January 3Jan 3 I have a Orange Pi Zero 2W and want to install a headless ( minimal ) OS. I have tried Armbian 25.5.1. I have an Ubuntu box and I have attempted to write to the SD card using Armbian ImagerImager, by selecting an image from the app as well as downloading an image to use. In both instances, I get a FLASH failure. See the attached image for the diag link. Can anyone give me some insight?
January 3Jan 3 Author By the way, the "tag" says "solved", but that is not true. A tag was required for submission and "solved" was the only selection available in the drop down and the text box was not editable.
January 17Jan 17 Author Solution The issue was bad SD media. Replaced the SD card and the image was written successfully. Side note. Armbian 25.5.1 does not create 2 partitions, it was designed to create only one partition. That was confusing because most instructions for installation were still referring to 2 partitions until I stumbled on a ChatGPT answer.
January 18Jan 18 9 hours ago, Lane Mitcham said: Armbian 25.5.1 does not create 2 partitions, i The boot partition presence doesn't depend directly on the Armbian version—it's determined by the board configuration. Some configs enable an extra boot partition, especially for boards using older U-Boot versions that can't boot directly from ext4. As a result, even for the same board and Armbian version, different branches (e.g., legacy, vendor, current, edge) may behave differently. Vendor branch might use an old BSP U-Boot requiring the extra partition while mainline branch uses newer U-Boot that boots straight from ext4.
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