October 28, 2025Oct 28 Hi, everybody, I have 2 M5 one running Debian Server and one running ubuntu Desktop. Both images downloaded from BPI site and Installed on EMMC. I want to replace these OS with armbian server. I tried armbian v6.12 (Ubuntu KDE 24.04, Ubuntu Server 24.04 and Minimal IOT). None of them boot from SD card. The Ubuntu 20.4 image downloaded from BPI site boot well from SD card. I have restored the original Android image with Amlogic burnin tool on one M5 and Armbian don't boot from SD but the ubuntu 20.4 from BPI site works well. I don't known what to do ? Thank's in advance
October 28, 2025Oct 28 Author Thank's for your prompt reply. Attached, you'll find the logs. SD boot fails with Armbian image on SD : bootlogM5Armbian.log SD boot success with ubuntu 20.4 (provided by BPI site) on SD : bootlogM5BPIUbuntu.log Regards Guy bootlogM5Armbian.log bootlogM5BPIUbuntu.log
October 30, 2025Oct 30 Author More informations : after i wrote an armbian image on SD card with USBImager on my windows desktop (with verified checked) , The SD card is not readable , it appears as not formatted in windows. But if i write the image from BPI site, i can read the partition on the SD card and see the files on it. Maybe it helps
October 31, 2025Oct 31 That's probably the boot partition in fat32. You can't read linux partitions in Windows without tools. So it's normal you can't read an armbian image in windows since it doesn't use fat partitions. Why it doesn't boot is another case. I would try to build my own image with either legacy or mainline kernel. I don't have the board so no idea what works on it.
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