Jacob Olness

EDIT: I tried using ext4 rather than btrfs and.. somehow that solved it? I don't understand how the SSD file system would change how the bootloader is flashed because if properly flashed, the SD card shouldn't work at all, unless something has changed. 

Hey all, 
I wanted to move to the newest version of armbian (25.2.1) and for whatever reason neither `apt update && apt upgrade` nor `armbian-upgrade` (as a sanity check) worked so I wiped the SPI flash using `mtdtools` as prescribed in the forum post linked on the support page. 
1) Booted from SD, installed Armbian and the bootloader. 
2) Shut down, removed SD and turned on. Machine hung and never booted from NVMe. 
3) Thought somehow I did something wrong or there was an error and used MaskROM mode and `rkdeveloptool` to revert it to boot from SD. 
4) Repeated step 2
5) Still won't boot from NVMe but boots from SD (should have tried this first)
6) Tried reinstalling the bootloader to SPI flash, get this message: 
 
Processing blocks: 394/394 (100%) diff blocks: 0 Done Which reads like the flash is identical to what would is contained in the installer itself so it isn't overwritten.
Wiped again and tried to install bootloader again. Still won't boot from NVMe but boots from SD card normally. 
Also, forgot to include this in my steps: I formatted the NVMe 3 times total and installed/reinstalled Armbian from the `armbian-install` script as a sanity check. 

Have had no issues in the past with any of this (I think I was on 24.11 most recently) so my first thought was a bug in the installer but am not seeing anyone else having this issue so figured I would ask here just to be sure. 

My questions are: 
1) Has anyone else tried to use the installer on 25.2? I can't imagine there were any (much less breaking) changes but I am perplexed at this point. 
2) Is the bootloader file available separately so I can flash it from `rkdeveloptools`
Worst case I can image 24.11 on to the SD and try to install the bootloader that way but again, id be surprised if there were major changes. 

Thanks in advance!