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Subject: Re: IO Error writing to MMC BeagleBone Black
From: Jan Stary <hans () stare ! cz>
Date: 2021-10-22 12:47:26
Message-ID: YXKy3kcZ1UpFFssU () www ! stare ! cz
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On Mar 22 19:00:06, openbsd@sirjorj.com wrote:
> 6.6 was the last release that works. 6.7 and 6.8 throw an input/output error when \
> it tries to create the partitions (right after you choose ‘(W)hole disk').
> Am I the only person to try installing it to onboard storage in the last year?
This is just to confirm that 7.0 also reports an IO error
when trying to install to the onboard mmc of my BBB;
installing on a uSD card works fine.
Jan
> > On Mar 21, 2021, at 23:26, Jordon <openbsd@sirjorj.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just ran the installer for 5.7 and it had no problems writing to the emmc. \
> > Tomorrow after work i might try bisecting to see what the last functional version \
> > was, but it really looks like there was a regression at some point.
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 21, 2021, at 16:41, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > They do wear out, mine in my Pinebook Pro was about a year old when I
> > > was seeing strange crashes. Loaded up a brand new SD card and I get
> > > uptimes of a week or more. And refomatting a misbehaving sd or emmc
> > > sometimes works wonders for ueexplainable reasons, it's like it needs
> > > to be refreshed periodically..
> > >
> > > > > On 3/21/21, Jordon <openbsd@sirjorj.com> wrote:
> > > > The issue is not the sd card - it is the onboard emmc. I dd'ed the miniroot
> > > > image to a micro sd card. I the boot the bbb and run the installer. I set
> > > > the install drive to the onboard emmc drive and when it tries to write to
> > > > it, I get io errors. This used to work, as i had 5.6 on one of my bbb's and
> > > > 5.8 on another, both booting without micro sd cards in them.
> > > >
> > > > I have received messages that suggest that this never worked, but I know I
> > > > did this years ago following a post from tedu's website.
> > > >
> > > > And i did flash the debian ‘flasher' image to the micro sd card, booted it,
> > > > and had it run through its reimaging process, and afterwards the bbb booted
> > > > debian just fine, so the micro sd card and the emmc are both functional.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > On Mar 20, 2021, at 14:52, Alan Corey <alan01346@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > man mount, then type /read-only to search, / to search for the same
> > > > > thing
> > > > > again. Sometimes a read-only mount happens if thare's something wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > But reformat and try reloading before you throw it away.
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 3:30 PM Fred <openbsd@crowsons.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 3/20/21 1:28 PM, Jordon wrote:
> > > > > > > I recently decided to play with my BBB boards after ignoring them for a
> > > > > > few years (one of them still had 5.6 installed on it!). I have 3
> > > > > > BeagleBone Black boards (2 with 2GB, 1 with 4GB). When i dd'ed
> > > > > > miniroot-am335x-68.img to a uSD cards and booted it, it all seemed
> > > > > > pretty
> > > > > > normal until I got to the part where it actually writes to the onboard
> > > > > > storage. It would fail due to IO errors. This happened on all 3 of my
> > > > > > boards. I figured it was unlikely that all 3 would have bad flash so I
> > > > > > re-imaged one with with a supported debian distro and it worked just
> > > > > > fine.
> > > > > > > Is there an issue with writing to the onboard storage in 6.8 or is
> > > > > > > there
> > > > > > some step I missed in the startup phase to get it working?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > with my BBB[1] I've never used the onboard storage I just boot the uSD
> > > > > > with OpenBSD on. The output from fdisk is shown below [2].
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Fred
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [1]
> > > > > > bbb:fred ~> dmesg|head
> > > > > > OpenBSD 6.8 (GENERIC) #337: Wed Oct 7 01:35:49 MDT 2020
> > > > > > deraadt@armv7.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/armv7/compile/GENERIC
> > > > > > real mem = 477290496 (455MB)
> > > > > > avail mem = 457314304 (436MB)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [2]
> > > > > > bbb:fred ~> doas fdisk sd0
> > > > > > doas (fred@bbb.crowsons.com) password:
> > > > > > Disk: sd0 geometry: 233/255/63 [3751936 Sectors]
> > > > > > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
> > > > > > Starting Ending LBA Info:
> > > > > > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > >
> > > > > > *0: 0C 0 1 1 - 8 254 63 [ 63: 144522 ]
> > > > > > FAT32L
> > > > > > 1: 83 9 0 1 - 232 254 63 [ 144585: 3598560 ]
> > > > > > Linux files*
> > > > > > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
> > > > > > unused
> > > > > > 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
> > > > > > unused
> > > > > > bbb:fred ~> doas fdisk sd1
> > > > > > Disk: sd1 geometry: 966/255/63 [15523840 Sectors]
> > > > > > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
> > > > > > Starting Ending LBA Info:
> > > > > > #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > >
> > > > > > *0: 0C 0 32 33 - 2 42 40 [ 2048: 32768 ]
> > > > > > FAT32L
> > > > > > 1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
> > > > > > unused
> > > > > > 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ]
> > > > > > unused
> > > > > > 3: A6 2 42 41 - 966 80 10 [ 34816: 15489024 ]
> > > > > > OpenBSD
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > -------------
> > > Education is contagious.
>
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