Creating a bug report/issue
Required Information
- DietPi version | 8.18.2
- Distro version | bullseye
- Kernel version | Linux DietPiO 4.9.312-arm64
- Architecture | arm64
- SBC model | Odroid C4/HC4 (aarch64)
- Power supply used | 15 V / 4 A (official power supply)
- SD card used | Samsung EVO
Additional Information (if applicable)
- Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi?
→ Yes
Steps to reproduce
1a. Shutdown HC4, remove power and bring power back
1b Restart HC4
Expected behaviour
- DietPi should boot
Actual behaviour
- Only Hardkernel logo is visible via HDMI
- DietPi doesn’t react via Ethernet
Extra details
- Interesting topic in ODROID forum:
My new HC-4 doesn't boot the provided minimal Ubuntu 20.04 - ODROID
Hello everyone,
this is probably an issue of the ODROID HC4 and not of DietPi itself, but maybe some of you have had this issue as well and can help out. During the weekend, we had a power outage. When the power came back, DietPi didn’t come back. My Pi-Hole wasn’t working, etc. So I tried to access it via DietPi, but there was no response.
I then prepared another SD card with a clean image if DietPi, but the same thing happened. So the issue was not that the SD card was corrupted. After a lot of research, I came across a thread in the ODROID forum:
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=42572
It was recommended to push the black button on the bottom of the HC4 and see if that helps. And it actually did. When pressing it, I can properly start DietPi from the SD card. Now I don’t want to press this button every time DietPi restarts. So I tried to follow the steps described in this thread and get rid of the SPI flash memory. I downloaded the image to update the SPI. I could boot the image (while pushing the black button), but entering the following commands ended with an error:
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd2
Within /dev, there are no folders with the names mtd… I wanted to reply in this thread and get additional help, but the e-mail required to enable my account doesn’t arrive. So can anyone here give me tips as how to resolve my issue? I also wonder why this only started happening now. I have the ODROID HC4 since 2021 and never had such issues until now.