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Hi etho201, According to the OPi5 manual, the green light will start to blink after the kernel loads. That would mean whenever you reboot and you get the green blink, it made it past the bootloader. To anyone else who can answer, Does the default Armbian config output boot info to the serial console? That might show where it gets hung up here.

Update: I was able to borrow an NVMe enclosure, I flashed the SSD with a fresh image on a different computer, and my board booted it just fine. I am still interested in knowing if zero'ing the SPI is a valid way to go back to SDCard booting. Thanks again for your help.

Hi all, I am trying to recover after a failed NVMe install. I have a working install on an SDCard, but I think my board no longer boots to SDCard, since I flashed the bootloader via armbian-install. I am not sure if my NVMe install is good or not, and I can't currently reflash it. So I think my best bet is to wipe the SPI, which I hope means the board will go back to booting from SDCard. That's question 1 - is that actually a valid solution? If I wipe the SPI will I be able to again boot to SDCard? I am able to get the board into Maskrom mode, and I can see it using the Windows tool. However, I believe that I need a "loader image" that I "download" into the tool before I can wipe the bootloader. The Rock5 SPI wipe guide posted elsewhere in this forum refers to rk3588_spl_loader_v1.08.111.bin, which I don't have, and I'm not sure that's the right loader for the OPi5. That's question 2 - is there a loader for the OPi5 and/or can the Rock5 loader be used here? The OPi5 Manual is very sparse about Maskrom info, it says how to get into that mode, but only gives instructions for flashing the board to Android. The Android download is not working right now (Google Drive quota) so I am not able to get that package, in case it happens to have a suitable loader image. Thanks for any replies in advance.