Hi,

so yes, I tested two more SDHC cards today and they all work. Seems to be a 
problem with standard SD 1.x cards, probably <= 2GB.


Greetings,
Markus

> On 26.07.2015, at 16:53, Markus Kasten <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ordered a SanDisk Ultra 32GB SDHC microSD card w/ adapter today, will 
> report back if it works once it arrives.
> 
> Thanks,
> Markus
> 
>> On 26.07.2015, at 11:58, Karsten Merker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 05:33:14PM +0000, Markus Kasten wrote:
>> 
>>> Package: u-boot-sunxi
>>> Version: 2014.10-2015.04 (stable/testing/unstable)
>>> Severity: important
>>> Tags: d-i upstream
>>> 
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>> 
>>> I was trying to use the debian installer SD-card netboot image
>>> to install a fresh copy of debian on my Banana Pi (the ones from
>>> http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/dists/<stability>/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/).
>>> The image boots the u-boot bootloader properly, but fails to
>>> load vmlinuz off my sdcard.  Loading and booting the installer
>>> via tftp works without problems.  The same thing happens after
>>> installing debian: u-boot boots up properly, but fails to load
>>> the kernel (ext2 instead of fat this time).  Listing files on
>>> the sdcard with fatls/ext2ls gives me the correct list of files
>>> without error.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Here is the output of u-boot with the netboot image:
>>> 
>>> U-Boot 2014.10+dfsg1-5 (Apr 07 2015 - 22:00:53) Allwinner Technology
>> [...]
>>> Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
>>> reading /boot.scr
>>> 1451 bytes read in 44 ms (31.3 KiB/s)
>>> ## Executing script at 43100000
>>> Mainline u-boot / new-style environment detected.
>>> reading vmlinuz
>>> Error reading cluster
>>> ** Unable to read file vmlinuz **
>>> SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
>>> ** Can't read partition table on 0:0 **
>>> ** Invalid partition 1 **
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Output after installing debian, booting the installation:
>> [...]
>>> Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
>>> 2120 bytes read in 78 ms (26.4 KiB/s)
>>> ## Executing script at 43100000
>>> Mainline u-boot / new-style environment detected.
>>> ** ext4fs_devread read error - block
>>> SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I tried this with a couple of different cards:
>>> * SanDisk Ultra II 2GB: does not work
>>> * SanDisk Ultra II 2GB (another one): does not work
>>> * SanDisk Ultra II 1GB: does not work
>>> 
>>> I also pulled the images off the card again to check the
>>> md5sum, it's correct.
>>> 
>>> This applies to stable, testing and unstable (from 25.07.2015)
>>> images.
>>> 
>>> Interestingly, it works with an SanDisk Extreme 16GB SDHC card,
>>> so this might be a timing issue (as suggested in IRC).  I
>>> currently don't have any other cards laying around to test this
>>> with, so I can't provide info on other cards and manufacturers.
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce the problem here, but looking at which cards
>> work and which cards do not work for you makes me wonder whether
>> this might be an issue of SD vs. SDHC.  All cards that do not
>> work for you are "classic" SD cards while the one that works for
>> you is an SDHC one.
>> 
>> I have only SDHC cards (which work for me without problems) and
>> no "classic" SD cards, so I unfortunately cannot test the latter.
>> Do you perhaps have the chance to try another SDHC card?
>> 
>> HTH,
>> Karsten
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