PinePhone Beta Edition will not boot from MicroSD card
05-06-2021, 11:33 AM
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.
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.
Code:
U-Boot SPL 2020.10-3 (Dec 03 2020 - 06:43:18 +0000)
DRAM: 2048 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 ###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.