rock 5b not booting after switching to kernel 6.7

[swaan]

I wanted to upgrade from the previous release to the current one. apt update & apt upgrade and reboot worked fine but I noticed it was still on the 5.10 kernel so I used the config utility to switch to 6.7 and now I can't get a display output on HDMI 1 or 2 and its not getting an IP address either. I'm booting from M.2 NVME. Is there any way to fix my setup?

[swaan]

I think the new release just doesn't work for me as it won't boot of the sd card either with 6.7 but does with the previous Armbian_23.8.1_Rock-5b_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160.img

[Werner]

5.10.y sources are based on rockchip bsp while 6.7 is bleeding edge mainline. Issues are to be expected.

 

[swaan]

I think the armbian config tool upgraded to 6.1 and not 6.7 as I thought. Anyway I got it working again by getting the 5.10 kernel from the sd.

Edited December 4, 2023 by swaan

[l080]

I was installing today armbian on my rock5b.

It looks like kernel 6.7.. doesn't load /dev/mtdblock0 . I guess this is why you could not boot from nvme.

[scolbeck]

I also had a problem with the 6.7 kernel not creating /dev/mtdblock0.  Switching to the nightly 6.8 kernel fixed it for me.

[chandlerkc]

On 1/27/2024 at 7:07 PM, scolbeck said:

I also had a problem with the 6.7 kernel not creating /dev/mtdblock0.  Switching to the nightly 6.8 kernel fixed it for me.

Same thing happening to me, I can only boot from microSD card. But in my case switching to 6.8 kernel is not solving the issue

[scolbeck]

Try 6.8-rc1.  That one worked for me but I also had problems with other ones like 6.8-rc5 so reverted back to 6.8-rc1.