How to boot OOWOW on VIM3L from SD card?

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Which system do you use? Android, Ubuntu, OOWOW or others?

I downloaded OOWOW latest SD image and dd it to a microSD card and inserted it into vim3l.

The eMMC of vim3l has Ubuntu 22.04 which can boot normally, But I would like try OOWOW and see if it can help me install Armbian on to SD.

But I can’t boot into OOWOW, even if I tried the buttons per this page, the device always boot to Ubuntu 22.04 on eMMC.

Which version of system do you use? Please provide the version of the system here:

Ubuntu 22.04 on eMMC, OOWOW latest on SD card.

Please describe your issue below:

I can’t boot into OOWOW on SD card.

Post a console log of your issue below:

There is no log as I can’t enter OOWOW at all.

2

Hello @yfliu2008

Could you provide the below information to us?

cat /etc/fenix-release 
cat /etc/lsb-release 
uname -a
3

Information from Ubuntu on eMMC:

$ uname -a
Linux Khadas 5.15.137 #1.7.3 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 29 10:19:15 UTC 2024 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/fenix-release
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=VIM3L
VENDOR=Amlogic
VERSION=1.7.3
ARCH=arm64
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
INSTALL_TYPE=EMMC
IMAGE_VERSION=1.7.3-241129
################ GIT VERSION ################
UBOOT_GIT_VERSION=khadas-vims-u-boot-2015.01-5.15-v1.7.3-release
LINUX_GIT_VERSION=khadas-vims-linux-5.15-v1.7.3-release
FENIX_GIT_VERSION=v1.7.3
#############################################
$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jammy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS"

How does the version of Ubuntu on eMMC releate to OOWOW on SD card?

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Hello @yfliu2008

What issues you have ?

I checked install Ubuntu vim3l-ubuntu-24.04-gnome-linux-5.15-fenix-1.7.3-241129-emmc.img in the eMMC and flash oowow vim3l-oowow-241112.000-sd.img to SD card, and insert the SD card to VIM3L and reboot, it boot to oowow without issues.

Please setup the serial debug tool and provide the full boot log.

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Did you mean just insert SD card and reboot via power on? I did the same herre but each time Ubuntu on eMMC boots.

Did you have any operations to boot from the OOWOW SD card? It feels like my Vim3L prefers eMMC to the SD card?