iMX8MP Error writing image to sd card

[DaengCheong]

Dear NXP, 

I am developing Android-13.0.0_2.0.0 AOSP.
I finished building according to Android User's Guide (Rev. android-13.0.0_2.0.0 — 31 Julie 2023) and I am writing an image to the SD card, but I get the error "Missing make_f2fs, fallback to erase the user data partition". 'make_f2fs' exists in '$OUT/host/linux-x86/bin/', but this error occurs. Is there no problem writing images on the sd card?

Thanks.

[elisehilton]

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[DaengCheong · Accepted solution]

For some reason, it did not work even if the location of make_f2fs was set as an environment variable. I specified /out/host/linux-x86/bin/make_f2fs in the sh file and it was resolved.

[mingzhou]

Have you installed android sdk platform tools?

If so, you can use the make_f2fs is in Android/Sdk/platform-tools

Need to add the folder to root path.

[shiva141]

Hi ,
Installed android sdk and added make_f2fs path in imx-sdcard-partition.sh

still facing error in flashing Andorid 13 image on sd card.

$ sudo ./imx-sdcard-partition.sh -f imx8mp -c 28 /dev/sdc
make gpt partition for android: partition-table-28GB.img
17+0 records in
17+0 records out
17408 bytes (17 kB, 17 KiB) copied, 0.00608634 s, 2.9 MB/s

/dev/sdc:
re-reading partition table
Caution: invalid backup GPT header, but valid main header; regenerating
backup header from main header.

Warning! Main and backup partition tables differ! Use the 'c' and 'e' options
on the recovery & transformation menu to examine the two tables.

Warning! One or more CRCs don't match. You should repair the disk!
Main header: OK
Backup header: ERROR
Main partition table: OK
Backup partition table: ERROR

formating android images
format_partition: metadata:/dev/sdc10 f2fs
/usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/make_f2fs: invalid option -- 'g'
Error: Unknown option ?

Usage: mkfs.f2fs [options] device [sectors]
[options]:
-a heap-based allocation [default:0]
-c [device path] up to 7 devices excepts meta device
-d debug level [default:0]
-e [cold file ext list] e.g. "mp3,gif,mov"
-E [hot file ext list] e.g. "db"
-f force overwrite the exist filesystem
-i extended node bitmap, node ratio is 20% by default
-l label
-m support zoned block device [default:0]
-o overprovision ratio [default:5]
-O [feature list] e.g. "encrypt"
-q quiet mode
-s # of segments per section [default:1]
-S sparse mode
-t 0: nodiscard, 1: discard [default:1]
-w wanted sector size
-z # of sections per zone [default:1]
sectors: number of sectors. [default: determined by device size]

[mingzhou]

Here is the make_f2fs binary in my PC.

Maybe your Android sdk is not correctly installed.

xxx@xxx-Ubuntu:~$ which make_f2fs
/home/xxx/Android/Sdk/platform-tools/make_f2fs
xxx@xxx-Ubuntu:~$ make_f2fs -V
mkfs.f2fs 1.16.0 (2023-04-11)
xxx@xxx-Ubuntu:~$ make_f2fs --help

Usage: mkfs.f2fs [options] device [sectors]
[options]:
-a heap-based allocation [default:0]
-c device1[,device2,...] up to 7 additional devices, except meta device
-d debug level [default:0]
-e [cold file ext list] e.g. "mp3,gif,mov"
-E [hot file ext list] e.g. "db"
-f force overwrite of the existing filesystem
-g add default options
-i extended node bitmap, node ratio is 20% by default
-l label
-U uuid
-m support zoned block device [default:0]
-o overprovision percentage [default:auto]
-O feature1[,feature2,...] e.g. "encrypt"
-C [encoding[:flag1,...]] Support casefolding with optional flags
-q quiet mode
-r set checkpointing seed (srand()) to 0
-R root_owner [default: 0:0]
-s # of segments per section [default:1]
-S sparse mode
-t 0: nodiscard, 1: discard [default:1]
-T timestamps
-w wanted sector size
-z # of sections per zone [default:1]
-V print the version number and exit
sectors: number of sectors [default: determined by device size]

[DouglasSmith]

Another method without having to modify the script.

After completing the build, make_f2fs is on the build environment path.
Just need to pass the build environment PATH to the sudo environment.

Instead of:
$ sudo $MY_ANDROID/device/nxp/common/tools/imx-sdcard-partition.sh -f <soc_name> /dev/sdX

Pass the build environment PATH to the sudo environment:
$ sudo env "PATH=$PATH" $MY_ANDROID/device/nxp/common/tools/imx-sdcard-partition.sh -f <soc_name> /dev/sdX
The script will now find make_f2fs.