On Apr 23 17:51:42, h...@stare.cz wrote:
> After the flash, I removed the USB stick
> and the APU booted from the SD card
> - only to panic later when the SD card "disappeared";
> it was not even offered on the next boot, nor was it
> seen at the next USB boot to be reinstalled on.
>
> So I suspect the media:
>
> On Apr 23 06:55:16, we...@weirdnet.nl wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:54:22PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> > | Booting from Hard Disk...
> > | Using drive 0, partition 3.
> > | Loading
> > | ERR R
> >
> > These "ERR x" error codes are documented in biosboot(8)[1]. They're
> > brief because the biosboot program is quite space constrained. In
> > this particular case, "ERR R", the documentation says:
> >
> > > ERR R Read error. The BIOS returned an error indication when
> > > biosboot
> > > attempted to read a disk sector. This might be any media
> > > error,
> > > including bad sectors (common on floppy disks), and invalid
> > > sectors (can occur with bad geometry translations).
>
> Indeed, the SD card took three inserts on another machine to appear.
> I will try with another one and get back.
Sure enough, with a decent SD card,
everything works just fine.
Thanks again.
Jan
