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Fresh Odroid N2+ installation fails #3150

Closed BarBaar44 closed 9 months ago

BarBaar44 commented 9 months ago

Describe the issue you are experiencing

Hardware

New hardware:

Old Hardware:

Issue

Fresh installation of haos 11.5 fails with a blank screen and no further system action

What operating system image do you use?

odroid-c2 (Hardkernel ODROID-C2)

What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?

n.a.

Did you upgrade the Operating System.

No

Steps to reproduce the issue

  1. Download haos 11.5 image
  2. Follow installation instructions on https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/odroid/
  3. boot system
  4. Blank screen, no blue heartbeat

Second scenario is upgrading to haos 11.5 from existing install. Leads to same situation. See below for details and steps taken ...

Anything in the Supervisor logs that might be useful for us?

Blank screen... no logs...

Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?

Reminds me of this one I had a while ago...

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/1142

System information

No response

Additional information

  1. First installed the latest image Odroid N2+ image, version 11.4. Copied to the eMMC as described on this page. Installed the eMMC on the board and powered up. No action. Red light on the board is on, blue stays off (no heartbeat). Blank screen, no messages or anything. The system just doesn't boot.
  2. Version 11.5 became available. Tried this version, but the same result as before. No luck
  3. Tried installing using the Flashing Guide. The same result for both the 11.4 and 11.5 versions of the image.
  4. Doubting if there is a hardware issue. Downloaded an Ubuntu image from the Odroid website and installed it. Worked flawlessly.
  5. Tried copying the image (version 11.5) to the eMMC using dd: dd if=<image> of=<disk> bs=4M Same result. So ruled out hardware issues and Etcher issues.

Working with dd from now on..

  1. Zeroing the disk: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disc bs=4M
  2. Tried image version 10.5. Same result.
  3. Tried version 8.0 of the image. Finally! The system booted! But... a failure during setup of the system. But, foremost happy I finally had HA booting on the hardware.
  4. Tried version 9.5 of the image. YES! fully working system and finally possible to connect to HA using the website (http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8123)
  5. Restoring image from the Old Hardware (see above). Long wait, but did work.
  6. Working HA environment that needs to be updated to Home Assistant Operating System 11.5. Applied to update, and.... system no longer boots. Back at the initial situation with a blank screen without any messages. The red light on the board is on but no heartbeat.

Trying again:

  1. Installing version 10.0 of the image. Fail
  2. Installing version 9.5 of the image. Fail ... What?
  3. zeroing the disk 4 Installing version 10.0 of the image.. boot!
  4. Appears to be stuck in "waiting for the Home Assistant cli to be ready". Power cycle..
  5. No boot, no blue light. Copying a fresh 10.0 image back to the eMMC
  6. Boot! And web interface is ready in very little time.
  7. Restoring backup
  8. Updating to haos 11.5 using buildin HA-update functionality
  9. reboot.. blank screen and no heartbeat...
  10. giving up for now...

One day later...

  1. zeroed the disk
  2. Installed haos v10.0, worked and running system
  3. restored a previous backup
  4. reboot... dead..

Also managed to boot using haos 10.5. But after the initial boot, a reboot fails. Seems I am stuck here as I haven't found an image yet that allows the system to reboot..

sairon commented 9 months ago

Since the behavior you describe is rather erratic, my guess is that the eMMC card/module is somehow damaged. The other, less likely scenario, is that something wrong is with your ODROID itself. ODROID N2+ has an SD card slot as well, could you try copying the system image to that and try again?

BarBaar44 commented 9 months ago

Ok...

Using a 64HB Samsung SD:

  1. updated Petitboot (a couple of days ago already); pb_update
  2. Copied the 11.5 image to the SSD using Etcher (running on Windows)
  3. Switched the Odroid to SPI-boot
  4. Inserted the SSD and power-on the Oidroid
  5. Booting to Petitboot, but stuck there: "Processing new Disk Device".

Repeated with a different SD-card -> Same result Repeated with a different image (non HA): works

Used a different converter (USB to SD) to copy the image to the SD-card (64Gb one) --> Stuck at "Processing new Disk Device" (same as (5)).

To summarize:

--> I noticed I am missing a boot.ini in the image. See here. Not the expert, but just noticed this.

I have no indications there is a hardware problem:

But I do run out of options to try and get it to work :/

sairon commented 9 months ago

Switched the Odroid to SPI-boot

That is wrong. HAOS on N2 does not use Petitboot but U-Boot in the first partition of the SD card/eMMC, so the boot switch should be set to MMC no matter whether you're booting from an eMMC or SD card. See the diagram in ODROID wiki. That also answers why there's no boot.ini.

BarBaar44 commented 9 months ago

Tnx..

The system seems to be working with the SD-Card. Guess the eMMc is bad. Weird as it is a new one.

Closing this one. Thnx for your support @sairon

piercy commented 7 months ago

@sairon I dont think this is an issue with this guys MMC port, theres 2 more issues raised with a bug to do with N2+ not booting.

see:

3227 Odroid-N2+ Does Not Boot With 11.5 or 12.0

3250 HAOS 12.1 doesn't work on odroid n2+

agners commented 7 months ago

@piercy thanks for connecting these issues, I agree this seems all to be related. Let's track it in #3227 as this seems to be the issue with most information at this point.