I have a similar issue on "Banana PI M1", so I can provide more details. Basically, what I've found out is the linux kernel contained in the latest "linux-image-legacy-sunxi" (version 24.5.1) package appears to broken to the point of locking-up right from the start. It prints "Starting kernel...", and no more messages appear even with "verbosity=6" setting in the "armbianEnv.txt". * "linux-image-current-sunxi" version 24.5.1 with 6.6.31 kernel: boots fine. * "linux-image-legacy-sunxi" version 24.2.1 with "6.1.77" kernel: boots fine. * "linux-image-legacy-sunxi" version 24.5.1 with "6.1.92" kernel: broken as described above. In the "boots fine" cases, the kernel prints multiple other messages, before starting the OS boot. Here are the steps to reproduce. I've done it for "Banana PI M1", but I think any board with Allwinner "Cortex-A7"-based SOC should work. 1. Download and write the Armbian image to a MicroSD card. 2. Connect the serial console, boot the board, finish setup, do all the upgrades: assume everything works fine at this point. Double-check that "linux-image-current-sunxi" is what's being used. 3. Set "verbosity=6" in the "armbianEnv.txt", reboot and observe the kernel messages. 4. Install "armbian-config" and use it to switch to the legacy kernel. After step (4) reboots, observe the boot process gets stuck at "Starting kernel..." message. What I'm guessing could've happened is something went wrong during the build process for that specific target (e.g. data corruption, wrong architecture being used).

the manjaro is my main pc, it is x64 uefi, with a AMD gpu, i didnt think i can get a compatible dts this is what i got from orange pi zero 2 kernel 4.9 xrandr Screen 0: minimum 1280 x 720, current 1280 x 720, maximum 1280 x 720 default connected 1280x720+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1280x720 0.00* it is interesting, my monitor is 1920x1080 in the dmesg also show 1920x1080, but change to 1280x720, and it really show connect/disconnect, so maybe some pin is different from mainline, so maybe it communicated with monitor, but then it overwrite the settings dmesg.txt

Hi, thank for your answer ... root@orangepi5:~# armbian-add-overlay orangepi-5-sata.dts Compiling the overlay Copying the compiled overlay file to /boot/overlay-user/ Reboot is required to apply the changes after copy files and directory to m2 sata disk and reboot ... And there it stays... Please helpme, It's a new 500GB m2 sata 2242 drive that I bought for this opi5 I currently use the "rkspi_loader.img" from OPI5 Observation: This is the only version that runs smoothly on my opi5

well you have something to work with... use the manjaro dtsi and the dts that worked

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first Don't expect wifi to work.