[Bug]: armbian-install fails on a Raxda q6a with emmc

[pierg75]

What happened?

When I try to install the armbian system from the SDcard onto the emmc, it keeps failing and the system doesn't boot from the emmc.

How to reproduce?

Use a Raxda Q6A, install armbian on a SDcard and this all works fine.
The install a smallish emmc card (16GB in my case) and try to install the system onto the emmc. It seems to complete but then the system never boot from emmc.

Branch

main (main development branch)

On which host OS are you running the build script and observing this problem?

Debian 13 Trixie

Are you building on Windows WSL2?

• Yes, my Ubuntu/Debian/OtherOS is running on WSL2

Relevant log URL

No response

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[EvilOlaf]

and try to install the system onto the emmc

how?

No response

No logs, no issue

[pierg75]

and try to install the system onto the emmc

how?

Just simply run armbian-install.

No logs, no issue

Sorry, the logs were showing nothing special. I just noticed that there was a mention on the console about "no space left". Adding some debugs to the armbian-install script, I saw that the error was coming from the swapfile creation and that would block the script.
Forcing a much lower fixed size swapfile has worked around it. I can see if I have some leftover logs, but I think they may have been all overwritten.

[EvilOlaf]

Ah well, seems like you figured already. Great.