Omega2+: reboot and sd card fixed!

Lazar Demin

Hi everyone,
We know we've been a little absent from the forum, but we've been absolutely bombarded with messages from Kickstarter regarding shipping. Before I talk about the Omega2+ fixes, I would like to thank everyone for their patience and support so far. We know we've done a poor job of communicating so far and we are actively working to fix that issue. Expect more frequent updates from us and more time spent on the forum!
Also, I will make it a priority to get our Pull Request to the LEDE project repo merged in and to open source the vast majority of our code.

What you came here for:
As of firmware b143, reboot and mounting/reading/writing SD cards has been fixed!

What's next:
We will be putting together a changelog so that everyone knows whats going on in the firmware, expect that soon!
Also incoming: documentation on using the SD card and a repo of known issues!

Onion

Don DeGregori

@Lazar-Demin What is the latest firmware. I only see 0.1.7 (b139)
My setup has been very unstable. After many tries this morning I was finally able to see what I had the other day and update is not required.

WereCatf

@Don-DeGregori You can see the latest firmware-images at http://repo.onion.io/omega2/images/

Mark B

@WereCatf said in Omega2+: reboot and sd card fixed!:

@Don-DeGregori You can see the latest firmware-images at http://repo.onion.io/omega2/images/

More specifically, to get something other than the latest console installable, follow the procedure outlined here:
link https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/manual-firmware-installation.html

Note that there are Omega2 and Omeg2+ variants and bad things may happen if you get the wrong one!

Zogg Baubas

@Lazar-Demin Hurrey!!! Do you have resources to host a wiki? Or money to buy a hosted wiki from one of the better known wikifarm? I think dumping and formatting info together, as a community and you - devs, we'd travel at much faster and less stressful pace.

Martin Wiedmeyer

I installed the b143 firmware using the instructions here:
https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/manual-firmware-installation.html

I can confirm that the system can see/write/read from the SD card.

Nice.

Steven de Salas

I did oupgrade --latest, from https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/first-time-setup-command-line.html, and that seemed to do the trick.

Using b145 now and confirm SD card working. Annoyingly though, the reboot fix means that poweroff is also rebooting.

Check df first to see if it got mounted automatically. Mine was mounted on /tmp for a bit and then it got unmounted by itself.

I then checked /dev directory and found something like mmcblk0p1, then did mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/sda1 and was able to peruse through the contents of my SD card in the /mnt/sda1 folder.

If neither of those options work try dig through the contents of dmesg, a fixed SD card should look like this:

[    4.425711] MTK MSDC device init.
[    4.468827] mtk-sd: MediaTek MT6575 MSDC Driver
[    4.477086] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[    4.483459] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[    4.491632] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
[    4.506441] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    4.523233] init: - preinit -
[    4.836974] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa
[    4.936856] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SL08G 7.40 GiB
[    4.949692]  mmcblk0: p1

and a broken one like this:

[ 542.418508] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 1234
[ 542.424731] mmcblk: probe of mmc0:1234 failed with error -28

Greg Howard

Attempting to use the manual firmware upgrade method outlined by @steven de Salas and @Martin Wiedemeyer... On using the sysupgrade command to firmware omega2p-v0.1.8-145.bin I am prompted for root sign in whereas the root login no longer works.

This may be a feature so the update in not interrupted, but does not seem like it. I could also be that the 0.1.8 requires a login that the 0.1.7 does not.

Firmware not upgrading on command. Any suggestions other than us the "-F" for force the firmware upgrade?

Zogg Baubas

@Greg-Howard said in Omega2+: reboot and sd card fixed!:

Attempting to use the manual firmware upgrade method outlined by @steven de Salas and @Martin Wiedemeyer... On using the sysupgrade command to firmware omega2p-v0.1.8-145.bin I am prompted for root sign in whereas the root login no longer works.

This may be a feature so the update in not interrupted, but does not seem like it. I could also be that the 0.1.8 requires a login that the 0.1.7 does not.

Firmware not upgrading on command. Any suggestions other than us the "-F" for force the firmware upgrade?

Just make sure the firmware file is under /tmp directory tree before trying --force'ing.

Lazar Demin

The firmware changelog and known issues listing is up! See the docs site: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/firmware-reference.html

@Zogg-Baubas We have plans to overhaul the existing Onion wiki and make it more user friendly. In the meantime, please consult the documentation at docs.onion.io

@Greg-Howard @Zogg-Baubas
No need to manually run sysupgrade to get to the latest firmware, you can just run oupgrade -l and it will take care of everything for you. This is mentioned in the docs, see the section titled Upgrading to the Latest Version at https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/updating-the-omega.html

Zogg Baubas

@Lazar-Demin said in Omega2+: reboot and sd card fixed!:

The firmware changelog and known issues listing is up! See the docs site: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/firmware-reference.html

@Zogg-Baubas We have plans to overhaul the existing Onion wiki and make it more user friendly. In the meantime, please consult the documentation at docs.onion.io

@Greg-Howard @Zogg-Baubas
No need to manually run sysupgrade to get to the latest firmware, you can just run oupgrade -l and it will take care of everything for you. This is mentioned in the docs, see the section titled Upgrading to the Latest Version at https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/updating-the-omega.html

About the oupgrade - when Omega has no internet connectivity we have to place the binary manually, hence the usage of sysupgrade.

And about the Wiki - lets do it! We need to have space to offload information from forums into better structured medium.

Vinh

Is it really fixed? in v0.1.8 I still can't connect my SD card. I even used dmesg to see it correctly. The always helping command mount did not solve the problem. Any Ideas?

B T

@Vinh-Tran it is fixed in firmware 0.1.9 (b149)

Valeriy Yatsenkov

@Lazar-Demin , after receiving last kickstarter letter about 0.1.9 firmware I tried to upgrade firmvare and result is only this message:

Checking latest version online...
ERROR: Could not connect to Onion Firmware Server! Check your internet connection and try again!

But my internet connection is OK, would you check the state of your server? I tried different methods of upgrade. None work. It was worked nice yesterday for 0.1.7, but not today for 0.1.9.

B T

@Lazar-Demin Thank you... how do we mount the micro SD card? The docs micro SD card link: https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/omega2p.html#using-a-microsd-card is not working. Thanks.

WereCatf

@B-T If your card is formatted with a supported filesystem it should be available under /tmp/run/mountd/mmcblk0p1 or similar automatically as soon as you insert the card. You can check free space on the card and where it is mounted simply by calling df on the command-line.

D R

So I can see my SD card and I can write to/read from it but I'm still not sure if it can be used for installing packages etc

B T

@WereCatf not showing the card when running df, my card is 32 GB and the closes to it is /dev/mtdblock6 25728. I did check the path you shared with me and it looked like there was something with the size of my card. Is this the path where I should be checking to get to my card?

WereCatf

@B-T What do df -h|grep "mmcblk0" and ls -l /dev/mmcblk* give you?

Vinh

Setting up Omega2+ is more a frustration compared to Raspberry Pi or Arduino.

Anyone knows a workaround to get SD Card working (I already tried build 149)?
df : always doesn't show the card
dmesg shows me my card:
...
MTK MSDC device init.
mtk-sd: MediaTek MT6575 MSDC Driver
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
init: - preinit -
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address xxxx
mmcblk0: mmc0:xxxx SL32G 29.0 GiB
random: procd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read, 9 bits of entropy available)
mmcblk0: p1
...