It’s very long time and Krescue image dump on dl.khadas.com is having all very old images.
I would appreciate if khadas team gives it some cleaning / organizing and updates to Ubuntu /manjaro /coreelec /Debian etc images for mainline specially.
I know everything is present in Fenix but Fenix requires a x86 build host (github doesn’t build properly sometimes) and downloading from github is also very very slow. I think many people will appreciate a clean and updated Krescue image list… If it takes too much effort, than no problem, we understand it’s a large task. Thanks again in advance…
Hi all, it’s been a long time and i hope everyone is healthy enough,
@hyphop
please remind me of the best way using krascue and the lowest number of steps for transforming a brand new android based vim3L into a debian buster server booting directly from its emmc ?
Can the method be used if I only can connect to internet via wifi and not ethernet ?
As i wanted to boot on kresc flashed to my sd card, i interupted boot sequence in my serial console and typed ‘store init 3’ and then ‘reset’
but what i get in only this message on screen
LOOP:1;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;SD?:0;SD:0;READ:2;USB:8;LOOP:2;EM;
It seems that my only option is to use the amlogic flashing tool to repopulate the emmc, according to VIM3 can't power on - #3 by ru719iz283 after using some chinese to english translator
Ok, I managed to install and boot VIM3L_Debian-server-buster_Linux-5.9-rc2_arm64_SD-USB_V0.9.3-200907 in EMMC, but number of steps is way too much to my taste!
After emmc wipe, I needed to…
– flash a mainline uboot into emmc using flash tool CLI from a linux host, then
– plug my krecue SD card and reset the vim3L to boot krescue,
– connect some usb keyboard and hdmi monitor to get control of it, then
– configured the access to my wifi network from the hdmi gui, then choose and installed the Debian-server-buster listed by krescue, after that
– reboot the board without the sdcard and voilà !
Last step was to connect it again to the wifi network, and i did it with nmcli from the serial console screen; Now all is fine.
no need wip emmc (only in special cases like uboot broken - or some boot loops fails ) just start your bottable krescue from sd (must be bootable for this board if u need whole start from SD)
I think my issue was having a legacy uboot (or whatever the board came with) in the EMMC and wanting to boot from a SD flashed with krescue : it just did not happen ! maybe because uboot on the krescue SD was mainline and not legacy ??
When I wanted to turn the vim3L into upgrade mode : I could see some weird android recovery mode on the hdmi screen and did not beleive I could use the flashing tool to write a mainline uboot image in the emmc
@hyphop, latest Krescue still has the bug regarding downloading images which stops around 50-55%, no matter what settings options from Krescue I tried. That happens with all desktop images over 700MB size or higher, small images such as CoreElec or Ubuntu Focal Server 5.12(previous Krescue) which BTW has been removed and I don’t understand the reason for this?, those small ones can be fully downloaded and install from Krescue without issues.