Robert Pace

From a functional Orange Pi 5+ Debian Bookworm (vendor) OS I mounted the SD card containing the Armbian Bookworm with 6.12 kernel, I checked the uuid for the mounted mmblk1p1 (I don't have mmcblk0p1) /dev/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="armbi_root" UUID="baa71ffd-ca4c-4b04-acfa-956e263f56dc" with /boot/armbianEnv.txt being set to rootdev=UUID=baa71ffd-ca4c-4b04-acfa-956e263f56dc and /etc/fstab being set to UUID=baa71ffd-ca4c-4b04-acfa-956e263f56dc / ext4 defaults,noatime,commit=120,errors=remount-ro 0 1 A boot to the Armbian Debian Bookworm 6.12 Cinnamon desktop SD Card stops at the initramfs loading stage. I've downloaded the image several times and used balena etcher to write to a variety of sd cards, each failing at the same stage.

A test of Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12 https://dl.armbian.com/orangepi5-plus/Noble_current_kde-neon-kisak worked perfectly with sdcard. Which lends credence to the bookworm image having an issue, and not kernel 6.12 related issue. I have tested a variety of sd cards with the bookworm image, all failing at the initramfs stage.

Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12 variant Cinnamon with mesa/vpu support fails to boot from SD card. The message displayed on screen is "Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... (initramfs) _" SPI was erased, and the minimal install have no issues booting from a sd card. The SBC is an Orange Pi 5 Plus with 16gb ram