BPI-M7 Boot Armbian from NVME

Banana Pi SBCs design
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I cannot seem to locate specific instructions on how to boot the Banana Pi BPI-M7 from NVME nor how to move the OS from the SD Card to the NVME. Raspberry Pi provides 2 well documented mechanisms for this as does Orange Pi. Where may I find detailed instructions for the aged for the for the Banana Pi BPI-M7?

I would have put this under “Banana Pi Documentation” as the category but that was not offered as an option. Nether was any category based on the BPI-M7 offered.

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If you are using Armbian, did you try Armbian documentation? This should most likely work Getting Started - Armbian Documentation?

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I cannot seem to get sudo armbian-install to function on the BananaPi-M7, not even to eMMC.

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This tells too little.

Please make a report this way:

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Issue running or building or INSTALLING ?

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Running = everything that is not building an image.

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The “app” said do a `armbianmonitor -U’ and pastebin it, and sent me here :-

I will do so in a bit.

I am trying to install Ambian on to the BananaPi-M7 the NVME / M2 SSD. I had a failed install as the uSDCard image was 256GB larger than the eMMC, so it balked. I tried a 128GB uSDCard, followed by a 64GB uSDCard, but got the same error each time even on the 64GB one. I seem to have two partitions on the eMMC, boot1, and boot2 now, I am not sure if they were on the boards eMMC originally or what the boot sequence for the board is. If the Masked ROM tries to boot the uSDCard if present and if that fails it boots the eMMC ?

Do I do the armbian-install clear eMMC option and try again with the 64GB uSDcard ?

I will do a proper report with an lsblk -a as well as the armbianmonitor -U in a while, here, as well as Banana Pi M7 - Armbian Community Forums

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okay :- hastebin

aaronngray@bananapim7:~$ lsblk -a
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
ram0           1:0    0     4M  0 disk 
loop0          7:0    0     0B  0 loop 
loop1          7:1    0     0B  0 loop 
loop2          7:2    0     0B  0 loop 
loop3          7:3    0     0B  0 loop 
loop4          7:4    0     0B  0 loop 
loop5          7:5    0     0B  0 loop 
loop6          7:6    0     0B  0 loop 
loop7          7:7    0     0B  0 loop 
mmcblk1      179:0    0  59.7G  0 disk 
└─mmcblk1p1  179:1    0  59.1G  0 part /var/log.hdd
                                       /
mmcblk0      179:32   0 115.3G  0 disk 
mmcblk0boot0 179:64   0     4M  1 disk 
mmcblk0boot1 179:96   0     4M  1 disk 
zram0        252:0    0  15.5G  0 disk [SWAP]
zram1        252:1    0    50M  0 disk /var/log
zram2        252:2    0     0B  0 disk 
nvme0n1      259:0    0   1.8T  0 disk
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Link to Armbian issue discussion :-