Hello! I have an RPi5 8GB board that I bought off of AliExpress, along with a Waveshare PoE M.2 HAT+ ( https://www.waveshare.com/poe-m.2-hat-plus-b.htm ) Initially I tried to use the Noble XFCE image, by following the recommended installation procedure via rpi-imager via a USB drive, hoping to install the system to a Toshiba (Kioxia) NVMe drive. The RPI5 was connected to a CrowView Note. What I saw was that the firmware loaded up the necessary files from the USB drive (then later the micro-SD card), and the initramfs loaded up too, then systemd started up, and probably when the screen usually goes blank for a short time (probably switching to KMS), here, the signal completely drops, and apparently nothing happens. (The messages scroll too fast, and then disappear, and I can't make out anything from the screen content.) I tried looking on the network to see whether the RPi5 comes up at all, but no. Since then, I tried to eliminate elements from my setup to see whether that makes any difference: I removed the Waveshare HAT Swtiched to using a micro-SD card instead of the USB thumb drive Tried to boot it without the CrowView Note Tried using the Noble Server image to eliminate any possible problems with the graphical UI but none of these helped. I now have the bare RPi5 with an active heatsink, and it's still not booting properly. What should I try? Should I try to get serial console working so that I at least see the boot messages? Is there an activity LED on the RPI5 where I could at least configure a heartbeat so that I could check whether the OS is alive at all? Since the OS can't be installed, I can't really submit much diagnostic information.

@going Yes, git is a pain in ass. I think it's better to teach everyone the git commands. Maybe someone will learn from my instructions and contribute to the mainline Linux kernel. The Transpeed 8k618-t Tv box will always be supported because I learned how to use git commands and submit patches. I hope others will do the same. A lot of the patches are mainlined for h618. I don't think it will be too long before Armbian just needs a Transpeed 8k618 board config to build an image. But of course there's different variations of the same box. I hope this thread helps them because I won't be here forever.

The way the Debian .iso installer does it: sudo apt-get -o APT::Install-Recommends="true" install task-lxqt-desktop That will install a fully functional desktop with a minimal set of applications. If you set Install-Recommends to false, or any other way of installing it (i.e. lxqt), in my experience, the result may not be quite functional.

@remlei I'did uploading this imagem, is minimal, i hope help you! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1esroAyxq2D2kJ5XPB2_pofQ473B-h1_S/view

From a minimal image type this (If you are going to use it in English, skip the "l10n" commands or translations) sudo apt update sudo apt install task-lxqt-desktop papirus-icon-theme gvfs locales polkitd xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt sudo reboot sudo apt install gvfs-backends lxqt-l10n-es liblxqt-l10n qterminal-l10n pcmanfm-qt-l10n featherpad-l10n lxqt-panel-l10n lxqt-session-l10n lxqt-powermanagement-l10n lxqt-config-l10n lxqt-about-l10n lxqt-admin-l10n lxqt-archiver-l10n sudo apt install gvfs-backends liblxqt-l10n qterminal-l10n pcmanfm-qt-l10n featherpad-l10n lxqt-panel-l10n lxqt-session-l10n lxqt-powermanagement-l10n lxqt-config-l10n lxqt-about-l10n lxqt-admin-l10n lxqt-archiver-l10n sudo apt install lxqt-globalkeys-l10n lxqt-policykit-l10n lxqt-runner-l10n lxqt-sudo-l10n lximage-qt-l10n libfm-qt-l10n lxqt-openssh-askpass-l10n ls xdg-user-dirs sudo apt install pavucontrol-qt-l10n sudo apt install dmz-cursor-theme sudo apt install openbox sudo apt purge --remove xfwm4 sudo apt autoremove sudo apt install obconf-qt obconf-qt-l10n sudo apt search xterm sudo apt purge --remove xterm sudo apt install qpdfview qpdfview-translations sudo apt install screengrab