sdcard installation

[LiohMoeller]

I am trying to install to a sdcard as described here: https://github.com/openwrt-zipit/openwrt-pxa-target/wiki/Installation
The same card worked, booting the flasher from a fat32 partition. Sadly it still always boot from the internal flash and there is not much storage left to install additional applications. I have even tried to apply the sdcard fix, without success.

Is there anything else I can try? Shouldn't the card be also visible in /proc/partitions or show up in dmesg while booting from the internal flash?

Is there anything I have to change in uboot to correct the boot order?

[deeice]

Yes, you should see something about the mmc in both dmesg and /proc/partitions. cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name ... 31 4 2112 mtdblock4 179 0 1927168 mmcblk0 179 1 1925730 mmcblk0p1 I see this in dmesg after the coprocessor line. [ 2.893207] XScale iWMMXt coprocessor detected. [ 2.914723] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable [ 2.956209] input: pxabus:gpio-keys as /devices/platform/pxabus/pxabus:gpio-keys/input/input1 [ 2.983266] mmc0: new SD card at address 1234 [ 3.002963] pxa-rtc 40900000.rtc: setting system clock to 2000-01-01 00:00:20 UTC (946684820) [ 3.034932] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SA02G 1.84 GiB [ 3.061286] mmcblk0: p1 [ 3.119161] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 179:1. [ 3.138208] Freeing unused kernel memory: 152K (c044c000 - c0472000) [ 4.491727] EXT2-fs (mmcblk0p1): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Does dmesg show anything if you insert the SD after booting from the internal Flash? I think you could stop it in uboot to check some things, but the zipit IRC logs are gone so it's hard to remember all the tricks. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[LiohMoeller]

This is what I see when I insert the card after booting from internal storage. It is a 64GB MicroSD card within a MiniSD Adapter.

[mozzwald]

I'm guessing the newer kernel supplied by openwrt doesn't work with the SD card you are using. This was a common issue; it works to flash the system but the newer kernel cannot access it. Your best option is to just find a card that works. Smaller cards tend to be more likely to work in my experience.

[deeice]

Hey Mozzwald! Is the old IRC still live? I got purged (prolly the owner finally noticed my "trump won" post or some other freedom of speech slip) so I had to abandon ship and slink over to libera. We discussed this a bit over there, but otherwise not much happening. You should pop in and pep it up. deeice

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