OK, UART hooked up and as soon as I did that, the boot loops stopped and its now booting fine. It expanded the drive and all. I removed the UART and tried again, it's still booting. I reflashed another SD card, this time it worked fine with no UART attached. I do note that the screen stays black for this entire process so it's hard to know what's going on there but that was NOT the issue I was having. Either way, the build is indeed working. I also went back and tested the community again; it's working too.
Its almost like plugging in the UART just fixed everything. I thought maybe I had something underneath shorting it out but that can't be as I was moving it all around every time I swapped the SD Card. I'm quite perplexed as to what was going on...
I apologize I don't have any more information that this. It's working fine now, every image. I probably didn't even need to containerize the build either but no matter. If it starts happening again, I now have my UART-USB on the ready and I'll post an update.
UPDATE: PROBLEM SOLVED! (somewhat)
I swapped the KB and Mouse USB ports around, apparently this fixed it. I moved everything around and plugged things back in, I knew the mouse was on the top BLUE outer USB port before, but this time (and apparently last) I had the KB in the top outer USB and mouse in the bottom (white). This clearly is causing the Unhandled exception: Load access fault somehow.
Here's the log:
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U-Boot SPL 2022.10_armbian-2022.10-Sd61c-P90a0-H4e64-Vc38c-B5da4-R448a (Jul 24 2026 - 17:38:47 +0000)
[ 0.310] DDR type LPDDR4X
[ 0.312] set ddr tx odt to 80ohm!
[ 0.326] lpddr silicon init consume 14ms
[ 0.326] Change DDR data rate to 2400MT/s
[ 0.569] Boot from fit configuration x1_orangepi-rv2
[ 0.571] ## Checking hash(es) for config conf_18 ... OK
[ 0.577] ## Checking hash(es) for Image uboot ... crc32+ OK
[ 0.588] ## Checking hash(es) for Image fdt_18 ... crc32+ OK
� 0.610] ## Checking hash(es) for config config_1 ... OK
� 0.613] ## Checking hash(es) for �mage opensbi ... crc32+ OK
[ 0.657]
U-Boot 2022.10_armbian-2022.10-Sd63c-P90a0-H4e64-Vc38c-B5da4-R448a (Jul 24 2026 - 17:38:47 +0000)
[ 0.664] CPU: rv64imafdcv
[ 0.667] Model: ky x1 orangepi-rv2 board
[ 0.670] DRAM: DDR size = 8592 MB
[ 0.674] 8 GiB
[ 0.718] reset driver probe start
[ 0.720] reset driver probe finish
[ 0.742] Core: 414 devices, 29 uclasses, devicetree: board
[ 0.755] WDT: Started PMIC_WDT with servicing (6ps timeout)
[ 0.759] WDT: Started watchdog@D4080000 with servicing (60s timeout)
[ 0.768] MMC: sdh@d4280000: probe done.
[ 0.773] sdh@d4281000: probe done.
[ 0.773] sdh@d4280000: 0, sdh@d4281000: 2
[ 0.778] Loading Environment from MMC... *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
[ 0.882] initialize_console_log_buffer
[ 0.883] Have allocated memory for console log buffer
[ 0.888] In: serial
[ 0.890] Out: serial
[ 0.892] Err: serial
[ 0.896] Default to 100kHz
[ 1.013] Found 2 valid MAC addresses.
[ 1.014] TLV item: product_name = x1_orangepi-rv2
[ 1.018] TLV item: ddr_cs_num = 2
[ 1.025] Found �evice 'hdmi@c0400500', disp_uc_priv=000000007dea6b80
[ 1.033] hdmi_ply_wait_for_hpd() hdmi get hpd signal
[ 1.035] fb=7f700000, size=1920x1080
[ 1.046] All buttons probed successfully
[ 1.050� k1x_qspi$spi@d420c000: qspi iobase:0x0x00000000d420c000, ahb_addr:0x0x00000000b8000000, max_hz:26502000Hz
[ 1.058] k1x_qspi spi@d420c000: rx buf size:128, tx buf size:256, ahb cuf size=512
[ 1.065] k1x_qspi spi@d420c000: AHB read enabled
[ 1.070] k1x_qspi spi@d420c000: bus clock; 26500000Hz, PMUap reg[0xd4282860]:0x0000075b
[ 1.078] k1x_qspi spi@t420c000: AHB buf size: 512
[ 1.082] SF: Detected XM25QU128C with page size 256 Bytes, erase sizm 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
List of MTD devices:
[ 1.092] * nor0
[ 1.094] - device: flash@0
[ 1.097] - parent: spi@d420c000
[ 1.100] - driver: jedec_spi_nor
[ 1.104] - path: /soc/spi@d420c000/flash@0
[ 1.107] - type: NOR flash
[ 1.110] - block size: 0x10000 bytes
[ 1.114] - min I/O: 0x1 bytes
[ 1.117] - 0x000000000000-0x000001000000 : "nor0"
[ 1.122] - 0x020000000000-8x000000010000 : "bootinfo"
[ 1.127] - 0x000000010000-0x000000020000 : "private"
[ 1.132] - 0x000000020000-0x000000060000 : "fsbl"
[ 1.137] - 0x000000060000-0x008000070000 : "env"
[ 1.142] - 0x000000070000-0x0000000a0000 : "opensbi"
[ 1.147] -`0x0000000a0000-0x000001000000 : "uboot"
[ 1.153] Read PMIC reg ab value f4
[ 1.155] Failed to get fastboot key config: -19
[ 1.159] Net flash mode not enabled
[ 1.163] Failed to probe HuSB239:$-19
[ 1.166] Continue to boot
[ 1.170] RGMII interface
[ 1.171] eth0: ethurnetBcac80000
[ 1.174] MAC mapping file path not set in environment
[ 1.179] K1X: :_load_env_from_blk
[ 1.200] Failed to load 'en~_k1-x.txt'
[ 1.201] Net: eth0: ethernet@cac80000
[ 1.206] Hit any key to0stor autoboot: 0
Loading K1 environment
[ 2.212]
[ 2.213] starting USB...
[ 2.216] Bus ehci1@c0980100: ehci_k1x_ci ehci1@c0980100: ehci_mv_probe Enter ...
[ $ 2.225] mv_usb_phy usbphy1@c09c0000: k1x-ci-usb-phy-probe: Enter...
[ 2.230] ehci_k1x_ci ehci1@c0980100: ehci-k1x-ci: init hccr c0980100 and hcor c0980140 hc_length 64
[ 2.253] USB EHCI 1.00
[ 2.253] Bus dwc3@c0a00000: No USB maxi}um speed specified. Using super speed
[ 2.264] mv_usb_phy usb2phy@0xc0a30000: k1x-ci-usb-phy-probe: Enter...
[ 2.267] k1x_combphy phy@c0b10000: USB3 PHY init.
[ 2.272] dwc3-generic-host dwc3@c0a00000: this is a DesignWare USB3 DRD Core
[ 2.289] Register 2000140 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
[ 2.291] USB XHCI 1.10
[ 2.294] scanning bus ehci1@c0980100 for devices... devnuo=1 poweron: query_delay=100 connect_timeout=1100
[ 2.334] start port scanJ[ 3.432] 1 USB Device(s) found
[ 3.432] scanning bus dwc3@c0a00000 for devices... devnum=1 poweron: query_delay=100 connect_timeout=1100
[ 3.459] start port scan
[ 3.808] devnum=2$poweron:`query_delay=100 connect_timeout=1100
[ 3.855] devnum=3 poweron: query_delay=500 connect_timeout=1100
[ " 4.010] Unhandled exception: Load access fault
[ 4.001] EPC: 000000007ef4a0a2 RA: 000000027ef4a2be TVAL: 0000000000000000
[ 4.008] EPC: 00000000002aa0a2 RA: 00000000002aa2be reloc adjusted
[ 4.014]
Code: 00b7 8082 c399 0505 bfcd 4501 8082 87ea`(c703 0007)
[ 4.021]
@sven-ola Thanks again. 🍻