HC4: Only red led is on, no blue led, no hdmi: What can i do?

[norrin]

Hi.
My HC4 worked reliable for more than a year.
Yesterday i rebooted (by ssh) and now it won't boot.

Red LED: on
Blue LED: nothing
Orange LED at the LAN-Port: on
The HDD seems to work after i plug the AC in.
HDMI: No signal.

I put the sd-card in my linux-notebook and it is not corrupted and there is still empty space on the partitions.

I do not really remember what OS i installed but i think it was a debian.
I saw a big hardkenel-logo when i logged in by ssh.

On the /boot-partition there are 2 images:
- initrd.img-5.11.0-odroid-arm64
and
- initrd.img-5.14.0-odroid-arm64

Hope this is enough information.
What can i do?
Any ideas?

[tobetter]

Can you flash this image to new SD card and boot from your ODROID-HC4, but keep pressing black button on the bottom of it when you plug in DC adapter. Then check if it boots and shows you something to HDMI display.
http://ppa.linuxfactory.or.kr/images/pe ... 222.img.xz

[norrin]

In the meantime i tried another fresh image (debian buster for c4/hc4) and this boots and the HDMI works!
So my beloved toaster seems to be still reliable, but it is an sd-card-issue?
Strange because my fedora detects the 3 partitions and i can browse and read the folders.

@tobetter:
Should i still try the linked image?

When i dd the content of the sd-card to another one, could this be a soulution?

[tobetter]

In the meantime i tried another fresh image (debian buster for c4/hc4) and this boots and the HDMI works!
So my beloved toaster seems to be still reliable, but it is an sd-card-issue?
Strange because my fedora detects the 3 partitions and i can browse and read the folders.

@tobetter:
Should i still try the linked image?

When i dd the content of the sd-card to another one, could this be a soulution?

If it boots, your ODROID-HC4 is fine and I believe you did use Petitboot if you have the SD card which have the files *-odroid-arm64 in the first partition. If you have installed the OS using Netboot Installer in Petitboot, the SD card would not have the boot loader, so you need to update/recover the Petitboot in SPI flash memory. So my suggestion is "Yes" please download the image and flash to new SD card, and boot from it. Then try to run commands in the command line of Petitboot.

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udhcpc
pb-update

[norrin]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

[tobetter]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

[norrin]

Yes, i know, but how did i messed it up this time?

[tomerr]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

[tobetter]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

WOL would work with Petitboot if you are running upstream kernel, not 4.19 kernel, since WOL configuration sets in Petitboot.

[tomerr]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

WOL would work with Petitboot if you are running upstream kernel, not 4.19 kernel, since WOL configuration sets in Petitboot.

ok but that's not what i asked -
i asked if there's a connection between WOL stopping to work (it worked just fine before, kernel 5.15.0 ) after Petitboot got corrupted somehow and stopped showing

[tobetter]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

WOL would work with Petitboot if you are running upstream kernel, not 4.19 kernel, since WOL configuration sets in Petitboot.

ok but that's not what i asked -
i asked if there's a connection between WOL stopping to work (it worked just fine before, kernel 5.15.0 ) after Petitboot got corrupted somehow and stopped showing

I think my answer is the same. WOL will work when you use Petitboot if you run upstream kernel. But if you run 4.9 kernel, WOL work without Petitboot.

[tomerr]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

WOL would work with Petitboot if you are running upstream kernel, not 4.19 kernel, since WOL configuration sets in Petitboot.

ok but that's not what i asked -
i asked if there's a connection between WOL stopping to work (it worked just fine before, kernel 5.15.0 ) after Petitboot got corrupted somehow and stopped showing

I think my answer is the same. WOL will work when you use Petitboot if you run upstream kernel. But if you run 4.9 kernel, WOL work without Petitboot.

(last try) my Kernel as mentioned before is 5.15.0
I have an issue where Petitboot STOPPED working (i assume as a result of unclean shutdown) - it doesn't load/show when I start the HC4 , but Debian is loading fine.
BEFORE this issue started (and Petitboot was showing) , WOL was working FINE .
NOW (right now Petitboot not loading/corrupted) , WOL doesn't work
My question is, IS Petitboot going corrupt (not working/showing) RELATED to the WOL stopping to work?

[tobetter]

That was it!
Update was successful and now the sd-card works again!
THANK YOU

BTW:
So i did "apt update/upgrade" something that could not work with the old petitboot?
Should i have read this in the update process?

apt is Debian/Ubuntu command, not for Petitboot.

@tobetter , does it make sense that WOL stopped working for me, due to Petitboot going corrupted somehow and not showing when I boot the HC4?
HC4 boots fine without showing Petitboot (I didn't originally do netinstall) , only WOL stopped working.

WOL would work with Petitboot if you are running upstream kernel, not 4.19 kernel, since WOL configuration sets in Petitboot.

ok but that's not what i asked -
i asked if there's a connection between WOL stopping to work (it worked just fine before, kernel 5.15.0 ) after Petitboot got corrupted somehow and stopped showing

I think my answer is the same. WOL will work when you use Petitboot if you run upstream kernel. But if you run 4.9 kernel, WOL work without Petitboot.

(last try) my Kernel as mentioned before is 5.15.0
I have an issue where Petitboot STOPPED working (i assume as a result of unclean shutdown) - it doesn't load/show when I start the HC4 , but Debian is loading fine.
BEFORE this issue started (and Petitboot was showing) , WOL was working FINE .
NOW (right now Petitboot not loading/corrupted) , WOL doesn't work
My question is, IS Petitboot going corrupt (not working/showing) RELATED to the WOL stopping to work?

My answer is same as before, you do not have Petitboot and running upstream kernel (v5.15) so WOL won't work.
Also WOL is CPU wise feature, it does not affect Petitboot corrupted absolutely.
WOL is never enabled/supported for 5.x kernel without Petitboot.