How to boot Manjaro from NVME with uboot on eMMC

[clover]

Although following this tutorial was successful and I moved my emmc manjaro image root to nvme, at this time my SD card will not boot.

[tophneal]

So pcm's command dd if=spiflash.bin of=/dev/mtd0 didn't work for you?

[as400]

Although following this tutorial was successful and I moved my emmc manjaro image root to nvme, at this time my SD card will not boot.

What OS do you have on SD ? Can you try manjaro ?

If it doesn't boot try this on SD card:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k seek=1 count=1 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=128 count=64 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=192 count=64 of=<microSD>

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So pcm's command dd if=spiflash.bin of=/dev/mtd0 didn't work for you?

I know there are people who succeeded. For me it didn't work.
Had to use rkdeveloptool. Which is not big deal actually.

[mamboman777]

@mamboman777 I have no problems booting from sd card whatsoever with this uboot.

@tophneal this package was offered once by Manjaro team. Patches are by @pcm720. So all credits go to them. Sd card has priority on boot.

What troubleshooting steps could I take to get boot from SD working?

[as400]

What troubleshooting steps could I take to get boot from SD working?

Try destroying uboot on your sd:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k seek=1 count=1 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=128 count=64 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=192 count=64 of=<microSD>

[mamboman777]

What troubleshooting steps could I take to get boot from SD working?

Try destroying uboot on your sd:

Code:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=32k seek=1 count=1 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=128 count=64 of=<microSD>
dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k seek=192 count=64 of=<microSD>

I attempted, but I do not know if I entered "microSD"  correctly.  I'm sorry for such a noob question, but could you please tell me how to find out what to put in "<microSD>"?

[as400]

Try lsblk command.
In the output you should have mmcblk1 and mmcblk2.
Identify your sd card by capacity and the device you are looking for will be /dev/mmcblk1 or /dev/mmcblk2.
Do not destroy uboot on eMMc it will be one of the mmcblk devices.

[mamboman777]

Try lsblk command.
In the output you should have mmcblk1 and mmcblk2.
Identify your sd card by capacity and the device you are looking for will be /dev/mmcblk1 or /dev/mmcblk2.
Do not destroy uboot on eMMc it will be one of the mmcblk devices.

Thank you for your help.  I want to make sure I don't mess up the eMMC.  Here's the output of lsblk.  Can you please tell me which device I should use? 

Thanks again!

Code:

NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk2      179:0    0  58.2G  0 disk
└─mmcblk2p1  179:1    0  58.2G  0 part
mmcblk2boot0 179:32   0     4M  1 disk
mmcblk2boot1 179:64   0     4M  1 disk
mmcblk1      179:96   0 119.1G  0 disk
├─mmcblk1p1  179:97   0     2G  0 part
├─mmcblk1p2  179:98   0    16M  0 part
├─mmcblk1p3  179:99   0     2G  0 part
├─mmcblk1p4  179:100  0    16M  0 part
├─mmcblk1p5  179:101  0     2M  0 part
├─mmcblk1p6  179:102  0   512B  0 part
├─mmcblk1p7  179:103  0   512B  0 part
├─mmcblk1p8  179:104  0    16M  0 part
├─mmcblk1p9  179:105  0   512B  0 part
├─mmcblk1p10 179:106  0   512B  0 part
├─mmcblk1p11 179:107  0     8M  0 part
└─mmcblk1p12 179:108  0    32M  0 part
nvme0n1      259:0    0 953.9G  0 disk
└─nvme0n1p1  259:1    0 953.9G  0 part /mnt

[as400]

No problem

Use /dev/mmcblk1

[mamboman777]

No problem

Use /dev/mmcblk1

Good news: I successfully completed the commands listed and I didn't mess up my eMMC.  Bad news...I was not able to boot from the SD card.  Any other ideas?