June 10, 20251 yr FYI latest image for rock 5B+ in downloads section is broken (Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop) Wont boot at all, previous 25.2.2 images works fine.
June 10, 20251 yr Yeah, it was reported at GH too: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/8227 Probably related: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/8269 No solution yet.
June 10, 20251 yr Author Are platinum supported boards not tested on actual hardware before posting images? FYI we are on of radxas big partners that paid for the platinum membership so there is better support for this board, not sure if all the USB/wifi related driver issues were fixed?
June 10, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, armbuilder said: Are platinum supported boards not tested on actual hardware before posting images? Yes, that is the main idea, but sometimes things slipped trough. Images were tested (we aim to have two people on one platinum target to be able to provide better service, but perfection is still not possible), but here we ran into weird problem that CI compilation silently broke on u-boot recompilation, while local build works. We have a problem with build framework / compiler internals, unrelated to this specific hardware and problem only manifest on some u-boot variants. Right now, I don't have a clear picture, but we are working on it. This was introduced while moving framework to Noble, which is mandatory for some targets and there are some Python libraries troubles ... which are sometimes used for u-boot / ATF compile. Its a mess. 1 hour ago, armbuilder said: not sure if all the USB/wifi related driver issues were fixed? Software maintenance within such extreme complexity is job that is never done. Generally speaking.
June 10, 20251 yr 2 hours ago, armbuilder said: not sure if all the USB/wifi related driver issues were fixed 5B+ on vendor (6.1.115) has all I/O related stuff fixed (since 6.1.84) as far as my testing (the one reported in the https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/ description). Looking into the broken gnome image though and will update here!
June 11, 20251 yr @Igor Just tried with the latest image on https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_gnome. This 100% works as I had tested, so either @armbuilder has a broken flash storage or had an error while writing to the storage medium. Gnome Desktop is working too
June 14, 20251 yr So I was able to reproduce the issue when trying to boot via NVMe after using armbian-config to switch from emmc. Using rkdeveloptool to flash the SPI with https://dl.radxa.com/rock5/sw/images/loader/rock-5b+/release/rock-5b+-spi-image-8ea7ee4-20240730.img (short guide in the spoiler) Spoiler rkdeveloptool cs 9 rkdeveloptool ef rkdeveloptool wl 0 rock-5b+-spi-image-8ea7ee4-20240730.img rkdeveloptool rd I was able to boot into the NVMe. Looking into fixing the broken SPI installation
June 18, 20251 yr Author Has a fixed image been posted? Just upgraded to 25.5 from 25.2, so havent tested a new image download yet.
September 12, 20251 yr sha256sum Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz 1b5b3f8e9f136772dd0e3b80990f7cd2ed305e34db7510ea4f4fd83d3f40b5f0 cat Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz.sha 8ebcc156f53bf8a826bba4291e8ff3fce8037be64c02b4ca59f6befbe361586c xz -t Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz xz: Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz: Unexpected end of input I tried many mirrors. It has been like this since it's May release. Torrent download also fails keeps rejecting fragments presumably due mismatching checks. Is suspect the file got corrupted somehow
September 17, 20251 yr @Dann https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_gnome verifies fine for me. Try https://netcup-03.armbian.com/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz and https://netcup-03.armbian.com/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/Armbian_25.5.1_Rock-5b-plus_noble_vendor_6.1.115_gnome_desktop.img.xz.sha
October 2, 20251 yr I burned the image with Balena Etcher and verified it. After the first attempt it did not boot. Downloaded and burned the image a second time on a different SD card, again not booting. The green light on the board stays on. I'm a fan of Armbian. Never had issues on my RPI5. I hoped this new powerfull SBC would be the same but no, Armbian is not working and the RADXA OS also is giving me lots of problems. Sorry to say, I'm a little dissapointed... Ernst-Jan Edited October 2, 20251 yr by e.j. Frölich
October 3, 20251 yr 9 hours ago, e.j. Frölich said: Balena Etcher https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#flash-to-sd-card Quote Due to known issues, balenaEtcher can no longer be recommended as an alternative at this time.
October 3, 20251 yr I use Balena Etcher on my laptop running Linux Mint. It never let me down before. I understand balena Etcher on an Arm SBC is not recomended. Ernst-Jan
November 11, 2025Nov 11 The Armbian Debian 12 bookworm XFCE version workes fine, also after an update! Almost everything, including the fan is working. Video is working fine except for ytube. ytube is not playable even in the lowest, 144p, framerate. it's useless. I read about 3D acceleration but I'm not sure how to get on with this. Ernst-Jan Edited November 11, 2025Nov 11 by e.j. Frölich typo's
November 16, 2025Nov 16 Author Any update here? Same broken image is still linked from back in may and no update to these images since then?
November 17, 2025Nov 17 Try from here: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/igorpecovnik/ (this is going to be next release - first test build).
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