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Thanks @c0rnelius Is there a sustainable way of building working images for kickpi k2b v2?

HI. I had same issue. For all others that might hit same issue bellow are instructions: 1. Supply yourself with known good SD card. 2. Go to KickPi website, download an image supplied by them and write it to the card using dd or balena-etcher. 2.1 Make sure that you are able to boot the image from above. 3. If you are under widows it is good to have a Virtual Machine (I have Debian 13 running inside virtual box). If you are a Linux user, just skip this step 4. Clone Armbian build project git clone https://github.com/armbian/build 4.1. Build an image: cd build ./compile.sh build BOARD=kickpik2b BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes RELEASE=trixie 4.2. Write the image to SD card from above. sudo dd if=output/images/Armbian-unofficial_25.11.0-trunk_Kickpik2b_trixie_current_6.12.58_minimal.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress 5. Clone Debian Image builder git clone https://github.com/pyavitz/debian-image-builder cd debian-image-builder 5.1 Follow the instructions from Readme.md: ./install.sh make menu 5.2 In the menu adjust uboot version to 2025.7 5.2 Build the uboot make uboot board=kickpik2b-v2 6. Write Uboot to your sdcard sudo dd if=output/kickpik2b-v2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 conv=fsync bs=1024 seek=8 7. Congratulations: Now you would have working board, but now WiFi or Ethernet.

Same Here. I am using Armbian on top of cubietruk as cups print server for years without issue. Now I have decided to see if I can use scanning function of my Samsung SCX-4600 3 in 1 machine. So, I logged in via ssh to my cubietruk running Armbian 23.02.0-trunk Lunar and I just did sudo apt-get update (And got some errors of missing repos), Despite that I have decided to give a try with sudo apt-get install sane Result was 5-6 missing packages Next obvious step was to start armbian-config and I went directly with "Update firmware and packages" Update was success and armbian-config asked for a reboot, which I did. Unfortunately the system was not able to boot. Luckily I have 23" HP Z-series monitor next to my trusty SBC and saw that on the console was lots of errors related to ETHERNET. Second and third reboot was pointles, so I have decided that It is time for fresh install for my cusps print- server. I have downloaded "Debian 12 (Bookworm)Minimal / IOT" from https://www.armbian.com/cubietruck/ and I have flashed it using dd. Next obvious step was to start the system. I saw U-Boot Logo and "Starting Kernel" Then the screen went BLACK. NOTHING. Now there is no way to configure this fresh install. Is there any workarounds?

Successfully installed on cubietruck: Details are: dmesg snip: [ 12.218407] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=f179, bcdDevice= 0.00 [ 12.218447] usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 12.218461] usb 3-1: Product: 802.11n [ 12.218472] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 12.218483] usb 3-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 lsusb: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188FTV 802.11b/g/n 1T1R 2.4G WLAN Adapter