OpenELEC build for OPi PC with support for TV/DVB tuners

cbm80 · Published in 2016-2-25 21:29:12

I had the same problem with 8GB SD card which I described here:
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepi ... &extra=page%3D1
It's something wrong with OpenELEC distros because other OSes work from this card without any issues.

jernej · Published in 2016-2-26 05:36:09

cbm80 replied at 2016-2-25 14:29
I had the same problem with 8GB SD card which I described here:
http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbse ...

Armbian has pull request to fix this. I will also add this fix and then you can build an image and try. Because it is about bootloader, you will have to write complete image. I will later fix update script so full updates will be possible via OpenELEC.

pmos69 · Published in 2016-2-26 05:53:58

Edited by pmos69 at 2016-2-26 06:16

jernej replied at 2016-2-26 05:36
Armbian has pull request to fix this. I will also add this fix and then you can build an image and ...

I think igor commited already...

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/ ... 7e998afe7bdac0a2f45

I'm rebuilding my armbian image and will test it on one of my crappy 8GB sdcards.

jernej · Published in 2016-2-26 06:15:59

pmos69 replied at 2016-2-25 22:53
I think igor commited already...

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/ ... 7e998afe7bdac0a2f45

Thanks, really appreciated. I will wait on your report, then.

pmos69 · Published in 2016-2-26 09:18:14

jernej replied at 2016-2-26 06:15
Thanks, really appreciated. I will wait on your report, then.

Just tried it. Didn't solve the problem.
For some reason, it can never read the partition table.

U-Boot 2016.03-rc2-armbian (Feb 25 2016 - 22:15:28 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I)
I2C: ready
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: No ethernet found.
starting USB...
No controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
2051 bytes read in 485 ms (3.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
0 bytes read in 365 ms (0 Bytes/s)
12927 bytes read in 1243 ms (9.8 KiB/s)
** ext4fs_devread read error - block
** Can't read partition table on 0:0 **
** Invalid partition 1 **
** Can't read partition table on 0:0 **
** Invalid partition 1 **
Kernel image @ 0x46000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x49a760 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 49000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x49000000
Using Device Tree in place at 49000000, end 4900627e
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux...

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...and it freezes here.

Compared to the same image copied to a 32GB sdcard:

U-Boot 2016.03-rc2-armbian (Feb 25 2016 - 22:15:28 +0000) Allwinner Technology
CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I)
I2C: ready
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: No ethernet found.
starting USB...
No controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
2051 bytes read in 343 ms (4.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 43100000
0 bytes read in 262 ms (0 Bytes/s)
12927 bytes read in 862 ms (13.7 KiB/s)
4826976 bytes read in 5258 ms (896.5 KiB/s)
Kernel image @ 0x46000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x49a760 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 49000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x49000000
Using Device Tree in place at 49000000, end 4900627e
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
Debian GNU/Linux 8 orangepih3 ttyS0
orangepih3 login:

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chaszim · Published in 2016-3-2 01:48:35

Edited by chaszim at 2016-3-2 01:50

jernej replied at 2016-2-26 05:36
Armbian has pull request to fix this. I will also add this fix and then you can build an image and ...

Thanks for this information. I knew there had to be something a miss with the image, when it failed to properly load.
And that given, I re-testing by loading all prior images, which loaded without issue, to the same old SD card.
Which should still have several thousand R/W cycles left, to it's life.
So, why is it that everybody so quick to pass judgment, on the SD card, and not the image, as where a fault lies?

jernej · Published in 2016-3-2 01:54:34

chaszim replied at 2016-3-1 18:48
Thanks for this information. I knew there had to be something a miss with the image, when it failed ...

It's common opinion that OrangePis are picky which SD card you use. So technically it's not SD card fault but driver/HW related. However, I'm not sure if this is true or not.

cbm80 · Published in 2016-3-2 02:39:29

It is not related to Orange Pi because from such card other systems start without any issues. It is only related to buggy OpenELEC booting process.

jernej · Published in 2016-3-2 02:49:12

Ok, probably it has to do something with mainline U-Boot. Once I was using Allwinner version of U-Boot but there is no chance I will go back. Too much problems with compiling (compiler complaints and binary blobs).

chaszim · Published in 2016-3-2 04:57:55

Well that sets me at ease. This IS the reason I chose, Kingston and Sandisk, as the SD of choice to use on my OPI's.
I tried a generic card on OpenELEC, which it too failed. However, was able to load Ubuntu on it, and it worked.
I will give the generics another try, on newer images, but, only after loading up one of the known quality cards first.