Le Potato: Debian 12 and LibreELEC 12 mount storage problems

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I tried more official or unofficial images to run any system over Le Potato. Any time it seems to have some sort of memory/file system problem.

When I flashed debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img.xz

doas dd if=debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M

I can see autoboot booting up GRUB. When I stop it, it seem to read all USB devices correctly. Though, if I wait for GRUB to load, the moment I see the GRUB command-line, keyboard stops being handled completely.

The same result with 2023-10-10-raspbian-bookworm-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img.

I assume it’s due to the same file system check (storage mount) error as below, but please help me debug this from here. I don’t know uboot, and GRUB does not allow me to type anything because of the mentioned problem.

LibreELEC (LibreELEC-AMLGX.aarch64-12.0.1-lepotato.img), on the other hand, gives me access to busybox featured console boot-loader, and presents me with this error

*** Error in mount_storage: mount_common: Could not mount LABLE=STORAGE ***

Lakka and older versions of LibreELEC also return storage mount error.

I run fdisk and it reported two partitions on the sd card, which seems okay.

dmesg provides some more explanation

fsck: couldn't find matching filesystem: LABEL=STORAGE
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 258744
LABEL=STORAGE: Can't lookup blockdev

followed by several “unable to read id index table”.

ALSA and init, in dmesg, is as follows

ALSA device list:
  #0: LIBRETECH-CC
Freeing unused kernel memory: 8320K
Run /init as init process
  with arguments:
    /init
  with environment:
    HOME=/
    TERM=linux
    boot=LABEL=LIBREELEC
    disk=LABEL=STORAGE
Checking disk(s): LABEL=LIBREELEC LABEL=STORAGE
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Most likely your power supply.

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I try out a new one tomorrow. And what about the mount problems, is that also related to power or perhaps sd speed?

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The images are working for everyone. It’s either power or MicroSD card.

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The problem was the MicroSD card being too slow. Sorry, another post about the same thing. Thank you for your help.

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I have actually still some problems which seem to be power related. Lakka 5.0 can’t fine the wifi usb dongle and Lakka 4.2 (which is provided as direct link here on the forum) does not show any image at all.

Should not red light flash light if power is not sufficient? It’s static red, green is on and blue is blinking.

Edit:
Maybe I should create another thread for this problem?

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Update

I had some problem with one of my monitors. Other then that Le Potato is up and running!

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