The Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Hello, I wanted to upgrade my Bananapi M1. So I downloaded "Buster minimal" from https://www.armbian.com/bananapi/ Last modified: 2020-02-17. I flashed the image to my SD card and started the SBC. But nothing happened. I got no heartbeat LED nor HDMI output. (I know from my Tinkerboard that I have to boot without connected HDMI to start correct. I did this with the bananapi too.) So I tried different variants: Bionic server, Buster server and Buster desktop. I never had a video output. I cross checked with my old raspian lite from 2016. With this image the Bananapi works. I used dd and Etcher for SD card preparation. What am I doing wrong? Can I use this version with the Bananapi? Best regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, The said: What am I doing wrong? It seems that images are corrupted while when I made one from sources, it works ... I will remake them in 15-20. Edit: @The Images were updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 Thank you very much. This was really fast. I tried different images: Armbian_5.90_Bananapi_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop - Green heartbeat LED flashes sometimes. No HDMI output. Armbian_19.11.6_Bananapi_buster_current_5.4.8_desktop - No heartbeat LED. No HDMI output. All new Armbian_20.02.5_Bananapi_xxxx_xxxxx_5.4.26 - No heartbeat LED. No HDMI output. Is HDMI output enabled? Is the green heartbeat LED enabled? I want to install some things in front of the SBC. If all is configured I want to use it headless. Do you have some hints for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 10 hours ago, The said: No HDMI output. That is something wrong on your side. HDMI 100% works. 10 hours ago, The said: new Armbian_20.02.5_Bananapi_xxxx_xxxxx_5.4.26 Was manually tested by me. It works. HDMI screen already starts in boot loader. Get a serial console and see what you got there. If anything? 10 hours ago, The said: Is the green heartbeat LED enabled? Not sure how it is configured - power, SD card activity, heartbeat ... This is not consistent over all boards. Its low priority to make this the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Posted March 22, 2020 Author Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 3/21/2020 at 9:05 AM, Igor said: That is something wrong on your side. HDMI 100% works. I found the error. It was because of my HDMI cable. With a shorter cable it works. Now my Bananapi M1 runs well. @Igor: Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the quick answers. Now I share all current torrents for that SBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 6 minutes ago, The said: Now I share all current torrents for that SBC. Thank you! Please use our scripts because torrents are updating all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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