I Have an A96X with rockchip RK3228 and i tried booting armbian on it, but I got no display on HDMI. I connected a serial adapter to it and here is the information it displays when trying to boot: ▒▒▒▒DDR Version V1.05 20160805_dbg In 300MHz DDR3 Bus Width=32 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 CS=1 Die Bus-Width=16 Size=1024MB mach:2 OUT Boot1 Release Time: 2016-03-15, version: 2.31 ChipType = c 275 No.1 FLASH ID:2c 64 44 4b a9 0 ECC:60 SdmmcInit=0 0 BootCapSize=0 UserCapSize=76f5000 FwPartOffset=2000 , 0 StorageInit ok = 1520008 SecureMode : SBOOT_MODE_NS hdr 0x0:ff a1 0 0 1b 0 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:a4 81 0 0 4e 23 0 0 f0 f2 2e 68 f0 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:ff a1 0 0 3 0 0 0 f4 f2 2e 68 f4 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:a4 81 0 0 44 0 0 0 f4 f2 2e 68 f4 f2 2e 68 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 hdr 0x0:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 SecureMode : SBOOT_MODE_NS Loder code check ok! theLoader 0x60000000, loadaddr: 0x2000 Loder code check ok! theLoader 0x68400000, loadaddr: 0x4000 INF TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:319: Initializing (1.0.1-63-g23e91df-dev #16 Tu e Mar 7 10:07:15 UTC 2017 arm) INF TEE-CORE:init_primary_helper:320: Release version: 1.8 INF TEE-CORE:init_teecore:79: teecore inits done U-Boot 2017.02-RK322X-06-02276-ga7c7ca8-dirty (May 19 2017 - 11:16:15) CPU: rk322x cpu version = 3 CPU's clock information: arm pll = 600000000HZ periph pll = 600000000HZ ddr pll = 600000000HZ codec pll = 500000000HZ Board: Rockchip platform Board Uboot as second level loader DRAM: Found dram banks: 1 Adding bank:0000000060000000(0000000040000000) Reserve memory for trust os. dram reserve bank: base = 0x68400000, size = 0x00100000 128 MiB GIC CPU mask = 0x00000001 rk dma pl330 version: 1.4 remotectl v0.1 pwm freq=0x11e1a3 pwm_freq_nstime=0x355 SdmmcInit = 0 0 SDCard Update. storage init OK! Using default environment Writing env to storage... done GetParam W: Invalid Parameter's tag (0x00000000)! Invalid parameter No pmic detect. SecureBootEn = 0, SecureBootLock = 0 #Boot ver: 0000-00-00#0.00 empty serial no. normal boot. no fuel gauge found no fuel gauge found read logo on state from dts [0] no fuel gauge found 'recovery' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:recovery try to start backup 'backup' does not seem to be a partition nor an address Unable to boot:backup try to start rockusb Can anybody point me to the right direction? I'd really like to turn this piece of junk into something useful 😄 Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

You forgot to mention a very important caveat, in that all filesystems on that device sda should be unmounted when you dd (BTW, pv is cooler than dd for this). That means, you have to boot off a different device. "sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sda | xz -v armbian_odroidc4_11_01_2025.img.xz" gets you the desired compression in one go. | is called a pipe.

so, you are good now?

Hello and thank you for your problem report. You are absolutely spot on, no worries! Your board is community maintained status. I would advise you to try and contact Chris, the listed maintainer of this board and see if you guys can pinpoint the root cause of the problem and provide a fix we can incorporate via a PR.

not sure, but sounds like a boot order issue? @meco, I believe you are the maintainer for this board, aren't you?