Hi community, I am experiencing an issue reinstalling Armbian on my Helios64. I tried all methods including booting from an SD card, flashing the image onto the eMMC directly but every time I boot, I get kernel panic (flashing status light). I also can't connect to the USB via TTY to diagnose the issue. My macbook keeps detecting the /dev/tty.usbserial-DT03OEIM and the next second it is gone. I wanted to install the original Buster image but I cannot find it anymore in any of the archives. It's kind of disappointing because what's the purpose of an archive then if not hold on to an image for a few years. My current theories are limited and I can only think that the newer images might not have the correct drivers, but as I said, I can't connect via TTY to even observe the boot log. I tried pretty much everything at this point: all of the images available (devbian, ubuntu), all flavors of them (minimal, omv). Booting into U-boot, Setting P10, P11 jumpers etc, etc. Can anyone help?

I try installing Debian Trixie using the installer by 2 differents approachs but It didn’t succeeds. 1) using a bootable USB key with ARMhf (Generic version), found on Debian web site 2) Has described in DEBIAN ARMhf installation manual, using hd-media to include the asus c100p correct .dtb (tree) files during the creation of the external USB. Regardless the method, the USB key with intaller, is not recognized, when typing CTRL+U, in developper mode. The Chromebook didn’t see the key, but it work well with Zutchi group, but not here. I only received a serie of bibs, when doing CTRL+U. I also try building an ARMBIAN image, but, Asus C100P is not available in choices, and I look in EXPERT mode, not supported, but didn’t find a generic ARMhf file having features: RK3288 processor, 4Gb of RAM, 16Gb of emmc, 2 x USB, USBc, hdmi, wifi, so I didn’t complete the process. I am open to suggestions, but my next trial is using ‘dd’ and install the ‘Velvet trixie’ image found on GitHub directly on emmc ‘drive’, if not succeed, I will try Archlinuxarm with PostmarketOS. Thanks for your comments and suggestions.

@Tomi Skies try the x96q images https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

Everything worked fine, even tried some ffmpeg for hardware decode

This is on minimal. So no xorg or Wayland. But I use xorg normally. I generally start with minimal and work up. I despise both Ubuntu and gnome. You won't find those on any computer I own. I compromise with xfce for the little time I might use it before I have everything set up. I've just reversed direction and installed debian xfce stable. Mostly to avoid the hassle of replacing net plan with network manager. A PIA. I can uninstall all the stuff I don't like that comes with the desktop version. Probably easier. With xfce there are two screens, but the one on the built in screen seems to be double the size it should be. I can only see half the dog. I can live with that for now. At least it uses the Fullscreen of the HDMI.