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Hello, I have a La Frite 1gb. Im trying to boot armbian but it wont boot, I have checked the common problems list on the libre computer forum , It stated sd card, power supply etc. I have made sure that none of these are the problem, I have tried 5 different sd cards and im now using a 6th brand new Sandisk Extreme bought in the store (The one recommended by libre computer). I have tried many PSUs , All 5V 3.0A which is supposed to be enough, I get no help in the la frite forum so i thought i would check in with you guys and see if anyone knows what the issue could be. Also, id like to add, it wont boot anything, none of the images of ubuntu destkop, raspbian, etc from libre computers has worked either but i think Armbian is my best chance since the images were updated recently, meanwhilst the official images were not updated since 2023. This is the instructions for the La Frite boot: The normal process flow is as follows: 1. Download Compressed Image (eg. file+model.img.xz) DONE 2. Extract Compressed Image (eg. file.img) DONE 3. Flash Extracted Decompressed Image to Bootable Storage Medium (MicroSD card) DONE 4. Insert Bootable Storage Medium into Board DONE 5. Provide Sufficient Power to Board DONE 6. Board Boots u-boot Bootloader from Storage Medium DONE 7. u-boot Bootloader Loads EFI Bootloader (GRUB) done I never come further than this. The errors are vast, there are many of them and they are different all the time, It is stuff like KERNEL PANIC, KERNEL TIME OUT, END TRACE etc, Stuff which i dont understand. Is it possbile that i got sent a faulty La Frite? It is brand new unboxed 3 days ago, during which these 3 days i have been all day trying to get it to work. Flashing Tools: I have used all recommended tools, including Win32 Disk Imager, macOS Disk Utility, raspberry pi imager, balena etcher and installing linux on an old computer just so i cold use Gnome Disk Utility on Linux, didnt work either. I think i have tried booting over a 100 times, to no success. 9. EFI Bootloader Boots Linux 10. Linux Boots systemd 11. systemd starts services and applications I read on this forum that one guy couldnt get it to work until he tried the V20 images, however i cant seem to find those in the archive, it only goes back to 24.8.1 i believe. I appreciate any help i could get thanks. I have also updated the firmware of the La Frite itself using the latest spi flash from libre computers, this was actually sucesfull and the firmware of the board was updated. Ill share some screenshots of some of the errors, All of these has usually been stopped completely or the one time an infinite loop:

I have tried every one of the latest 24.x images on my newly purchased LaFrite s805x-ac board. NONE worked. They all gave an error about overwriting reserved memory. I randomly chose a 20.x image and it worked immedaitely. I do not currently have time to do further analysis.

board ist lafrite with 512mb, 8gb emmc tried all possible ports for i2c. first by configuring with armbian-config and activating i2c port a and b. then manual by writing an overlay to activate i2c_ao and deactivate the uart on pins 3+5; also tried pins 27+28; i2cdetect -y bus-nr (0, 1) never detected anything; i2cdetect -l gave me correct ports; i2cdetect -y for the hdmi-port allways worked.