BPI-R2 Pro Waiting for Root device Forever after upgrading Kernel 6.1.22 -> 6.2-main

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R2 Pro(RK3568)
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Hello all, I did a custom compile of the kernel to add IPsec, xfrm, net_key, and so on for testing StrongSwan. Thought to upgrade the kernel version at the same time.

Setup an Ubuntu 20.04 with all the tools (gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu 9.3.0, too old?), and compile went fine. Choose option 1 for packing (@frank-w 's repository). Found a SD folder. Did sudo cp * in SD/BPI-BOOT/extlinux to bpi SD /boot/extlinux/ Essentially only overwritten the Image.gz and .dtb. Booting up the bpi, and got machine stuck on Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblo0p3…

Not sure whether only overwriting two files in /boot is too naive. There are no <M> option in .config.

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And also, I lost access to my Forum account from multiple IPs. Home and work native IP. Luckily, I have access to multiple WAN IPs with s2s ipsec.

Obviously getting the R2 Pro to be part of my s2s ipsec network is already too much trouble, could @sinovoip to take a look at my account?

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Can you try newer 6.1-main? maybe mmc is broken on 6.2 (but should not). Do you really need 6.2 (as it is no lts kernel)? If really needed you can also try 6.5-main ,maybe bug is already fixed.

You have no new account, i don’t think there is an ip limitation here…

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I haven’t drilled down to the real issue yet, it seems to be me not unmounting build folder or rm -r SD first before doing another around of fresh compiling.

I also re-applied the importconfig, and gotten rid of extraneous modules in .config, it seems back to life now.

The account issue here seems to be fixed as well.

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You can disable builddir in build.conf so that no out-off-tree build is done. So all working now?