nuc8i7hvk booting: "mmc0: Unknown controller version(3)"

[jareilly]

I followed the Intel instructions for updating BIOS to install Linux to my:

• nuc8i7hvk
• Crucial CT16G4SFD824A 32GB (16GB x2)
• Samsung MZ-V7P512BW SSD 970 PRO 512 GB M.2 

It re-booted and ran Ubuntu correctly once. But now on second reboot I am getting problems. I now get this during boot.

"mmc0: Unknown controller version(3). You may experience problems."

Any suggestions how to proceed. I seem stuck at the moment.

[LeonWaksman]

Enter Bios settings Advanced > Boot > Secure Boot and verify that Secure Boot is disabled. If enabled uncheck it and press F10, confirmed by "Y" to save settings and exit to O.S.

Leon

[n_scott_pearson]

You are using Ubuntu 18.10 or newer, right? I have heard that older versions (16.x) have bugs that can cause issues in UEFI support - like spurious entries in boot table.

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[jareilly]

Thanks for the tips! Yes secure boot was disabled.

I reverted back to the original 16.04 image and then finally it booted ok without this mmc error, but display colors were reversed on my display via HDMI (any HDMI port).

I finally figured a way to get that back to normal, and I will have to try installing 18.04 again some other day.

It's been a bit of a bear trying to install 18.x to this...

Thanks!

[n_scott_pearson · Accepted solution]

Check out this article: Intel's Hades Canyon and Ubuntu 18.10 are Perfect Together.

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[jareilly]

Wow, super!!! I have been floundering a bit through the instructions it came with, Intel search, ubuntuforums, google search.. with a variety of different posts that were roughly the same but didnt quite work. This looks like exactly what I needed!

[jareilly]

I normally stick to Ubuntu LTS, thanks for this 18.10 pointer: great to see this got supported nicely there! If I leave Ubuntu LTS, I may then go to 19.04 to see how well it does.

[jareilly]

I am giving 19.04 a go...

It is looking good so far...

[n_scott_pearson]

If you get it working, respond and let us know. While you are at it, it will help others if you detail the changes in steps necessary to make it work.

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[LeonWaksman]

You may try the following:

1. In Bios - enable the Security Boot and check Clear Secure Boot Data. Press F10 followed by "Y".
2. Enter Bios again and disable Secure Boot. Press F10 followed by "Y".

Leon

[jareilly]

Intel NUC8i7HVK / Ubuntu 19.04

I do have Ubuntu 19.04 running now. My road there was a bit circuitous.

For completeness, this is what I did:

• F7 method to install BIOS from a USB stick. I followed: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2400400
  • I wasn't able to use kernel 4.18 or 4.19 following those steps. There was an un-resolved dependency issue for libssl1.1.
  • I used Kernel 4.15.0 instead
• Update to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: From booted / running Ubuntu 16.04 :
  • Change Software & Updates / Updates / Notify me of a new Ubuntu version => For Long-term support versions
  • CLI: 'update-manager -c"
  • Update to Ubuntu 18.04
• Realize that Ubuntu 18.10 looks golden from this Intel Community thread. Thanks!
• Update to Ubuntu 19.04: From updated / running Ubuntu 18.04 of last step:
  • Change Software & Updates / Updates / Notify me of a new Ubuntu version => For any new version (instead of LTS)
  • CLI: 'update-manager -c"
  • Update to Ubuntu 19.04

19.04 is working nicely for me so far.

I hope this helps some future reader who finds this thread from Googling :).

[jareilly]

I also replaced kernel v4.15.0 with v5.2.8 now and so far so good.

Steps using ukuu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt-get install ukuu-gtk

ukuu-gtk

=> install v5.2.8

=> reboot with F2 to make sure "Secure Boot" is disabled, else you may get "kernel xxx has invalid signature" from grub during reboot. I guess upstream versions like this don't have signatures?

After reboot: 'uname -a' to check kernel version.

It looks excellent now.

[Hans_Bausewein]

Hello,

I've found these messages looking for the error message reported while booting.

See Installing Debian On Intel NUC8i7HVK2 for my experience with the NUC8i7HVK2.

Maybe the issue is resolved? Or I just have not tried enough, yet.

Also verified on Linux Mint 20.1

Hans