eMMC Write endurance

Cabledude

@stephenw10 said in eMMC Write endurance:

Yup hit space to select it.

And, yes, it boots the USB3 drive as priority so if you have both connected at boot the installer must be there. But you can swap it back after install to get better drive speeds.

Cool

I seem to be out of luck again. I tried two different USB drives but I get new error messages which halt the installation process:
#1 installation 24.03 on a different thumb drive:

#2 installation 24.03 on the 120GB SSD:

Not sure if the screen shot is readable. It says "Child process terminated abnormally" and "Failed to reclaim memory"

What could be happening here now?

stephenw10

Hmm, I hit that once but just ran it again and it worked. The 1GB ram on the 1100 is near the limit.

Cabledude

@stephenw10
Yes I was starting to think it could be RAM full. Is it the net installer that occupies extra space in RAM? Is the SG-1100 even a viable option moving forward into 2025 and beyond? Especially if every new release may need more RAM to install?

Might it be an idea to install 23.09 through the net installer (maybe less/smaller files?) and then perform upgrade to 24.03 via GUI?

stephenw10

I would have expected a direct install to 24.03 to be lower requirement. I have been installing images to an 1100 for a few days and it should work.

JonathanLee

Disable logging that is not needed all the time, and or use a usb drive and set the system to log to it..

Cabledude

@JonathanLee said in eMMC Write endurance:

Disable logging that is not needed all the time, and or use a usb drive and set the system to log to it..

Thanks Jonathan. However this issue is about a fresh install to USB storage, bypassing the eMMC. Here, the installation fails i.e. RAM appears to be full during file copying to USB drive.

stephenw10

Is it consistently failing at the same point?

Cabledude

@stephenw10
No is failed at two different points. But installation finished successfully on the 3rd try, 2nd try with the external SSD as target drive.

Strangely, in the console startup of the new installation, the unit requires to change the default admin password from pfsense to a user chosen password. I've never seen that before.

Main thing is I got it working now.

So basically adding the SSD turns an EOL SG-1100 (EOL due to broken eMMC) back into a MINT unit, if I understand this correctly.

Cabledude

@stephenw10 said in eMMC Write endurance:

To boot from USB every time you need to change the bootcmd uboot env to run usbboot;

So at the Marvell>> prompt:
setenv bootcmd='run usbboot;'
saveenv
reset

Thanks for this by the way, yet at this point I don't understand what it's for. After the installation finished I unplugged the net installer thumb drive and swapped the SSD to the 1100's USB3 port and it is consistently booting from the SSD now.

Cabledude

@stephenw10

I am continuing this in a separate topic as I am running into more issues and I don't want to pollute this eMMC topic more than I already have.