Have images for Rock Pi 4 been tested lately?

[Akash17]

Neither versions (Bionic or Buster) imgs available on this site boot up on my Rock Pi 4 board. I've had it for a week.

 

It does with Debian which reports excellent power and it also boots Android 9.

 

Yes I've tried many thoroughly tested SDs.

 

If you haven't personally tried booting these images as they are on your newer Rock Pi 4 board please don't respond to this message.

 

 

Board: Not on the list

[Igor]

  On 5/7/2020 at 12:54 AM, Akash17 said:

If you haven't personally tried booting these images as they are on your newer Rock Pi 4 board please don't respond to this message.

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All images are tested.

 

Have you followed instructions on the download pages?

[Tido]

1. Provide a log from serial console or take a screenshot

 

Use  USBimager to write SDcard, try different power supply

 

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[Igor]

  On 5/7/2020 at 5:36 AM, Tido said:

Provide a log from serial console or take a screenshot

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No need to provide anything. It is most likely a classical problem with SPI bootloader which workaround is written on the download pages. I highly suspect this note:

“How to solve boot troubles with SPI enabled boards? 1 (variant 2)”
was not noticed here https://www.armbian.com/rock-pi-4/ 

[smartwell]

  On 5/7/2020 at 5:40 AM, Igor said:

 

No need to provide anything. It is most likely a classical problem with SPI bootloader which workaround is written on the download pages. I highly suspect this note:

“How to solve boot troubles with SPI enabled boards? 1 (variant 2)”
was not noticed here https://www.armbian.com/rock-pi-4/ 

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yes, this can slove problem, but armbian start up  very slow , i try armbian buster 5.4.28 on rockpi4a (1g ram)  using SD card , it needs 2 mintues, so ....... what can i do ????

Edited May 27, 2020 by smartwell

[Igor]

  On 5/27/2020 at 6:53 AM, smartwell said:

what can i do

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Erase SPI boot loader and boot from SD/eMMC. That one does not have a delay.

[smartwell]

  On 5/27/2020 at 7:09 AM, Igor said:

 

Erase SPI boot loader and boot from SD/eMMC. That one does not have a delay.

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en, thank you, do you test  on rockpi4a ?

[Igor]

  On 5/27/2020 at 7:16 AM, smartwell said:

do you test  on rockpi4a

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No, its a model B, but that doesn't count - they are identical in this and we had a delay, but not anymore. Its related to the bootloader ... you can search for https://github.com/armbian/build/commits/master to see when this was fixed in case that interests you.

[Igor]

BTW. I am using self made image from latest sources. I am not 100% sure this delay was fixed on the images from the download section ...

[piter75]

  On 5/27/2020 at 6:53 AM, smartwell said:

it needs 2 mintues, so ....... what can i do ????

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The fix for RockPi 4 boot delay is quite fresh.

At this point you can use latest nightly images (built after 3rd of May), build the image yourself or wait for v20.05 ;-)

[Tido]

  On 5/27/2020 at 6:53 AM, smartwell said:

it needs 2 mintues, so ....... what can i do ?

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search the forum for example for people with similar problems like:  https://forum.armbian.com/topic/9226-rockpi-4b-board-bring-up/?do=findComment&comment=100696

 

 

  On 5/27/2020 at 9:20 PM, piter75 said:

use latest nightly images (built after 3rd of May),

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https://dl.armbian.com/rockpi-4b/nightly/

 

[smartwell]

i tried stop bluetooth.service, yes start up is fast

i try  latest nightly images , it is ok, thanks everyone， armbian is a great job

 

@Igor interesting thing: when i  erase SPI boot loader, board can't boot up, so i update SPI flash with bootloader , the latest images works fine, so ...........

 

next question:   how to rotate screen ? now i just know xrandr, it is not efficient method.

Edited May 28, 2020 by smartwell