Hello,
is it possible to boot and run this device from other types of storage than the internal emmc storage? I mean like SD cards, USB SSD drives and so on.
Like Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, Khadas devices do…
Thank you
Debian system supports booting from SD card
Ok, thank you. How would one do this?
It’s not as easy as burning your img file to an SD card and plugging it into the device.
Do you have documentation for how to do this?
I’d very much be interested in knowing whether there is a U-Boot or other bootloader that allows for booting from a network, in the way x86 PCs boot using PXE. I’ve been looking for a dual ethernet board that can be used in this way.
Is there now, or is it planned to have Buildroot or Yocto support for this board?
Hello if you mean NFS ?
There are no plans to develop buildroot and Yocto for the time being.
If you have a need for bulk orders, we can develop them especially for you.
No, NFS is not the same thing. PXE allows the bootloader to download the kernel and root filesystem and device tree blobs from a tftp server at boot time. Very handy for easy upgrade to installations of many systems, or for doing kernel development where frequent reboots are necessary.
PXE emulation can be and frequently is built into U-boot binaries, but requires some one-time only configuration in the U-boot environment to get it set up.
Notice that the RK356X u-boot has commands with PXE.
To use it, please check our Debian source code.
The part about u-boot.
README.pxe and README.distro in the u-boot/doc/ directory
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This was never answered, and extremely infuriating. I need urgent instructions on how to boot from an SD card. Other developers have written convoluted instructions that involve flashing with config files then a wipe_part file, but the instructions are invalid.
I don’t want your polluted, poorly built out of date Debian images that use Chinese package sources. Please just give DIRECT instructions on how to empty the eMMC and boot from SD card.
Please check this link.
If the problem is still not resolved, please provide more details.
(For efficiency, please ask questions in the following format)
Hardware motherboard model:
Firmware name/system version:
Self-written or firmware download address:
Log: (can be exported and uploaded as a TXT attachment)
Problem description and reproduction steps:
from (Board Bring-up Youyeetoo YY3568 RockChip RK3568 - Rockchip - Armbian Community Forums):
Download RKDevTool and also download this small file wipe_part. We will be using that shortly.
Download the Clear_EMMC_YY3568
Unzip RKDevTool and run RKDevTool.exe
Set the Config for RKDevTool “RkDevToolConfig.cfg” that was inside " Clear_EMMC_YY3568"
Flash the U-boot, parameter.txt and MiniloaderAll from “Clear_EMMC_YY3568”
Your Board will restart.
Destroy All the partitions overrided by file wipe_part.
Flash this MiniLoaderAll.bin
it now boots from SD-Card
I did this successfully once, but the developer’s poorly written/plaigerized instructions cannot be followed.
Regardless, this board should boot from SD card. It’s the most frequently left comment on your forums, customers do NOT feel secure using your prebuilt images with Chinese market alterations (this violates every principle of computer security).
Every other manufacturer of these boards and chipset have a procedure to either boot the board with a button held down or instructions to zero the eMMC to allow the device to boot from SD card uninterrupted.
This is an urgent, necessary modification.
Hello, thank you for your feedback. I will submit this issue to the R&D team.
Have you resolved this issue?
No, I haven’t. With your (horrible) Debian image installed to the eMMC, the board will boot Armbian Noble from the SD card, but when a Debian Armbian build is used, the board goes into systemd-devd and drops into a shell and will not boot.
There have been repeated comments about your images not being suitable for customers’ use purposes. In this case I need a minimal Debian 11 build without a desktop environment or the preinstalled Chinese configurations that uses HDMI.
Can you provide a source for this?
We do not provide such an image.
You can find our source code on our WIKI for modification.
You also can rebuild a new rootfs.
Below is our tutorial for modifying the standard Ubuntu rootfs into our required system:
rockchip uboot + rockchip linux kernel + ubuntu-base
If you need to erase the eMMC, consider booting from an SD card first. Then use the “DD” command or perform the erase operation directly on the eMMC within the system.