jrstarke

Strangely I saw something similar with my Rock 5B when I was running it as a k3s control-plane node. Dropping it back to just a normal node, the problem appears to have gone away. Unsure what the difference is. Once I get another control-plane node running, I'll add it back in, and get a monitor log.

I tried this out, and at first it didn't work. Then I reflashed the NVMe from the armbian image and restarted. Boom, works like a charm!

I just tested this again with the latest Debian CLI Bullseye_Legacy build from December 9th. I can boot from the SD card fine. Rock 5 running stock radxa 30W power supply. Ran fdisk on my WD Black SSD, deleted all partitions, the created just one using mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1. Once complete, I ran armbian-install and installed on to /dev/nvme0n1p1, and then flashed the SPI when prompted. Once complete. I selected power off when prompted, then unplugged the power and removed the SD card. I powered the Rock 5 back on, and the activity LED has been solid green-blue ever since. If I boot to the SD card, but power it down, inserting the SD card, then powering it back on. It's solid green-blue for 5 seconds before it drops to just green with a double blink of the blue LED once a second. I've installed the radxa Rock 5 image on the NVME, and loaded up the SPI and that boots fine, but for some reason, I can't get it to boot on Armbian. I also tried flashing the NVME directly with BalenaEtcher with the same image, then initially booting with an SD card to run armbian-install to install the SPI. Same thing, when it boots, the activity LED is just solid green-blue. I think I let it run for 30 minutes at one point with no change.

I tried the "Armbian_22.11.1_Rock-5b_bullseye_legacy_5.10.72.img.xz" image on my Rock 5B. It worked on an SD card, but when I loaded it on an NVME drive on the build in M.2 slot, it worked with neither the SPI Boot image with armbian-install.sh, nor the SPI image from radxa. When I have SPI loaded, and I have the SD Card installed, it just seems to load from the SD Card. When I remove the SD card, and boot the system. It seems to just stay with the LED with the blue and green elements on. I've waited several minutes without it booting. I was able to get it to successfully boot once, but never again.