Jay Maynard

I used an image downloaded from the Yandex link in the first message, with GNOME and Jammy, the latest version there (23.02).

It turns out it wasn't my power supply. I had partitioned my NVMe into two, one for /boot and one for root, and told it to install to the root partition on /dev/nvme0n1p2 . Had the same issue: hang at boot time with the blue light on continuously (but not looping through a power cycle: the blue LED never turned off, as it would in a boot loop). Then I had a flash of "maybe..." and repartitioned the NVMe as one partition, then installed to it with armbian-config. Success! I get a lot of messages at boot time scrolling through the console that I can't read (I use a 4K monitor, and it's tiny text), but it does run without the SD card in place. Yay! Now to see how fast it runs the application I got it for.

Well, that went not much of anywhere...I did the install to MTD+NVMe, and at boot, the machine came on, the blue light came on, and then never started blinking. I've been using a power supply that came with my Pi 400, but I suspect that does PD. Now to find one that doesn't and is beefy enough to run this machine. But...the machine does boot from SD after doing the installation to MTD+NVMe with that same power supply. Is it really the power supply, or something else?

I could install to NVMe, but it didn't offer to load things into the SPI. I actually did the NVMe install by selecting MTD/NVMe, but aborted the copy to MTD.

I wasn't offered SPI + NVMe/SATA; I only got boot from SD or MTD. This is on the 20230209 image, booted from SD with an NVMe installed. (It found the NVMe just fine.)

That did it. Thanks!

I'm trying to run Armbian on my Rock 5B by booting off an SD card and having root on NVMe. Here's what I've done: First, on another Linux system: Create a gpt partition table on the NVMe. Allocate 256 MB for a /boot (one of these days, booting from NVMe will settle down, but for now...) Allocate the remainder of the NVMe to /. Use dd to copy the filesystem from the SD card to the NVME's root partition. Use gparted to change the UUID of the NVME root and expand the filesystem to use the available space. Alter the armbianEnv.txt file to point to the NVME's UUID. Install the SD and NVMe cards on the Rock. When I boot the Rock, it starts up and ssh and local text console access works, but graphical logins crash immediately and produce the "Oh no something went wrong" screen. If I switch back to the SD card, everything works fine. I'm obviously missing something, but what? Note that I don't think this is Rock-specific.