SD card and PSU issues

Would you please recommend a proper tool to burn ISO and XZ image to Micro SD card? I tried ImgBurn but it doesn't work at all.

As in this Armbian forum I am regularly diagnosing power issues. I've answered with this info on a few different posts over the years but I wanted this in one place so my students and the Armbian forum could discuss it. You will read over and over the importance of good power, both in the supply, the cables, and the connection. Anything that causes the voltage to drop below each boards threshold will cause problems that seem to have no explanation. The board may run and appear to be 'working' but operations that draw more power may fail and let the processor continue running. You might think a fully functional board has software failures. It's hair pulling, es…

Since there are a lot of issiues with underpowered boards, this ‘White Paper’ should explain why it’s recommendet to think about the powering situation of your board (especially if it’s powered throught micro USB). Basics: It’s all about Ohm’s Law (eq. 1), your SBC needs a defined voltage (U) and current (I). So the only variable that we can influence is the resistance (R)! The micro USB cable which powers our board acts as resistor between the output of the power source and the input of our board. For the moment, let’s assume our power source delivers a stable Voltage (what isn’t true, depends on current needed) and our cable has fixed resistance (wha…

Hello all! I bought a Rock64 V3 and it wouldn't boot Armbian, not any other GNU/Linux based OS that I tried, I got in touch with Pine64 and they said: >The issue on the SD boot on the ROCK64 SBC is the GPIO0_D6 (SDMMC0_PWREN) default needs to set high instead of lets this pin floating at Linux DT (Device Tree). The ROCK64 V3 has the high speed SD access design which can double boost up with proper software driver. We will advise developer to update the OS build (stock Android already implemented) accordingly. >Please refer to ROCK64 SBC v3.0 Change Notice, http://files.pine64.org/doc/rock64/Rock64%20Ver%203%20change%20notice.pdf …

Some SBCs for which Armbian images are available (supported, wip or csc) can be powered via USB-C. Depending on its implementation, some pitfalls must be considered. This short tutorial should give you an overview. 'Dumb mode': The USB-C connector is used similar to the microUSB connectors in previous SBCs. Means that the pitfalls must be considered when you choose a charger and cable. See the following thread for some background: Additionally, those boards may be problematic with PD compatible chargers. Without a proper PD implementation those PSUs will only deliver up to 900mA at 5V (4.5W). In case you have a board which isn't PD compliant you sh…

Go figure, I haven't had much luck with my Orange Pi Zero after it appeared that attaching the expansion board fragged the motherboard somewhat (see my journey at). The confounding factor was that multiple SD image burns, using WIN32DiskImager, prior to expansion board insertion on the Orange Pi Zero, were fine for about a week of experiments. Immediately expansion board was inserted it all went downhill - literally. Thus, without any other evidence it appeared a hardware frag. Problems like this not seen previously on my microPython, ODROID-W, ODROID-C1, RaspingBreathberry Doodle Pi, BeagleBone Black, BeagleBoard XM - all using WIN3…

Armbian_24.2.1_Orangepizero2_bookworm_current_6.6.16_minimal This is working. Armbian_25.5.1_Orangepizero2_bookworm_current_6.12.23_minimal Armbian_community_26.8.0-trunk.7_Orangepizero2_trixie_current_6.18.41_minimal These two are not taking me to login screen even after waiting for 10 minutes after bootup. It gets stuck at line called starting kernel. I tried to boot multiple times hoping that new versions should be smooth. But it wasn't the case.

I've been looking for ways to fix this all afternoon but I'm giving up. I flash the latest version of the image with BalenaEtcher, it takes about 10 min approximately to boot. I log in I do the setup, and the partition / is only 2GB, I reboot the red light stops flashing and the board stays with a steady green light does not respond to ping. I pull the cable and start in armbian the partition is still the same at 2GB, I check the resize2fs service and it does not start. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, the PSU is working properly, I did a health test to the SD is also OK. I don't know what else to check.

I have a Rock64 I'm using for about 3-4 years. last month November, '24, due to a power failure issue, the Memory card got corrupted and won't boot anymore. I backed up the memory card using win32disk imager to rock64_corrupted.img now if I insert the memory card in a debian 12 machine, then I can see all files. root@debian:~# lsblk sdb 8:16 1 29.8G 0 disk └─sdb1 8:17 1 29.5G 0 part /media/user/ddc95179-99af-4380-b45b-fa41999ac3d0 root@debian:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 29.81 GiB, 32010928128 bytes, 62521344 sectors Disk model: Mass-Storage Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 5…

latest armbian jammy, bananapi-m5, not recognizing wirelless keyboard mouse kit after x startup. This same elcheapo mini keyboard/mouse worked great with previous jammy/xfce4 versions. Any fixes available?. Both keyboard and mouse have sleep functions to save battery's. Also the security check expires long before I could type 20% of the about sentence. Like 20 seconds. Also would not accept w/o tag, only tag is solved, but is not

Hello! Shortform: SDCard recreated from .iso image does not boot. #### Detailed: I use an Odroid as my Minecraft server. I have a fast 32GB card in it, and a usb hdd for swap and media files. After the setup was working, and after each update, I pulled the card from the machine (after shutting down) and plugged it into my PC to make a backup: dd if=/dev/sdc bs=4M | gzip -c >/media/backup/odroid.img.gz In case I ever needed to recreate the card, I have this line to run: gunzip -c /media/backup/odroid.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdc bs=4M /dev/sdc is a placeholder for whichever dri…

hi, I am a newbie using the orange pi 5 board, or any kind like this. I have a boost-up issue, I connect to the power supply and only red light is on (on the board) but when connect the display by HDMI-HDMI or HDMI-typeC, nothing I can see. I am not sure my new board is functioning or not, the problem is, the requirement says this needs 5V4A, but for some reason, my new power supply shipping will come later, so I use 5V2A for test currently, and I am not sure 2A will be able to boost up the board, or at least I can see the startup screen. I will get my 5V4A power next week, but the reason why I want to try with 2A now is because I want to know if …

Hi All, I bought a nice SD to eMMC adapter with a 32GB eMMC module for the orange PI PC. Unfortunately it does not go through first boot. Formatting goes okay, flashing goes okay, booting does not. With Armbian_20.08.1_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.8.5.img.xz image there is no more terminal output after "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.". With the Armbian_20.05.4_Orangepipc_focal_current_5.4.45.img.xz image I had laying around (and have successfully used on this OpiPC on a normal SD card before), this is the terminal output: U-Boot SPL 2020.04-armbian (Jun 15 2020 - 06:08:51 +0200) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 …

Hey, I'm trying to boot Armbian 27 Feb bullseye for Odroid C4 from microSD card and I get dropped to initramfs console because root UUID is not found. I fsck'd the card and it seems okay. Read that I should say to the kernel to wait for root to be found with rootdelay, added a line to armbianEnv.txt to no avail (didn't run any update command, though). What are your thoughts? Any other ideas? Thanks!

Tried a few builds such as https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/202248/Armbian_22.11.0-trunk_Nanopiduo_kinetic_edge_6.0.10.img.xz#nanopiduo and the image doesn't even expand. No heartbeat flaching. Not sure how to troubleshoot this.

Hi there, firstly I selected "Orangepi PC" from the Board dropdown since Orange PI 3 wasn't present (although you have Orange PI 3 images so I assume it's supported ... ) I have wound up with an unbootable board, even though it was initially bootable. I am connecting with an ethernet cable/eth0 and powered via USB using a power brick/charging cable for a Google Pixel. I don't think this is a power issue, because everything was going well, and was stable for quite some time (hours). I was connected initially "headlessly" and later connected an HDMI cable when it failed to reboot (details below). I have tried each of the images list…

Hi, I have 4 FriendlyElec NanoPi Neo 3 boards. Till now they were working fine, but after today 'apt upgrade' none of them boot anymore. I got one connected in debug mode and got this log: => DDR version 1.16 20190528 ID:0x805 N In DDR4 333MHz Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=4 Bank Group=2 Row=16 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=2048MB ddrconfig:14 OUT Boot1 Release Time: May 13 2019 17:34:36, version: 2.50 ChipType = 0x11, 248 mmc2:cmd1,20 emmc reinit mmc2:cmd1,20 emmc reinit mmc2:cmd1,20 SdmmcInit=2 1 mmc0:cmd5,20 SdmmcInit=0 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=30436MB FwPartOffset=2000 , 0 StorageInit ok = 33580 Raw SecureMode = 0 SecureInit read PBA: 0x4…

Hello, we contact you with Odroid booting issues. I've confirmed that the problem occurs from the next boot when the board is powered off while the armbian logo is displayed. (It happens with a high probability.) When booting, the following log is displayed and it does not boot. Loading, please wait... starting version 237 Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Waiting for root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block … done…

Hello, I have downloaded two times Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz and two times i have this result : shasum -a 256 -c Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz.sha Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz: OK shasum: Armbian_21.08.1_Orangepipcplus_buster_current_5.10.60.img.xz: no properly formatted SHA checksum lines found I don't know if it's ok... There is a "OK" but after it seems there is problem "no properly formatted SHA checksum lines found". Someone know if I can use it without problem ? Thanks, Best re…

HiAll, i am new here, and i have a big problem with clone my SD card with armbian image for nanopi neo plus2 H5 image: Armbian Focal mainline based kernel 5.10.y I insert master SD to USB adapter and make sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=XXXX.img bs=4096 for creating image After complete, i change master SD to backup SD and make sudo dd of=/dev/sdb if=XXXX.img bs=4096 for creating backup SD. I got thisdmesg.txt in master SD i have armbianEnv.txtboot.cmdfstab Where i make mistakes?

Hello everyone, First of all, thank you all for making ARM accessible! I have a RockPro64 that only boot legacy kernels... I couldn't find anything specific about it online. Is this something to do with the SPI chip? Do I have to update it with the procedure listed here? https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/blob/master/recipes/flash-spi.md Any tip would be really welcome, I tried most of the ROCKPRO64 images and nothing... only kernel 4.x boot, SD or emmc, no difference. Bellow is one of the error messages I get... the screen flashes different colors and the system halts. Different images, different behaviors... u…

I wanted to setup wifi using the on my Orange PI one. I have a rtlsdr in the regular port and want to mount the Orange Pi in a different room without a wired connection. Is it possible to use the usb otg port for that? I can plug in usb storage drives and they are picked up but not the wifi or rtlsdr are picked up when I plug them in.

I am trying to boot armbian on the Pine64 clusterboard but I cannot get past a 'Starting kernel...' message on the serial console. I am not able to boot either of the images from https://www.armbian.com/sopine-a64/#kernels-archive-all I'm not sure if the serial is just turning off or the system is freezing. It does not connect to my router. Here is the serial output for for 'focal' image. Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Mar 08 2021 - 19:07:13 +0100) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 NOTICE: BL31: v2.4(debug):2c62b00-dirty NOTICE: BL31: Built : 19:07:11, Mar 8 2021 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner A6…

I just ran apt update && apt upgrade on my Tinkerboard S, now it boots to a backtrace and I can't connect to it either. Might a recent update have problems? I have attached a screenshot of the backtrace.

Armbianmonitor http://ix.io/3q6H Hello! I Have this board, y want to use hcitool If i use hcitool dev it response Devices: If i try to use scan hcitool scan Device is not available: No such device Any idea? Thanks!

i have orange pi mini 2 board that fails to go past uboot. i used buster and focal images from here. here is the uboot snippet: U-Boot SPL 2021.04-armbian (May 06 2021 - 18:16:10 +0000) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2021.04-armbian (May 06 2021 - 18:16:10 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi 2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0, mmc@1c10000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110 In: serial@1c28000 Out: serial@1c28000 Err: serial@1c28000 Net: phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 starting USB... Bus usb@1c1b000: nothing happens after this. …

Hello, problem is next: my Orange Pi 3 now can't get IP address from my router. To solve it, I've connected via USB-TTL and on step "login:" it totally stucks and doesn't response for keyboard. What variants do I have, except reinstall OS? :) U-Boot SPL 2020.10-armbian (Feb 04 2021 - 00:24:13 +0100) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.2(debug):a04808c-dirty NOTICE: BL31: Built : 00:24:06, Feb 4 2021 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner H6 SoC (1728) NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0xc07e188, model: OrangePi 3 INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized NOTICE: PMIC: Probing AXP805 NOTICE: PMIC: AXP805 detected INFO: BL31: Platform s…

Hello everyone Just bought a bunch of Orange Pi PC and I'm having issues making them boot properly. The behaviour of the board changes everytime I power it on, sometimes it just shows a black screen, others it stays frozen in the "Starting version 245" (I've waited more than 10 minutes in that screen to see if something happens but nothing) if i get lucky sometimes I get a kernel panic (first image attached), and also one time I got an "unable to handle kernel paging request" (second image attached). So, in short, after working on this for at least 4h I did not get one succesful boot and I don't know what else to try. Also don't know if it's relevant but I never …

I had a NanoPi NEO2 Black lying around with an old (but working) Armbian image on which I decided to wipe and re-flash. As per usual I check my DHCP server to see which IP it is assigned, but it never showed up. At this point I hooked up one of my UART adapters to it after re-flashing the image (Armbian_21.02.1_Nanopineo2black_buster_current_5.10.12.img): INFO: Configuring SPC Controller NOTICE: PMIC: Assuming H5 reference regulator design INFO: BL31: Platform setup done INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for 855873 was applied INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for 1530924 was applied NOTICE: …

I bought a set of Leviton T5632 in-wall USB chargers before I even thought of tinkering with SBCs. The spec sheet says it delivers 3.6A@5V, so I thought it should be enough to power a board and a couple of USB disks. Has anyone used a similar device to power an SBC? I still don't have my device and I don't have a USB power meter at hand, when I have them I'll update this. I bought a set of 3 for about $25 off eBay, so price is decent. Here are some pics of the insides in case anyone is interested.

Just tried to load Armbian Buster on a Cubox-i. Couldn't see it in the network, so tried HDMI. I saw an Armbian logo and a line: uboot 2018-1... Booting the Solid-Run Debian image, works fine. What should I do to get Armbian working?

I tried to flash the above image with Etcher, but the verification failed with error : "Source and Destination checksums do not match: defc7b3b82291e03!==7c2644f965e6fc1f"

I tested this on multiple v1.3 and 1.4 Boards In the boot sequence the message appears. `A start job is running for Bluetooth Rockpi (3min 1s / no limit)` The boot process continue for other tasks but never completes, even after waiting for hours. All boards boot fine with 20.08

Red light on boot and Can't detect via putty serial. But, OPi3 works ok on ubuntu 16.8(green light). Any sollution????

I can't burn a 256GB SD, neither with Etcher nor with dd. With an 8Gb Sd everything works. Thanks

Hi, Hopefully I have posted appropriately, I am completely new to Armbian and orange PI so hopefully this fault is because of my lack of experience. My problem I cannot get my orange pi to boot.. I have tried both supported Armbian Focal and Armbian Buster. They both appear to stop at the same place of boot (wondering if its actually a hardware fault?). Hardware is a Orange Pi Zero H2 (H2 Printed on top of CPU yet CPU reports itself as H3 when booting) the outputs captured via the serial port, the SD is a SANDisk A1 32GB card, the board is powered by a 2A USB wall supply and I also connected an ethernet cable directly to the router. Below is the captu…

Hi, I have RockPro64 board and NVMe drive. This board doesn't support booting from NVMe so I need to have spearate boot partition. Here's my /etc/fstab file (on NVMe filesystem): UUID=645f4a77-3e04-48da-ab41-0de8a81c1c13 /boot ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1 UUID=c94a693a-74df-4e63-a466-2107a287f26a / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime,commit=600,errors=remount-ro 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 In my opinion, it shouldn't work because if /etc/fstab is on a different partition, how can it be mounted? But I heard that initramfs stored on /boot will contain drivers and information necessary to mou…

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I just d/l and installed the above image, does not boot at all! is this for the "Tinker S" otherwise is a kind of joke...

No boot from sd card Armbian_20.05.7_Orangepi4_focal_current_5.4.49.img.xz The Image OrangePi_4_ubuntu_bionic_desktop_linux4.4.179_v1.3.tar.gz is boot normaly. SD card SanDisk Ultra 64G 10class. gdisk p table Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 24576 32767 4.0 MiB 8300 uboot 2 32768 40959 4.0 MiB 8300 trust 3 49152 114687 32.0 MiB 8300 boot 4 376832 124735454 59.3 GiB 8300 rootfs console debug no viewer, but my usb-ttl not support 1500000! Where SD card is new, armbian boot normaly!!!! …

Hello Community, I'm trying to get Armbian running on my Banana PI M1 with the following image: https://dl.armbian.com/bananapi/archive/Armbian_20.05.2_Bananapi_buster_current_5.4.43_minimal.img.xz I flashed the image with Etcher on my SD Card which is a Sandisk Ultra 16GB SDHC Card. After flashing I have inserted the Card into my Banana PI but I only get a red light, I already tried different images like the bionic image but without positive result and tried different power supply cables. In my DHCP Server I see no request. I have also flashed for testing reasons current image of Bananian which was directly working but I don't want to use …

Hello there, I am trying to (first) boot an Orange Pi Zero (H2+, 512MB ram, v1.5) that I received a long time ago but can't get it to start. There are no LEDs turned on, not on the ethernet port nor on the other side (but afaik the latter is software controlled so this does not worry me). Here is what I tried: multiple attempts with Armbian Buster (Armbian_20.05.3_Orangepizero_buster_current_5.4.45.img) burnt with BalenaEtcher, multiple microSD cards, different power supplies (via microUSB and GPIO). Unfortunately, nothing shows up on the serial connection, and 0 amps are drained when 5V is sent to the board. I have little experience wi…

Hello, I'm getting strange erros from my board.. i dunno what else i can do.. i tried many images (focal, buster, bionic..), few different SDs and PSUs.. Always getting error like that: Someone can help pleae? Thanks

Hi, I tried many time with different version of armbian o.s. for orange pi zero plus, but operative system dont want to start.... Work only old version DietPi ... With armbian o.s. , at start, I see orange e green ethernet led ON fixed and nothing other.... Why ?

I cannot verify a gpg signature for your Focal image. It could be my error, of course. But for Buster, all works perfectly by the same methods. Something about the Focal download is different and undocumented, or something is just plain wrong. (Buster and Focal are zipped with different programs. What's up with that?) Yesterday, attempting to verify the Focal image from the main download by similar steps led to a runaway output (symbols, code) in terminal. That scared me. I shut down the virtual machine, then deleted it. Tried again today (below). All done in a fresh virtual machine. Files for checking (.asc, .img) downloaded by wget fr…

Neither versions (Bionic or Buster) imgs available on this site boot up on my Rock Pi 4 board. I've had it for a week. It does with Debian which reports excellent power and it also boots Android 9. Yes I've tried many thoroughly tested SDs. If you haven't personally tried booting these images as they are on your newer Rock Pi 4 board please don't respond to this message.

Hi - My brand new nanopi M4 (2gb) will boot the friendly elec nanopi images just fine, it'll boot to a usable text console with the armbian rockpi minimal image, but none of the supported images (or any unsupported ones) from the armbian nanopi m4 download page will boot or generate video. Same sd card, sufficient power, flashed with etcher just to make sure. What's the best way to root cause/fix this?

Hi guys, maybe you can give an advice. I have setup a NAS with my cubietruck, works like a charm with a single HDD3.5 sata connected. I have an usb hub for two HDD 3., this one: https://www.amazon.it/SALCAR-Docking-ottimizzato-compreso-Aluminum/dp/B01LZFH7NO/ref=sr_1_6?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=salcar&qid=1588877559&sr=8-6 it's a 3.0 usb with external power, it works perfectly on my desktop pc: I can see both the disk, but nothing if connected to cubietruck USB port. It is externally powered up. This is my cubitruk lsusb: root@cubietruck:~# lsusb Bus 004 Device 001:…

Hello, I have a Pi Plus 2e. I want install Armabian. I try write with etcher the image into microsd. But, when I insert microsd, I have only led green on board. Without the microsd, there is Android on the eMMC. Do you have any idea for installarion? Excuse for my English, but I'm Italian..... I try the fel mode. The fel-sdboot write correctly. But I not have any way for install Armbian (Pi Plus 2e not have any led). Thanks for any help.

Hello Folks, Seems like it is very strange behaviour with last Armbian at the OrangePi Prime board. It is continuiusly rebooting after power is on. Green led near the HDMI output is on, then after few seconds board is rebooting (led is off), and again. Board: OrangePi Prime SD Cards (the same results on both): SanDisk Extreme Pro microSDXC Class 10 UHS Class 3 V30 A1 64GB Kingston microSDHC Class 10 8GB Compilation environment: VMware Workstation 14.1.3 with Ubuntu Bionic installed Linux ubuntu-bionic 4.15.0-44-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 14 11:26:59 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Distributor ID: Ubuntu …

Hi to all, I've a problem with my installation of Armbian. Currently i'm using Armbian Bionic on my pine A64 kernel version: Linux pine64 5.4.20-sunxi64 #20.02.1 SMP Mon Feb 17 02:37:37 CET 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux When i attach my external hdd it doesn't show in /dev neither i can find it in the logs; daniele@pine64:~$ lsusb Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub d…

Dear all, My problem: I've tried to Copy my current micro sd card(8go) to another one (32go) Copy with a virtualbox (Ubuntu with the dd command to Copy the first card to the other one) , or with gparted (Copy and past) But with all these methods the problem stay the same = no boot Error message: Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems - Boot args (cat proc/cnd.no) - Check rootdelay (did the system wait long enough?) - Missing modules (cat proc/modules: Is /dev) ALERT UUID-16bb1d19-3ee3-119r-Be32-9920fr7d190a does not exist. Dropping to a shell! (initramfs) I'm not an expert with Linux…

Hi again... Im posting this issue to get some reply about a original sdcard i've used to install armbian to an orange pi device,.. as told before i flashed armbian on it an it just worked fine.. but i need to erase/format now and in any partition type it'snt working.. i've tried this o a windows machine and on a linux machine.. thats it. i couldnt format this 8gb sdcard in any partition type.. (on a windows machine i've got a warning concerning its protected, but on a linux machine no warnings just doesnt work).. Can someone tell me how to format this sdcard?.. (there is armbiaN for orangepi win plus on it).. Thx a lot..

This is AWESOME. I was using the regular pineh64 images, and most things were working except my NIC kept shutting off about 33-34s after boot every time. Turns out, if I use the pineh64-b image, my gigabit link stays active and everything seems to be pretty great! My only issue now is that booting with a USB3 SSD attached directly to the device seems not to work very well. Maybe the SSD is trying to pull too much power at boot? It worked fine when I plugged it in directly after the system was booted from microSD, but cold boots always fail with direct attachment. It's booting 100% reliably for me with my rootfs on SSD if I attach the SSD to a power…

im working on an embedded system, but i have a problem with random reboot, my orange pi zero, works well but sometimes it restarts for no apparent reason, it's not a problem with my script because it happens even without the script working, problem can it be my sd card or power suply, or something?

Hi, I'm proud owner of an ODROID XU4 REV 0.1 20180912 and would like to use your latest Image. Here are the steps I have done on my Win 10 - 1803 PC: Downloading your image file from your site Unpacking with 7zip to .img Starting Etcher Portable 1.5.63 Select the .img file Connect my eMMC card (16GB) to my CardReader This card is auto-selected by Etcher as Target device Click on Flash Etcher tranfers the image to the eMMC card and then validates it. When ready i close Etcher, remove the card safely from my PC and put it onto my ODROID-XU4 I connect only a LAN cable and a power cable to th…

orange pi one I was installing armbian buster. Then decided to abort the installation and turned off power. If I install armbian on a sd card and then put the sd card into the orange pi one, the orange pi one keeps rebooting and display message boot. env file invalid elf header rebooting. Is the orange pi garbage? Can I reset the orange pi one? Thank you.

Hi, I'm having issues with an unreliable HW watchdog on the Orange Pi Zero. I am using the standard Armbian kernels (tried 4.19.62, 5.3.x, 5.4.x - all the same) and have nowayout=1: [ 4.328286] sunxi-wdt 1c20ca0.watchdog: Watchdog enabled (timeout=16 sec, nowayout=1) I'm feeding /dev/watchdog every 2 seconds. Superficially it works, for example, if I do the following the WD triggers after 16 sec and the board reboots: echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger However I am finding that in other crash scenarios, the WD reboot sometimes happens and sometimes does not. For example, with a forkbomb :(){ :|:& };: about 70% of th…

I just update my device and rebooted. It now is in "read only" mode. How do I fix that? root@renegade:/home/nifd# touch test.txt touch: cannot touch 'test.txt': Read-only file system Linux renegade 4.4.178-rockchip64 #4 SMP Wed May 8 19:34:01 CEST 2019 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Hi I have been able to use armbian (Stretch) on the Cubox-i well. But I tried to use the Buster images, and I get the same problem for all of them. The initial display starts up, I get about 10 lines of output, and then the screen goes blank. On the router, I don't see the board, so I don't think that I can ssh in. (It's being used as a headless server, but I need to a display or SSH to fix it). Any ideas why buster wouldn't work but stretch is OK ? I could just go back to stretch, if necessary. By the way, is there a link to download the armbian stretch images ?

I have several Orange Pi One and Orange Pi PC boards (the original ones, H3-based). I have downloaded the latest Armbian release for them Armbian_5.91_Orangepipc_Debian_buster_next_4.19.59 and imaged several SD cards in Linux with dd. The cards are all class 10, some are Sandisk and some are Samsung. I am using a 2.5A power supply for the boards. For all the boards and all the SD cards I get the same result. U-boot starts, gets to the point of loading the kernel, clears the screen then displays "Loading, please wait" then "Starting version 241" and stalls there. Nothing else happens no matter how long I wait. If I power the board off and then back on, the same…

I have a nanopc t4 and I make armbian buster booteble and it takes a few second and then the screen goes on and I wait a 1 hour and noting is going happening he does nothing IMG_0222.MOV

My BPi M1 board is working fine, but the old bananalinux is no longer updating. So I downloaded Armbian Bionic mainline image as it is supported. However, after I boot it up, I get no HDMI video signal. I know that the BPi is working as I can see its IP address on my router and ping it. Any suggestions? Try a different image? Build my own? Thank you in advance for helping.

[13677.938894] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fff00010 [13678.025402] pgd = 4cb4f804 [13678.057789] [fff00010] *pgd=4fffd861, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000 [13678.132839] Internal error: Oops: 37 [#1] SMP THUMB2 [13678.192234] Modules linked in: tun nft_chain_nat_ipv4 ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat xt_multiport xt_state nft_limit xt_limit xt_tcpudp xt_conntrack ip_tables nft_compat x_tables nf_conntrack_ftp nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nft_counter nf_tables nfnetlink usb_f_acm u_serial g_serial libcomposite 8189es sun8i_codec_analog cfg80211 sun4i_i2s snd_soc_simple_card sun8i_adda_pr_regmap snd_soc_simple_card_utils cdc_ether l…

Board ran fine when I did initial setup outside the case with no disks or fans connected, was able to SSH in fine. After assembling the case and plugging in all the disks and OLED display the board will only boot whilst the serial console is connected. Without it dumps to the initramfs prompt. Once booted the board runs fine, until I disconnect the serial console cable then anything running from memory is fine, but any access to the linux system on the SD card throws IO errors. On replugging the serial console cable I see more SD read/write errors. Regards, Martin

Hi, I have flashed the latest version 4.19.y of Armbian Buster to my SD card using Etcher. After putting it into my OrangePi One, the system boots until the message "Loading Ramdisk to 49a3b000, end 49fffdba ... Sometimes the system is stuck even before. I have tried different SD cards and different card readers as well - also a new one. 2A power supply.

Hello, Can you explain me why this screen appears when the board shutdown and how to reset the default configuration ? It is new and i don't understand chinese

Espressobin V7 1G 800MHz DDR4 RAM 1GHz cpu purchased last week. The board starts up reliably and gets to the boot prompt ok (using minicom). I downloaded and unpacked Armbian_5.91_Espressobin_Debian_buster_next_4.19.59.img. Ran shasum and got "Ok". I dd'd it to a new Samsung SD card, dd'd it back, and ran shasum again, getting "Ok". I put the card in the board and powered it up. It finds the card and tries to boot but fails, saying: Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Failed to mount ext2 filesystem... ** Unrecognized filesystem type ** Failed to mount ext2 filesy…

On my cubietruck I have tried the Armbian_5.75_Cubietruck_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.20. For me it looks that u-boot loads the files, but the kernel will/can not start. Attached the output from the console. Rarly I get some additional output on the console like "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel." but nothing happens, or some wild output from wrong instructions which leads to a reset. I have also tried "Armbian_5.59_Cubietruck_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop" to exclude some mainline / legacy kernel issues. But no luck. With some older versions (e.g. 5.20) I have no luck also. From my feeling there is a basic thing, may be: timi…

Hi all, Downloaded it from here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/ https://dl.armbian.com/orangepizero/archive/Armbian_5.83_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.38.7z Wrote it to a 16GB MicroSD using rufus. . I'm going to be supporting this remotely (long story!!) but before mailing the SDCard to my tech at the other end, I noticed the partition is only 1GB in size. Is this normal? Will Armbian 'extract' or re-size the partition as part of the first install / boot process?

Hello, my Banana Pie wont start after i plugged in an USB HDD with external power supply. Can you give me a hint please?

hi guys, literally i'm new to orange pi and as well as here on armbian. like days old. I managed to run and use the usb device in rpi3b+ but was unable to on orange pi. now i know that this is a driver issue. can someone show me how to download and install the driver on my opi pc? TIA Cam

Ordered Orange Pi Win Plus from official Orange Pi store, it came with bundled PSU. I always get different errors when latest (by post date) linux Armbian starts and sometimes it starts correctly. I read this forum carefully and found out this is shitty PSU symptoms, so I took 20 Amps ampermeter and short-circuit PSU through it for 2 seconds, display stopped counting at 1.42 Amps. It is below specs where literally 2 Amps is required! Besides this I measured voltage and current near board PSU outlet, I got max current it eats through boot process is 0.54 Amps and voltage falls max to 5.32 Volts. Seems like PSU must fit this board but I s…

I noticed that with Nanopi NEO v1.2 the fixup.src is not loaded at startup, but after some googling i noticed that other boards with h3 chip succesfully load the correct fixup. My boot log: U-Boot SPL 2018.11-armbian (Feb 08 2019 - 11:04:44 +0100) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2018.11-armbian (Feb 08 2019 - 11:04:44 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /boot/boot.env ** ** Unable to read "/boot/boot.env" from mmc0:1 ** In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: …

What i have so far: 1 sd card, with Armbian Bionic image, flashed with Etcher 2 Orange Pi PC connected to PC through usb to serial converter And my problem is: Orange pi pc tries to boot for few times and stuck log from putty: Spoiler =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2019.05.12 12:00:43 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= U-Boot SPL 2019.04-armbian (May 04 2019 - 02:06:03 +0200) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2019.04-armbian (May 04 2019 - 02:06:03 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000…

Hello, there I have got three device`s in one room; Image`s for this three device`s was burned to ssd card`s on this week (at 17.04.2019) Today, in the same time (Apr 21 06:47:03) they all fall down with same error (form syslog): Apr 21 06:20:52 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities... Apr 21 06:20:52 localhost systemd[1]: Started Daily apt upgrade and clean activities. Apr 21 06:25:01 localhost CRON[8132]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1) Apr 21 06:25:01 localhost CRON[8131]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )) …

Usage of /: 100% of 15G Last login: Sat Mar 30 13:41:33 2019 from 192.168.1.238 root@Ender3:~# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 184064 0 184064 0% /dev tmpfs 50508 2812 47696 6% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 14696736 14483996 37088 100% / tmpfs 252532 0 252532 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 252532 0 252532 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 252532 4 252528 1% /tmp /dev/zram0 49584 31828 14172 70% /var/log tmpfs 50504 0 …

I am use a phone charger to power my Orange pi lite and u-boot show freeze in "dram". Is phone charger the problem? Or other thing Edit: Now I am using a opi lite 5v 3a for powering and the same

Good afternoon, I am seeking advice on cooling my Orange Pi R1, it seems to overheat after about 6 hours of idel even with a heatsink on it. Currently i have a desk fan moving air around it and it holding around 31c with ambient room temperature around 25c. The device is just running a network bridge, pihole, and vnstat (hourly). CPU is on average 1-3% and memory use is 53%. Touching the device it is hard as it is physically hot. The USB hat is not installed. Any ideas?

HI there .I am facing issues regarding installing the latest image (Ubuntu Bionic ) for Orange Pi One . The normal boot procedure involving u-boot fails as the board attempts to boot from the network . The u-boot console says no fdt found . This is the console log of the boot process . U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Jan 09 2019 - 19:39:57 +0100) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2018.05-armbian (Jan 09 2019 - 19:39:57 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi One DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /boot/boot.env ** ** Unable to read "/boot/boot.env" from mmc0…

I'm trying to boot a Banana Pi M2U that I know is not supported, but I cannot make it even start booting with a SD Card. Let me explain. If I use the MFR Debian, image I flash the card and can boot. Another thing is the botched job the image is, that even no init is well done and at the end, the official Debian build ends failing and locking the board or entering in an eternal reboot with some kernel panics in between. Then I tried Armbian. I downloaded an unsupported image for my board flash it (with balenaEtcher, as recommended) but the board does not boot. A normal boot means a red led, blue and green on. In this case only red one.…

I've got an OPi Zero v1.1 for a home project, It was supposed to be something very simple, connect the board to wifi, make a web app for external control and switch a power relay, I did finished it and everything was working fine but I had sudden disconnections and one day just didn't wanted to reconnect, I've read before about how this board has an horrible wifi chip and trying to avoid further headaches I went and bought an USB WiFi dongle TP-LINK_TL-WN725N, I got it today and connected it to the board using its 13 pin header, then I powered it on via micro usb and worked right out the box, no need for extra config, to finish it off I rewired it to this little box where…

Hi all, I beginner for OPZero, i followed steps and boot my device with Armbian 5.59 Ubuntu Bionic. It's running first boot no problem, i did login to ubuntu with serial, SSH, and some processes install armbianmonitor and connected port:8888 no problem but i did restart device, its no working. I plug TTL-usb and view serial monitor and this results: https://www.copypaste.io/detail?id=1538899137 U-Boot SPL 2018.05-armbian (Aug 21 2018 - 21:44:47 +0200) DRAM: 512 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2018.05-armbian (Aug 21 2018 - 21:44:47 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi Zero DRAM: 512 MiB MMC: SUNXI …

Hi, some times ago I installed an Orange PI with armbian-5.31 (stable, kernel 3.4.113). Now I needed to upgrade some installed packages, but when I run apt-get upgrade at some point the process interrupts and the system reboots. Now I have an interrupted upgrade process, and each time I try to restart this process with sudo dpkg --configure -a the system try to upgrade the policykit-1, it reboots. Looking at messages or syslog I don't find any particular error. Any suggestion where to look for this problem ? Watchdog process could be responsible for such reboots ? Thanks in advance for any suggestion

Tested new versions ARMbian Server 5.59 Kernel 4.14 in OPI + 2. Armbian Bionic: It starts but hangs when opening kernel. Armbian Stretch: It works but I have not been able to change locales or keyboard language. armbian-config does not perform its function. UN saludo.

I'm a little out of ideas what is rong ? My OPiPC is functioning well with all 12v 19v and 24v + converter to 5v but OPi+2E sometimes flickers red led, one time functioned but mostly dosen't. Clearly I'm using methode 2 https://de.aliexpress.com/item/Hot-POE-Cable-Passive-Power-Over-Ethernet-Adapter-Cable-POE-Splitter-Injector-Power-Supply-Module-12/32695459204.html? https://de.aliexpress.com/item/New-Banana-Pi-M2-USB-Switch-Cable-USB-Wire-To-DC-Port-Charging-Switch-Cable-For/32521915580.html? https://de.aliexpress.com/item/Fine-6-24V-12V-24V-to-5V-3A-CAR-USB-Charger-Module-DC-Buck-step-down/32807024340.html? https://de.aliexpres…

Hello to you all! I've been running Armbian on H3 board (Orang Pi One) for some time now, with occasional problems that have been resolved one way or another. When I say 'another', I mean by writing image again to sd card, when it gets corrupted somehow. I've been there 3 or 4 times in more than a year. I don't know if it happens because of power loss or whatever, never been able to troubleshoot it and get it back up. I thought I had a similar situation a few days ago, but when I connected to serial, I noticed that it boots, but can't start network interface. I get the following message when ifup eth0: /bin/ip: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib…

Hello everybody! I have an Orange Pi Win Plus and I'm trying to boot the current stable release of the Armbian Xenial but I get no video output on the hdmi and sometimes the board turns itself off. I've tried both server and desktop versions but the issue remains. My current setup: 5.01V@2.0A PSU; Usb mouse and keyboard; Used Etcher to burn the images on the sd card; Tried to boot using 2 different sd cards, both 8gb, the result is the same; Tested images are Armbian_5.41_Orangepiwin_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.10.107_desktop.img and Armbian_5.41_Orangepiwin_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.10.107.img The console output on the ttl port shows this: …

I was faced with a very weird erroneous behavior. The distribution and board are the same. the board is 4GB. the oddity is in that apt-get cannot do anything complaining that it is "unable to parse package list file" /var/lib/apt/armbian.com_dists_InRelease. sorry the name of the file could be written not 100% precise, but you probably get what the file is. You know what I found inside the file where looked into it? In the middle of it there were some bullshit network configuration related and inserted by NetworkManager (there was a comment inside - "inserted/merged by network manager")! I very doubt it is normal. Removing that didn't help, because…

Hi, if I want install any package (try mc, kodi) get this error: root@cubieboard2:~# sudo apt-get install mc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libssh2-1 mc-data Suggested packages: arj catdvi | texlive-binaries dbview djvulibre-bin genisoimage gv links | w3m | lynx odt2txt python-boto python-tz xpdf | pdf-viewer zip The following NEW packages will be installed: libssh2-1 mc mc-data 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,676 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,817 kB of additional disk space will be u…

Just came across this Might be useful for developers Improved Optimization/speed and wear leveling of software on SD Cards https://lwn.net/Articles/428584/ It's an older report...but it might help since devices are getting bigger and the need to keep the cards alive longer is getting more and more important My take on the document is that 4MB blocks or when writing the image Write to SD card using Linux: - Find the device (eg: /dev/sdb1) you need to write to by using blkid or mount. - Double check that you have the correct dev path for your SD card (eg: /dev/sdb1). - Unmount the SD card and all its partitions by using umount /dev/sdb?. - Write…

Something happened to my armbian, I executed rather simple find --execute grep ... troughout the whole sd card, it froze and will not boot any more .. attached a hdmi display (orangepi one is the board in question) and I see it boots the kernel and then just "rebooting..." and reboots and does that in a loop... on a normal linux running grub bootloader I'd stop the boot and add "single" to the kernel parameters, it will ignore all the boot scripts and after booting the kernel would drop me directly into shell as root so I can investigate wth is going on... anything similar I can do to armbian?

Hello, I've try several version of armbian (stable, testing, debian, ubuntu) but I stopped at the same point : U-boot 2017.09-armbian (Nov 22 2017 - 16:49:59 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H3 (SUN8I 1680) Model: Xunlong Orange Pi PC Plus DRAM : 1GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0, SUNXI SD/MMC: 1 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In : serial Out: vidconsole Err: vidconsole Net : phy interface0 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 With ethernet or without : no change With keybord, the five last lines aren't here Doesn't understand what this mean.

Hi, I have 3 Odroid HC1. All have a 2TB SATA disk attached. I am using Armbian_5.35_Odroidxu4_Ubuntu_xenial_next_4.9.61.img, and the armbian-config to copy the rootfs to the SATA disk. I have used ext4 and btrfs. Actually used btrfs from the start, but I got some weird error after running the HC1 for a couple of days, so that my open command, would return -bash: /sbin/blkid: Input/output error on any input. This is just an example. Didn't really know what was going on, I rebooted, and then could not login through ssh anymore. I assume rootfs gone, and reinstalled the HC1 again, copied over rootfs with armbian-config using btrfs. Few days later I had the same i…

I have Armbian (headless/server edition, no GUI) booting nicely on an OrangePi. I got the IP address from my router and SSH'd into the Pi with success. When I log in, I am asked to change the password. After I do, I receive no error message or indication that the password changed, I am simply logged out. When I reconnect, the password is back to the default of 1234 and it asks me to change the password. I'm stuck in this loop. How do I change the password and get it to save?

Hi, I am trying to boot up my OP1 with debian jessie and ubuntu images but both of them are not booting. If I attach a USB drive and it has the same image written on it as on SD Card then it boots from USB drive. Am I missing something? Plz Help. I got JPEGs of the screen when it tries to boot but fails with error but I cannot manage to upload them. Thanks

Just for information (i know there is no support): under heavy load i have such error (for 3 times on different re-runs) Spoiler [76957.139777] monerod[1798]: undefined instruction: pc=000000000054a3e0 [76957.139788] Code: 00942f40 00000000 00000402 00001c60 (00000000) [76988.126797] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 uas_eh_abort_handler 0 uas-tag 2 inflight: IN [76988.126811] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#1 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 03 00 08 18 00 00 08 00 [76988.130108] scsi host0: uas_eh_device_reset_handler start [76988.254794] usb 4-1: reset high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-platform [76…

Hi! I have some troubles with my OPI. I was install Armbian on the microSd (black SanDisk 16gb class 10) with Rufus. After insert card into OPI and connect HDMI and power cable on screen i have next: U-Boot 2017.09-armbian (Now 20 2017 - 02:47:53 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H5 (SUN50I) Model: OrangePi PC 2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: vidconsole Err: vidconsole Net: phy interface7 eth0: ethernet@1c30000 230454 bytes read in 151 ms (1.5 MiB/s) There is no valid bmp file at the given address starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 Autoboot in 1 seconds…

Allthough I know that this was discussed several times I didn't get a satisfying answer. I checked both with cfdisk with that result of emmc: gpt: Festplatte: /dev/sdc Größe: 14,7 GiB, 15758000128 Bytes, 30777344 Sektoren Bezeichner: gpt, Identifikator: 2953EEFC-99A8-443F-8AA2-F17BC4D94878 Gerät Anfang Ende Sektoren Größe Typ >> Freier Bereich 2048 30777343 30775296 14,7G dos: Festplatte: /dev/sdc …

I tried the Armbian_5.34.171119_Bananapi_Debian_stretch_next_4.13.13: it seems to have problems, when using an usb hub. Connected when booting after showing the login it seems to have a power loss. Connecting the hub after login it take some time and then the same: the BananaPi is complete off. I already checked the cables an power supply.