I have a big problem with the latest Armbian images, the problem not only persists with the latest versions, with the previous one the same thing happened to me with the old Ubuntu images, it works without problems with the old kernel, I have a video published with the problem since it works but at certain times the device turns off and does not turn on a single LED light until I reconnect it, I thought it was a problem with the power supply but not with the old Ubuntu images it works and even with the game emulators of the lakka-tv image, so I came to the conclusion that the hardware is in good condition, therefore check what the fault could be because the computer usually turns off. I leave the link of the video it is in Spanish, sorry .

 

 

HARDWARE: Banana Pi M1

 

 

Edited April 26, 20251 yr by Danubio Rodriguez

What SD card are you using? I don't believe the A20 is up to the task of running a modern desktop. It could still be a power issue if indeed no LEDs are on at all. Does the device turn off happen randomly or when the Banana Pi M1 power down when under high load? I'd advise getting a USB to Serial adapter to get a better idea of what is happening on the board.

 

Best of luck

 

Ryzer

The SD card problem is ruled out since I tested another system on the same card and there is no problem it works perfectly example image, 2022-04-17-ubuntu-16.04-mate-desktop-mpv-1080p-bpi-m1-m1p-r1-sd-emmc.img . Other systems like lakkaTv also work, I tried with several USB power adapters and it only generates problems with modern versions of Armbian

 

I used this image as base and from there did in-place full-upgrade:

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root@banlipi:/etc# ls -al armbian-image-release ; cat armbian-image-release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 614 Dec 21  2023 armbian-image-release
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=bananapi
BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi"
BOARDFAMILY=sun7i
BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build
BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=014eb55b5b
LINUXFAMILY=sunxi
ARCH=arm
IMAGE_TYPE=stable
BOARD_TYPE=csc
INITRD_ARCH=arm
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage
FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE=
VENDOR="Armbian"
VENDORDOCS="https://docs.armbian.com"
VENDORURL="https://www.armbian.com/"
VENDORSUPPORT="https://forum.armbian.com"
VENDORBUGS="https://www.armbian.com/bugs"
BOOTSCRIPT_FORCE_UPDATE="no"
BOOTSCRIPT_DST="boot.cmd"
VERSION=23.11.1
REVISION=23.11.1
IMAGE_UUID=7d21fc32-1594-4ee0-9a88-6e688d0b3350

It used to lock-up with a kernel crash after 2 - 3 days, kernel 6.6.44 till 6.6.75. I have no HDMI connected anymore, only serial console cable, SD-card, microUSB power, RJ45 and SATA 8T HDD.

Now with kernel 6.12.20-current-sunxi uptime already 6 days.

I have radically modified partition setup, use Btrfs for rootfs, I do not use Armbian initial repartition scripts, that seems to be the point where your M1 fails. You need serial console cable and post clear text output where it fail. Still then, it might be too complicated to or time consuming fix.

You could prepare/create/build a new own image using Armbian build. Or just stick to that older working image. It could be that the GUI drivers like it was in older kernels is dropped after 5.10 kernels or so, that happens to older hardware unfortunately.  What is the kernel version where it still does work?

Edited April 29, 20251 yr by eselarm

Now I realize that as shown in the video, the BPI is powered the wrong way

see https://wiki.banana-pi.org/images/4/45/Banana_pi_BPI-M1_1.jpg

https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Quick_Start_Banana_pi_SBC

 

Powering shall be done via the microUSB connector that is between the SATA power connector and the SATA data connector.

Or via GPIO pins.