Beun de Haas

Mine BPI will not work with armbian. (But still working with an old lubuntu version). I've managed to boot the kernel, via USB or tftpboot (even with an NFS mouted rootfs) and now it's hangs after a couple of "running /scripts/local-block..... done" messages. Maybe i've an old HW version of the board or something like that. I give up ! Thanks for your time an tips

Which version armbian you're using on your banana-pi. Then i will try it on mine.

Thanks.... i've tried several versions and none of them will boot correctly. (and with several SD cards from different manufaries) Tried debian and ubuntu versions. 20.11, 5.75, 5.65, 5.59, 4.14.... With a lot of 'tweaking' in the u-boot part, i've got one version (4.14.65) starting (in a combo SD-card and USB-stick!!), but without an graphical desktop. Is there someone in the world, who has a working version of armbian, running op a banana-pi (M1) and if yes, please tell me the version you use. preferably a desktop version. Thanks in advance b.t.w. is it possible to start/run armbian 'diskless' (in my early days, we had some sun-workstations. some of them had no HDD and where 'booting' from a tftp/nfs server). I see some 'hints' in the u-boot documentation and i've noticed, when connected to the network, it ask's an IP address and tries to contact a tftpserver. Is there an, sort of, how-to manual?

Hi, i'am desperate with my banana-p1 M1. It is (still) running nicely with an old 'Lemaker' Lubuntu version. But its an old linux version and the are 'iceweasel' issues in combination with https. So, it's a good time to use a (much) newer version of linux. I've tried several versions/downloads of Armbian: debian, ubuntu. I've tried different (tested with F3write/read) SD cards. Used several methods to 'write' the SD-card(s), like 'dd' or the etcher-tool.... ALL results have the same problem. (i've got an picture of the screen, but i can't upload it to this forum???) In sort, it say's: U-boot 2020.10-armbian ..... Allwinner Tech... CPU: Allwinner A20 (SUN7I) I2C: ready DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: mmc@1c0f000: 0 Loading Environment from FAT.... MMC: no card present HDMI connected: Setting up a 1920x1080...... IN: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: eth0: ethernet@1c50000 MMC: no card present starting USB.... .... .... missing environment variable: bootfile There is a card present (tried serveral types/size/manufactories) and i removed the SD card > the screen stays 'black'. So the banana-pi is seeing the SD-card. The hardware is OK, b'cause i have tried the 'old' SD card with the 'lubuntu' version and that is working nicely... latest attempt was with image: Armbian_21.02.1_Bananapi_bionic_current_5.10.12.img.xy So what is going wrong? Can somebody give me some tricks? Thanks in advance