My first post here to share a problem, but first I want to thanks all dev team for this wonderfull distro that I use on my odroid HC1 since a while now.
I found my old odroid C1 and wanted to install Dietpi on it. But there’s a problem with images. After flashing with Balena there’s a ext4 partition on it (system) and that’s it, no boot partition . I try STrech and Buster, same result (see attach screenshot)
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So If you can, it will be great to recompile the odroid C1 image with the boot partition.
Thanks dev for all their work!
The Odroid C1 image is based on Armbian, hence it is a single partition image. /boot is located as well on the ext4 partition. I know the downside is that it cannot easily be pre-configured on a Windows machine .
Thanks for your reply. I try ARMbian image too and try to change config on an ubuntu desktop, but nothing hapen.
In fact when I power up the odroid C1 the “Alive” led is still ON and the devicee won’t appear on my network, with other distro (Official minimal ubuntu) this led is blinking and the device is reachable via ssh. I’m on it now and it’s working.
-Dietpi Jessie, fresh flash, ethernet wired, power on. on 4gb sd card and 32gb (uhs)
Led status, blink (like heart pulse)
dhcp = up
ssh ok but can’t pass throught dietpi first run (some sources lacks I think)
-Dietpi Stretch, fresh flash, ethernet wired, power on. on 4gb sd card and 32gb (uhs)
Led status, always on
dhcp = nothing
-Dietpi Buster, fresh flash, ethernet wired, power on. on 4gb sd card and 32gb (uhs)
Led status, always on
dhcp = nothing
-Armbian fresh install, ethernet wired, power on. on 4gb sd card and 32gb (uhs)
Led status, always on
dhcp = nothing
I try to chang only the Uhs line in config after that and nothing change
-Ubuntu minimal 18.04 fresh flash, ethernet wired, power on. on 4gb sd card and 32gb (uhs)
led status : blink (like heart pulse)
dhcp = up
ssh ok
There’s no emergency, I was just trying dietpi to install pihole on it but I don’t know if it’s only me or all C1 owners.
I have a C1 but the dietpi was flashed long time ago and I do not recall any issues like this.
Can you show us the logs of what fails during first run?
After a new flash with jessie, I boot directly without updates. Can’t launch any dietpi scripts because the system can’t find them this is what i try:
root@DietPi:~# dietpi-config
-bash: /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-config: No such file or directory
root@DietPi:~# cd /boot/
root@DietPi:/boot#
root@DietPi:/boot# ls
boot.ini dietpi.txt System.map-3.10.107 uInitrd
config-3.10.107 initrd.img-3.10.107 System Volume Information uInitrd-3.10.107
config.txt meson8b_odroidc.dtb uImage
dietpi README.md uImage-3.10.107
root@DietPi:/boot# cd dietpi/
root@DietPi:/boot/dietpi# ls
boot dietpi-cleaner dietpi-drive_manager dietpi-process_tool dietpi-sync
conf dietpi-cloudshell dietpi-launcher dietpi-ramdisk dietpi-update
dietpi-autostart dietpi-config dietpi-letsencrypt dietpi-ramlog func
dietpi-backup dietpi-cpuinfo dietpi-logclear dietpi-services login
dietpi-banner dietpi-cpu_set dietpi-morsecode dietpi-software misc
dietpi-bugreport dietpi-cron dietpi-obtain_hw_model dietpi-survey patch_file
root@DietPi:/boot/dietpi# dietpi-update
-bash: /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-update: No such file or directory
root@DietPi:/boot/dietpi# ./dietpi-update
./dietpi-update: line 30: /DietPi/dietpi/func/dietpi-globals: No such file or directory
./dietpi-update: line 31: G_CHECK_ROOT_USER: command not found
./dietpi-update: line 32: G_CHECK_ROOTFS_RW: command not found
grep: /DietPi/dietpi.txt: No such file or directory
grep: /DietPi/dietpi.txt: No such file or directory
./dietpi-update: line 270: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
sed: can't read /DietPi/dietpi/.version: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /DietPi/dietpi/.version: No such file or directory
./dietpi-update: line 91: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
100 196 0 196 0 0 664 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 664
./dietpi-update: line 109: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
./dietpi-update: line 91: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 74 100 74 0 0 358 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 359
100 14 100 14 0 0 38 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 14000
./dietpi-update: line 109: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
./dietpi-update: line 155: G_DIETPI-NOTIFY: command not found
root@DietPi:/boot/dietpi#
well Jessie is not really supported anymore. And with DietPi 6.29 all scripts are moved from /DietPi directoty to /boot. What you could try to is to create a sym link
Thanks,
after some tries, jessie does not see ext4 partition. but I will not do other test, as you say Jessie is a little bit obsolete, I was trying to be sure that was not a problem with my board or sd cards.
I download again armbian image and now its working. retry dietpi and not working.
I open the img file and there’s a difference between the two, armbian has a boot partition in fat and another img file, but dietpi doesn’t:
I try and it works. But its a bit slow, I will do a full sd format before flash armbian and tell you if it’s better. I’ve got an error, when the script try to mount /tmp, but it pass trought when I use an option to solve the problem, I don’t remenber what option I choose, I’ll tell you later. Thanks for your answer.
Seems like Armbian has fixed their image, that is great . I’ll quickly create one for us. Funny that it is called “legacy” even that the kernel string is newer compared to the “current” one: https://dl.armbian.com/odroidc1/archive/
However I think the basis for this is that they reverted from single partition (this is why our image as well has a single partition only) to two partitions and re-added the uncompressed uImage, both like it was on the previous “legacy” image with Hardkernel 3.10 Linux. But the Linux version is mainstream, that is awesome!
Yeah! good to ear that, my good old c1 will revive again with dietpi.
After flashing armbian buster I launch the script to install dietpi but there’s an error, Failled at mount /tmp to create swap at the end of script. When I do open a subshell it finally work but after a reboot, the c1 is stuck at boot and network won’t obtain IP.
I Hope that you can build thew image without problem.
Thanmks for all your work
. I try STrech and Buster, same result (see attach screenshot)
. I’ll quickly create one for us. Funny that it is called “legacy” even that the kernel string is newer compared to the “current” one: 
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