11-27-2020, 05:49 PM
(11-25-2020, 04:42 AM)n4tter4ngell Wrote: I'm booting Debian stable, based on the official debian unstable installer image. It does not include Rockchip binary blobs in u-boot. I roughly outlined my approach here.
Thanks for this idea, I gather that you're following this:
https://www.kulesz.me/post/140-debian-de...4-install/
I found your comment detailing the differences in your procedure:
http://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?t...1#pid82701
This looked promising, but fairly involved, so I decided to try your second option.
(11-25-2020, 04:42 AM)n4tter4ngell Wrote: You could also try the u-boot version made by sigmaris, which also is build from mainline u-boot (without Rockchip blobs). Read the first post he made, there are links to emmc/SD-card version you could try, so no need to flash SPI to test this out.
Thanks for the pointer to this, seems like sigmaris has been doing some great work. I used dd to install mmc_idbloader.img and mmc_u-boot.itb from https://github.com/sigmaris/u-boot/relea...ckpro64-ci to my sdcard. It was really nice to see output from the bootloader on the display, and my armbian/debian server image booted fine with this bootloader.
In less than 5 min memtester has already produced many errors. Since this test has eliminated the blob overwriting memory as a potential cause, I'll proceed with the RMA process.
Thanks for your help!