Re: Orange Pi Lite Installation Woes

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

I think you will have better luck with NetBSD 9 on that board:

http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/evbarm-earmv7hf/binary/gzimg/armv7.img.gz


On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, marco valdez wrote:

> Hello,
> I've been trying to install NetBSD onto an SD card destined for an Orange Pi Lite (Allwinner H3). 
>
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/
>
> These are the steps I have done, referring to this page: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/
>
> 1. Downloaded armv7.img from http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.1/evbarm-earmv7hf/
> 2. dd if=armv7.img of=/dev/disk4 bs=1m conv=sync 
> 3. dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/disk4 bs=1k seek=8 conv=sync
> 4. 
>
> Output of TTY is below.
> How do I fix this? The Orange Pi Lite is officially supported apparently.
>
> I hooked up my orange pi lite to a USB TTY and this is what I get as output:
>
>
> U-Boot SPL 2018.11 (Nov 29 2019 - 02:59:40 +0000)
>
> DRAM: 512 MiB
>
> Trying to boot from MMC1
>
>
>
> U-Boot 2018.11nb4 (Nov 29 2019 - 02:59:40 +0000) Allwinner Technology
>
>
> CPU:   Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680)
>
> Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Lite
>
> DRAM:  512 MiB
>
> MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
>
> Loading Environment from FAT... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
>
>
> In:    serial
>
> Out:   serial
>
> Err:   serial
>
> Net:   No ethernet found.
>
> starting USB...
>
> USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
>
> USB1:   USB OHCI 1.0
>
> USB2:   USB EHCI 1.00
>
> USB3:   USB OHCI 1.0
>
> scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>
> scanning bus 2 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
>
>        scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) 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.scr
>
> 249 bytes read in 1 ms (243.2 KiB/s)
>
> ## Executing script at 43100000
>
> MMC Device 1 not found
>
> MMC Device 1 not found
>
> libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
>
> Wrong Image Format for bootm command
>
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
>
> SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
>
> 15198 bytes read in 3 ms (4.8 MiB/s)
>
>
> Device 0: device type unknown
>
> ... is now current device
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: pxeuuid
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/00000000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/0000000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/000000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/00000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/0000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/000
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/00
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/0
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default-arm-sunxi
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default-arm
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> missing environment variable: bootfile
>
> Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/default
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> Config file not found
>
> No ethernet found.
>
> No ethernet found.
>
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