New NanoKVM - /dev/mmcblk0p3 - no filesytem

[madworm]

Just letting you know that I've received a "fresh" NanoKVM today

• /dev/mmcblk0p3 had no filesystem at all - according to the wiki it should be exFAT (I could fix that with mkfs.exfat, now works with usb)
• /etc/fstab doesn't have a mount point for it pointing to /data (but it gets mounted anyway after creating the exfat fs)

[polyzium]

This must be the data partition that is automatically created when the KVM boots. This happens whenever the firmware is reflashed, so I assume these little guys are mass-produced and were probably never turned on at the factory.

See #7 (comment) on reflashing the firmware.

[madworm]

Well, the partition was there, but no exFAT had been created. I dumped the partition with dd and it was all zeros.

After creating the filesystem myself it worked.

Version 2.0.9

[neoKushan]

Yeah I got a new one a couple of days ago and had to re-image the included MicroSD card, as it wasn't working correctly.

[madworm]

What method did you use for that?

I tried step #5 from this, but nothing happened.

https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/user_guide.html

I copied the decompressed image file to the root of /dev/mmcblk0p2

The wiki makes it sound like upon reboot something is supposed to happen with it, but it just stays there. Or do I need to write the image to the sd-card with dd ?

[vodkapmp]

The wiki makes it sound like upon reboot something is supposed to happen with it, but it just stays there. Or do I need to write the image to the sd-card with dd ?

Yeah, use dd to write it to the SD and you should be good

They have a guide on their wiki for flashing, it says to use balenaEtcher but dd will ofc also do the trick.
https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/system/flashing.html

Step 5 in the User Guide is about updating, that wont do anything if the system image is missing in the first place.

[Z2Z-GuGu]

@madworm Hi, we have implemented partition formatting and data mounting in/etc/init.d/S01fs. Has this been helpful for your question?