NanoPi R5S - Boot from NVMe

General Discussion
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:smiley:
@MichaIng: You are awesome !
@Joulinar: It’s working headless perfectly finally !
I’m sure it would help to have this incorporated in dietpi-install script, and/or have this properly documented somewhere on Nanopi R5S download/install page, but’s working and the solution is so simple at the end.
Thank you so much for the time you spent supporting me! Long live to dietpi !

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 DietPi v9.8.0 : 09:40 - Sat 10/19/24
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 - Device model : NanoPi R5S/R5C (aarch64)
 - CPU temp : 38 °C / 100 °F : Cool runnings
 - LAN IP : 192.168.1.39 (eth2)
 - MOTD : DietPi v9.8 is here. Check out all changes:
          https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_8/
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 dietpi-launcher : All the DietPi programs in one place
 dietpi-config   : Feature rich configuration tool for your device
 dietpi-software : Select optimised software for installation
 htop            : Resource monitor
 cpu             : Shows CPU information and stats

root@DietPi:~# lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mmcblk1      179:0    0  14.6G  0 disk 
└─mmcblk1p1  179:1    0  14.4G  0 part 
mmcblk1boot0 179:32   0     4M  1 disk 
mmcblk1boot1 179:64   0     4M  1 disk 
nvme0n1      259:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
└─nvme0n1p1  259:1    0 465.7G  0 part /
root@DietPi:~#
44

Great. My idea in general it to provide bootloader-only images for all SBCs, or at least all without SPI flash. So they can be flashed to an SD card or eMMC to boot images on USB or NVMe.

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yes I can confirm this, not sure if this is the NVMe? At least mine stays at CPU temp : 44 °C / 111 °F and case feels quite warm.

46

Hmm, the “legacy” kernel is still in the repository, can you test whether it is the same with it?

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sure, can you share command to switch kernel to legacy?

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apt install linux-{image,dtb}-legacy-rk35xx
49

you are sure it’s still there?

root@DietPi:~# apt install linux-{image,dtb}-legacy-rk35xx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-image-legacy-rk35xx
E: Unable to locate package linux-dtb-legacy-rk35xx
root@DietPi:~#
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Nope. I tested without NVMe and it is still warm.