Determine hardware version from commandline

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M1/M1+/R1(A20)
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This is the function that works on the BPi M1

Bpiname(){
  sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
  grep '^BPINAME' /mnt/.config |grep -o '[^=]*$'
  sudo umount /mnt
}

Outputting: MIKEY Banana Pi BPI v1.0

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So after all directories are properly copied to the HDD, just change the file cmdline.txt on /dev/mmcblk0p1, and reboot?

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if it is cmdline.txt on your setup…yes…my boards have only uenv.txt…your kernel has builtin-sata-support?

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I tried checking for the SATA support, my /proc/config.gz has:

CONFIG_SATA_PMP=y
CONFIG_SW_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM=y

So to me it seems the SATA support is builtin – right?

(My uEnv.txt only has one line: ethaddr=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff…)

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in 5.x/4.x the main-option should be

CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
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I have 3.4.112-sun7i and that option is not present, but all options that have SATA are builtin. If it doesn’t boot on SATA, I guess I could edit the kernel commandline in GRUB and still boot from /dev/mmcblk0

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you can leave your sd-card for testing as it is…remember changing fstab on hdd-rootfs to mount right partition (not from sdcard again) :wink:

and then you can change back by editing uboot-config (i don’t think you have grub)

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Haha, of course, no GRUB (I never see it booting as it’s normally headless). Thanks for the reminder about fstab on the HDD. So by “editing uboot-config” you mean (in my case) editing cmdline.txt, right?

Is there any chance of booting off a LUKS encrypted partition? I guess that would involve rebuilding the uInitrd – if at all possible.

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As i said my config is all in uenv.txt (bpi-r2/r64),i have no cmdline.txt. But if there is your /dev/mmcblkxpy root then try change it there. I guess your uboot is configured to use different files for config.

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Hi pepa65,

if you running on an armbian-os there will be the file /etc/armbian-release generated with additional informations also about the board used. The two vairables BOARD and BOARD_NAME will be exported, so your shell can use it.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

pi@bananapi:/etc$ cat /etc/armbian-release

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

BOARD=bananapi

BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi"

BOARDFAMILY=sun7i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=7223cca4 VERSION=5.90 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage pi@bananapi:/etc$

pi@bananapi:/etc$ echo $BOARD_NAME

Banana Pi

pi@bananapi:/etc$

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

pi@bananapim2zero:~$ cat /etc/armbian-release

PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE

BOARD=bananapim2zero

BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi M2 Zero"

BOARDFAMILY=sun8i VERSION=5.41 LINUXFAMILY=sun8i BRANCH=default ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=user-built BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage pi@bananapim2zero:~$ pi@bananapim2zero:~$ echo $BOARD_NAME

Banana Pi M2 Zero

pi@bananapim2zero:~$

~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Regards WolliK

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echo "$(tr -d '\0' 2>/dev/null </proc/device-tree/model)"