Pine A64?

so I put the newly created sd card back in the pine64.
after that, it still does not boot. same result on a second pine64…

When I use the remix OS, sd card that I ordered with the pine, it works.

so I guess I do something wrong flashing the image.

I did:

Save the 7z file in a (dropbox) folder
extract the IMG from it

Format the SD Card
Unmount it
sudo dd if=pine64.img of=/dev/disk2s1

wait for a long time, when finished, add the disk to the PINE64

I’m most unsure about the unzipping the image file
I use unrar, yet I’m not sure that program understands 7Z
I downloaded another program, yet that resulted in an image file with 0 bytes (where with unbar the results was an 8 gb image

@pguima what tool did you use?

do you have a solution?

Hello,

I have downloaded on Friday the Pine64 openhab beta4 image and i think i am having the same issue as @yves. I have tried to put the image with Win32Diskimager, ApplePi Baker, DD, but after inserting the SD Card into my Pine only the red LED is contiuous on. I can’t get the Pine onto my network, because i can’t see on the DHCP that the Pine takes an IP. I tried to generate an IP on the DHCP with MAC and IP but the Pine still wont answer on Pings oder SSH.
Does someone has a solution for this?

Thanks, Armin

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I don’t have a solution yet either…

@pguima would you care to share your image on a dropbox folder or so?

Everything works fine except that my Z wave controller goes offline after some days or a reboot. Its sporadic.
I get the Serial Error: Port /dev/ttyS2 does not exist
and in paper UI i cant change the serial port.
Can anyone help me,

This is my dmesg | grep tty output:

0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 7.381246] uart0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c28000 (irq = 32) is a SUNXI
[ 8.360054] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 8.364393] uart1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x1c28400 (irq = 33) is a SUNXI
[ 8.371310] uart2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1c28800 (irq = 34) is a SUNXI
[ 8.378344] uart3: ttyS3 at MMIO 0x1c28c00 (irq = 35) is a SUNXI
[ 8.385346] uart4: ttyS4 at MMIO 0x1c29000 (irq = 36) is a SUNXI
[ 13.323568] systemd[1]: Created slice system-serial\x2dgetty.slice.
[ 14.120806] systemd[1]: Created slice system-getty.slice.
[ 15.649413] usb 4-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 282.057860] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[ 284.934914] usb 4-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 383.785442] ttyUSB1: 1 input overrun(s)

Regards
Goran

@yves – Are you still having trouble with your image? I haven’t been around for the past few weeks. I used win32diskimager to build my SD.

Noop the image works fine, I’m using MySensors serial gateway on a usb port. It seems like the serial ports some times gets reconfigured, when that happens the pine zwave module goes offline. When i disconnect the MySensors serial gateway and reboot everything is back to normal.

No I can’t get it to work.
I 'm on a mac so win32diskimager does not help me.
and yes I’m aware it’s probably that I can’t get the image on an SD card.

I tried the previous image and had the same problem.

I did use the checksum so I know the downloads are ok

I also used a different card that I got with my pine’s to see if the pine’s are ok.
That card booted on 2 pine’s. (where the downloads do not work)

Next step: try the downloads on a new SD card…

I had a problem a long time back when I first loaded this image as well. Turned out to be something funky with the Wifi card I believe? It was causing something to hang during the boot process until it was changed. Then I was able to reboot and leave the Wifi card attached. It’s been awhile as I’m in the process of packing and moving, so unfortunately I can’t do much testing. But search the boards on the Pine64 site and here. There was some article I found that outlined the issue and helped me out. Best solution, hook up a monitor to the Pine64 so you can see the boot process, you should see the error or the spot where it hangs and then search that message on this forum and the Pine64 one.

I ordered a new SD card
I was not sure about the unzipping. Today I followed
http://rayhightower.com/blog/2016/04/04/pine64-quick-start-guide-using-mac-os-x/

And now it works.
The configuring will be the next days :wink: