close investigation it   seems to use grub, not bootp, card written does not show any activity of green led even after 10 minutes from powerup.  Do you have some of the magic twanger needed to boot a pi?

 

Thank you, gene1934

 

I dropped back to  Armbian_24.5.1_Bananapim5_bookworm_current_6.6.31_xfce_desktop.img and while it working, the boot find order of the drives is still random, no two boots is a row  report the same lsblk order of disk vs sd* assigbnents. Only by using LABELS have I succeeded in getting them (7 drives) mounted in /etx./fstab. After that dated install an apt upgrade spent about an hour updating 270 some pkgs

 

Just tried to get some of the other partitions mounted and usable, using LABEL= to ID them, got 2 of the 3 on a 1T toshiba drive, but found swapoff -a works, but swapon -a does not, won't even restore whats found at boot. This is from fdisk, also a reboot changed /dev/sdd into /dev/sdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: MQ01ABD100V     
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x481e1363

Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1             2048  102402047  102400000 48.8G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2        102402048 1748725759 1646323712  785G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3       1748725760 1953523711  204797952 97.7G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
but its not swapon-able, note the dos disklable, it s/b gpt, it was done with gparted.   ?????? Is there a conversion utility to make gpt or should I wait on working keyboard/mouse kit and let gparted blow it away? So I did, changed 3 parts to 2 and refornatted both and found that swapon should use label's but fails and the reboot to do that moved the toshiba drive from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdd.  Howinhell can I stabilize tiis?????