Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC EMMC boot

sadoyan · August 22, 2023, 5:10pm

Hi,

Recently I’ve purchased [Libre Computer AML-S905X-CC ], and 32gb libre computer emmc drive.
I wrote the latest libre Raspbian to sdcard, copied Raspbian, Ubuntu and Debian 12 images for my device to sdcard and booted it. Then I login to os running on sdcard and used dd command to flush the emmc.
I’ve tried all tree images . Flush was successful, no errors, but now I’m not able to boot from emmc with none of mentioned images.
Emmc is mounted correctly and I can see it from os booted from sdcard, but boot from emmc is not working. It freeze, not even open display and red and blue lights are on, just as with booting from sdcard, but the screen is not opening and the the os is not booting.

Please advise what to do.
Thanks,
Ara

librecomputer · August 22, 2023, 10:01pm

What is the exact command you used?

sadoyan · August 23, 2023, 6:32am

Hello,

Here are the exact commands that I’ve executed.

dd if=2023-05-03-raspbian-bullseye-arm64-lite+aml-s905x-cc.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 ms=1M count=128

dd if=debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M count=128

dd if=ubuntu-22.04.2-preinstalled-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M count=256 status=progress

I did this from the inside of 2023-05-03-raspbian-bullseye-arm64 installed on sdcard.

I’ve also tried without bs=1M, results were the same .

Thanks.
Ara

librecomputer · August 23, 2023, 2:55pm

dd if=2023-05-03-raspbian-bullseye-arm64-lite+aml-s905x-cc.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress

Missed bs=1M.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M count=128

You know that you’re wiping the image with this command right? If you ran this after the previous command, you are wiping off the first 128MB of the image that you just wrote.

Please read and and follow the instructions carefully.

sadoyan · August 23, 2023, 4:19pm

I run the wipe after rebooting.
So the sequence was.

dd write image .
Reboot.
2.1 Reboot fails
2.2 Remove emmc
2.3 Boot to os in sdcard.
Wipe the disk .
Try another image.

After writing the image I immediately do reboot and try to boot from emmc.
When it fails u wipe out the disk and try another image.

librecomputer · August 23, 2023, 4:57pm

You missed the bs=1M. Without it, flashing will not work.

Also, please provide the full output of the commands.

Did you extract the images?

sadoyan · August 24, 2023, 7:45am

First I’ve cleabed out the emmc card :
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 count=128 status=progress
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
65536 bytes (66 kB, 64 KiB) copied, 0.00890138 s, 7.4 MB/s

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M count=128 status=progress
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
134217728 bytes (134 MB, 128 MiB) copied, 2.39457 s, 56.1 MB/s

reboot

dd if=debian-12-base-arm64+aml-s905x-cc.img bs=1M of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress
1865416704 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.7 GiB) copied, 24 s, 77.6 MB/s
1792+0 records in
1792+0 records out
1879048192 bytes (1.9 GB, 1.8 GiB) copied, 28.96 s, 64.9 MB/s

reboot

The same , OS is not booting .

Yes of course I’ve extracted image using xz utility.

librecomputer · August 24, 2023, 2:51pm

A picture of your board and eMMC module?

When you boot with the eMMC attached, does it boot off the MicroSD card?

sadoyan · August 25, 2023, 8:22am

I’ve tried to boot via emmc with both attached and removed sdcard. The result is the same: it is not booting and not even opening the screen.

I’m new user so cant upload more than one image , so please download images from my server.
https://netangels.net/utils/s905x.zip

librecomputer · August 25, 2023, 5:04pm

Everything looks right with the picture.

Copy and paste the full dmesg log after you run the dd command.

sadoyan · August 25, 2023, 10:08pm

There was only one line in dmesg after flushing the image .

[ 179.838331] rc rc1: two consecutive events of type space

sadoyan · August 25, 2023, 10:09pm

[ 13.585079] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 179.838331] rc rc1: two consecutive events of type space

Just in case s previous line as well.

librecomputer · August 25, 2023, 10:56pm

Copy and paste the full log into a pastebin and post the link.

sadoyan · August 26, 2023, 10:25am

Here is the fill dmesg log after running dd

librecomputer · August 26, 2023, 5:59pm

You have a damaged pin on your eMMC module. Take a picture of both the board connector and the module connector. Your previous image of the module connector is not very clear.

[ 3.412348] mmc0: switch to bus width 8 failed

sadoyan · August 28, 2023, 7:00am

Please see attached. As for me it looks good.

sadoyan · August 28, 2023, 7:01am

Just in case a close picture of rear side of device.

Miles_Raymond · April 10, 2024, 7:32am

Since you are booting Raspbian from uSD, what happens when you use the Raspberry Flasher GUI app?

After writing, it should look like this:

2024-04-10 00:31:41 root@lepotato:~# lsblk -o +label,fstype,uuid
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS      LABEL  FSTYPE UUID
mmcblk0      179:0    0 116.5G  0 disk                                
├─mmcblk0p1  179:1    0   256M  0 part /media/pi/bootfs bootfs vfat   35DE-9C73
└─mmcblk0p2  179:2    0 116.2G  0 part /media/pi/rootfs rootfs btrfs  e57d1fe0-6df4-4b8c-90fe-0ae3245d2fd6
mmcblk0boot0 179:32   0     4M  1 disk                                
mmcblk0boot1 179:64   0     4M  1 disk                                
mmcblk1      179:96   0 119.3G  0 disk                                
├─mmcblk1p1  179:97   0   512M  0 part /boot/efi        bootfs vfat   1E1E-DAB6
└─mmcblk1p2  179:98   0 118.7G  0 part /                rootfs btrfs  283cfb79-a50f-43ab-bc96-42f866f8d541
zram0        251:0    0   3.8G  0 disk [SWAP]                         
2024-04-10 00:31:46 root@lepotato:~#

Be sure to echo "boot_targets=usb mmc1 mmc0" > /media/pi/bootfs/boot.ini before rebooting so you can always boot from uSD in the future without removing the eMMC.