I can confirm that Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.4_Helios4_noble_current_6.6.75.img.xz does not boot on Helios-4 with the same error described above:
Wrong Ramdisk Image Format
Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
I spent the weekend investigating a similar issue with upstream Debian and upstream u-boot that turned out to be after a certain size of mmc access data would be corrupted. Disabling the SDHCI_SDMA function in u-boot helped:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250208-a388-kerneladdr-v2-1-17c01313eba2@solid-run.com
Finally I pushed this and other changes to the SolidRun vendor fork for the Armada 388 System on Module (as used on Helios-4), and attempted booting the same armbian image again. This time boot succeeded:
BootROM - 1.73
Booting from SPI flash
U-Boot SPL 2024.04 (Feb 08 2025 - 13:12:00 +0000)
High speed PHY - Version: 2.0
Detected Device ID 6828
board SerDes lanes topology details:
| Lane # | Speed | Type |
--------------------------------
| 0 | 6 | SATA0 |
| 1 | 5 | USB3 HOST0 |
| 2 | 6 | SATA1 |
| 3 | 6 | SATA3 |
| 4 | 6 | SATA2 |
| 5 | 5 | USB3 HOST1 |
--------------------------------
High speed PHY - Ended Successfully
mv_ddr: 14.0.0
DDR3 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window
DDR Training Sequence - Start scrubbing
DDR3 Training Sequence - End scrubbing
mv_ddr: completed successfully
Trying to boot from SPI
U-Boot 2024.04 (Feb 08 2025 - 13:12:00 +0000)
SoC: MV88F6828-A0 at 1600 MHz
DRAM: 2 GiB (800 MHz, 32-bit, ECC enabled)
Core: 30 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: separate
MMC: mv_sdh: 0
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected w25q32 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
Model: Helios4
Board: Helios4
Net:
Warning: ethernet@70000 (eth1) using random MAC address - 86:69:49:e4:c6:90
eth1: ethernet@70000
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
2996 bytes read in 17 ms (171.9 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 00200000
Boot script loaded from mmc
158 bytes read in 13 ms (11.7 KiB/s)
28834 bytes read in 32 ms (879.9 KiB/s)
8146813 bytes read in 807 ms (9.6 MiB/s)
8550096 bytes read in 850 ms (9.6 MiB/s)
Working FDT set to 100000
Kernel image @ 0x800000 [ 0x000000 - 0x8276d0 ]
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01800000 ...
Image Name: uInitrd
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 8146749 Bytes = 7.8 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 00100000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x100000
Working FDT set to 100000
Loading Ramdisk to 0f83b000, end 0fffff3d ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 0f7cb000, end 0f83afff ... OK
Working FDT set to f7cb000
Starting kernel ...
Loading, please wait...
Starting systemd-udevd version 255.4-1ubuntu8.5
Binaries for reference:
https://images.solid-run.com/A38X/U-Boot/v2024.04/2025-02-08_695f767/u-boot-helios-4-sd.kwb
https://images.solid-run.com/A38X/U-Boot/v2024.04/2025-02-08_695f767/u-boot-helios-4-spi.kwb
