justanothernoob

After about 45 minutes of no change from the blue circle of death I pulled the power cable out and rebooted. This time I selected the Armbian Noble build - that seemed to complete successfully - although I wasn't monitoring the whole process but when I came back it must have completed the install and rebooted. Unfortunately it was only giving a blank screen. I tried several reboots and would get the initial blue lights come on and then nothing further. Eventually I had to remove the NVMe and reformat it as a clean EXT drive and reinsert. Now I'm back to being able to boot back into the RoobiOS installation GUI. I think that next I'll try just selecting the RADXA OS and then install Open Media Vault on top of that.

@prahal - I tried a number of those images but none worked. With RoobiOS I see that all of the blue lights below the SATA ports (i.e. on the underside of the board) light up as blue for a couple of seconds, then they turn off and then they flash twice ... the screen comes on and after a couple of error messages the Installation GUI starts. With the images from the links you provided, I don't get the blue lights (although I do get a yellow network link light) or any output to screen. However ... in RoobiOS I'm given the option of various images to install ... including the option for "custom" - I've selected that and entered https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/incoming/prahal/rock-5-itx/archive/Armbian_25.8.1_Rock-5-itx_bookworm_current_6.12.41_minimal.img.xz This gives a circle (of death?!) and "Loading ..." in RoobiOS but I see there's flashing green light on the ethernet port - which suggests that there's activity so maybe it's just a slow download?

DOH! Typo ... RoobiOS

hi there, I'm a complete Linux noob so please forgive my ignorance. But I do have 25+ years experience in IT so am relatively conversant with basic principles - so please be patient I did try to search for any previous threads but couldn't find any. I'm trying to setup a RADXA Rock 5 ITX with OpenMediaVault for my NAS. I have a 2TB NVMe m.2 SSD that I'll use for the OS. For the NAS storage I'm using 4x Western Digital 16TB SATA III drives. I downloaded the Armbian 25.2.2 bootable image from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ and used Balena Etcher (the legit version from Balena-io) to make my bootable microSD card. When I boot, I receive an error message of "failed to mount /dev/mount/mmcblk0p1 as root file system" I'm guessing this is because there is no emmc on this board other than what's provided for RooibOS flash? Do I just need to reconfigure the Armbian Bookworm setup script to use / look for the NVMe m.2 SSD instead of the emmc? If so, is there a way to do that on a Windows PC? If not, I may just have to go with the standard RooibOS install using Armbian Noble just to get a Linux system up and running, then edit the Armbian setup script, reflash the Rock 5 ITX and start again? Or is there something else I'm missing? Thanks in advance for your help.