Greg_E

Well, I would suggest no longer building any OS for this device, there doesn't seem to be enough interest to run this OS, so might as well not spend the time on building updates. I think I'm just going to ditch mine since the hardware designers have very little desire to see it stay operational. I tried with an hdmi, and still nothing. The system also doesn't try to expand the filesystem to fill the free space. And since the hardware designers didn't bother to include a serial port, can't see what is happening. I'm guessing something with GRUB, but that's a guess at this point. It is definitely something different between kernel v5 and v6, every one of the v5 flavors boot right up as expected.

Just realized that autocorrect got me in the title, grrrr! Devterm

I have a Dev term a06 and have been having problems with the newer releases based on kernel 6.x. After booting one of these, the display does not have backlight or any text/image displayed. On the last 5.x it boots and works fine. I have not yet tried the HDMI output on the 6.x versions, need to get an adapter, but I'm guessing that the built in display is not discovered. The Dev term does not normally have a serial port, I'd need to solder up an adapter, or I would have looked at it to see if anything was happening. Any suggestions for a very basic Linux user to try? Especially something I can maybe edit after flashing (before first boot). I should be able to get a Linux image up on WSL if needed to read/write the card. I had Kali on WSL, but it broke during an update, but shouldn't be too hard to stand up a new VM.

Would it be possible to include VHD versions of the Armbian for PC? I was able to convert the image file over to VHD, but it would have been nice to have it available as a download. This is for use in VirtualBox or other virtual machine (like XCP-NG for my use case). Alternate being an ISO installer, but that would probably take a bunch of work to get going.