSD card in the extender. From the sounds of what you found my PinePhone must have come with a damaged MicroSD card slot for some reason.
Just realized I was inserting the MicroSD card into the extender improperly. I get the same failure to boot using the extender as I do with the card in the normal slot.
Code:
U-Boot SPL 2020.07-rc4-11.2 (Jan 31 2021 - 14:19:48 +0000)
DRAM: 3072 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1
MMC: no card present
spl: mmc init failed with error: -123
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###