RPi 4B 8GB - No partition table - mmc 0

Hello,

I am trying to run Arch AArm64 on my RaspberryPi 4B 8GB and followed the instructions using a SD/MMC/RS-MMC-to-USB adapter and a Ubuntu virtual machine (VMWare Fusion on macOS).

Unfortunately, I get the following error on serial while booting:

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')U-Boot 2021.01-1 (Jan 18 2021 - 19:59:25 +0000) Arch Linux ARM

DRAM: 7.9 GiB
RPI 4 Model B (0xd03114)
MMC: mmcnr@7e300000: 1, emmc2@7e340000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: eth0: ethernet@7d580000
PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
starting USB...
Bus xhci_pci: probe failed, error -110
No working controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

[contradict]

I am seeing the same error message. I did not make any changes to the installation instructions here and I created the SD card using Ubuntu 20.04.

The one new piece of information I can offer is that the same SD card which produces this error does boot a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4 GB, but produces the error here in the 8GB version.

[chilippso]

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')the same SD card which produces this error does boot a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4 GB, but produces the error here in the 8GB version.

[robg]

The generic aarch64 image always had issues running on the 8G version of the RPI4. I don't use uboot/mainline myself, but if you are ok with running the RPI kernel (linux-raspberrypi4), you should be able to boot (based on contradict's findings) by setting "total_mem=4096" in /boot/config.txt. Once booted, you can install linux-raspberrypi4 and raspberrypi-bootloader[-x] and revert the memory change in /boot/config.txt. If you are adamant about uboot/mainline, you might want to check out the (compatible) packages from Manjaro ARM.

[contradict]

Forcing the memory doesn't seem to change anything, the boot message does report the smaller memory number, but it still shows the same errors.

I can't figure out what changed, but after re-creating the SD card I have now hit another bug (the example here is with the memory setting, removing that only changes the `DRAM:` line):
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')U-Boot 2021.01-1 (Jan 18 2021 - 19:59:25 +0000) Arch Linux ARM

DRAM: 3.9 GiB
RPI 4 Model B (0xd03114)
MMC: mmcnr@7e300000: 1, emmc2@7e340000: 0
Loading Environment from FAT... ** No partition table - mmc 0 **
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: eth0: ethernet@7d580000
PCIe BRCM: link up, 5.0 Gbps x1 (SSC)
starting USB...
Bus xhci_pci: probe failed, error -110
No working controllers found
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
"Synchronous Abort" handler, esr 0x96000004
elr: 00000000000a2af8 lr : 00000000000a2b48 (reloc)
elr: 000000003b37faf8 lr : 000000003b37fb48
x0 : ffffffffffffffdf x1 : ffffffffffffffdf
x2 : 000000003af58e60 x3 : 0000000000000015
x4 : ffffffffffffffff x5 : 0000000000000015
x6 : 0000000000000074 x7 : 000000003b3bff15
x8 : 0000000000000008 x9 : 0000000000000008
x10: 0000000000000044 x11: 000000000000000a
x12: 0000000000000006 x13: 000000000001869f
x14: 000000003af4cc80 x15: 0000000000000002
x16: 000000003b368a44 x17: a89035a000000000
x18: 000000003af58da0 x19: 0000000000000006
x20: 000000003afea8c0 x21: 0000000000000000
x22: 0000000000000035 x23: 000000003af4b798
x24: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
x28: 000000003afea9a0 x29: 000000003af4b710

Code: b4000100 f84c0c41 d1008020 aa0003e1 (f8420c24)
Resetting CPU ...

resetting ...

[robg]

If you are willing to give it one more try: It may be possible to install the RPI kernel by chrooting into the default aarch64 image from Manjaro ARM (which, as I understand, is well supported on the 8G RPI 4.)