Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat anchor. Now I'm obviously not entirely sure about this, and it /could/ be an unfortunate

Re: Error message on update of debian jessie on banana pi M64

2018-07-21 Thread Freek de Kruijf
Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 03:00:00 CEST schreef Gene Heskett: > On Friday 20 July 2018 17:55:23 Freek de Kruijf wrote: > > Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 10:36:53 CEST schreef Paul Wise: > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Freek de Kruijf wrote: > > > I suggest upgrading your system to Debian stretch.

Re: Error message on update of debian jessie on banana pi M64

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 04:03:24 Freek de Kruijf wrote: > Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 03:00:00 CEST schreef Gene Heskett: > > On Friday 20 July 2018 17:55:23 Freek de Kruijf wrote: > > > Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 10:36:53 CEST schreef Paul Wise: > > > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Freek de

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 14:58:35 gru...@manlymail.net wrote: > take a look at > https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could find in the bios was to disable the

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 14:58:35 gru...@manlymail.net wrote: take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4 I have one, bricked, it has a uefi bios and at the time, the linux installer had no clue how to deal with it. The only option I could

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory. There's a modicum of muttering that the 3B+ has broken something relating

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Alan Corey
Hmpf, only 2 GB of RAM. I'd like to see 16 or 64. Or put an SODIMM socket on the board so you could plug in what you want. I generally consider RAM size more important than CPU speed. As far as the dead SD, have you tried formatting it in a phone or camera, then bringing it back to Linux? But

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 19:45, Gene Heskett wrote: And something is wrong with the locale, even a "dpkg-reconfigure locale" cannot create the locale vars needed. Getting a 9 line complaint from perl for every file processed. Referring to my notes for setting up pukka Debian on an RPi I note that the

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 14:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on > >> a TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Alan Corey
I'm liking Buster, I've been running arm64 that on this Pi since November by the date on my sources.list. Also pulling from unstable: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Smooth as silk at least for what I

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Alan Corey
Error 2 is file not found, at least in C. Don't know what it's looking for. Sent from my Motorola XT1527 On Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 3:30 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 21 July 2018

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 13:13:00 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 21/07/18 16:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2018 10:20:02 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >> I'd been comparing the performance of a Rockchip-based board's LAN > >> and USB against an RPi3B+, results were satisfactory.

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 15:37:24 Alan Corey wrote: > Error 2 is file not found, at least in C. Don't know what it's > looking for. > userspace.api the named string in a previous not show stopper failure, it is a directory and contains: conf.py index.rst no_new_privs.rst seccomp_filter.rst

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread grumpy
take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread grumpy
take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread grumpy
take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread grumpy
take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread grumpy
take a look at https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-xu4

Re: Cautionary tale: how to kill an SDCard with one simple command

2018-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 21 July 2018 07:46:38 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > I wanted to do a bit of low-level maintenance yesterday evening on a > TinkerBoard (Rockchip RK3288) running Stretch, so as an old PC hand I > ran telinit 1 At that point the SDCard became a boat anchor. > > Now I'm obviously not