Symptoms:
Board does not boot Armbian from inserted SD card, but may boot other distributions (based on old/legacy u-boot).
Following or similar output can be grabbed from the serial console:
U-Boot SPL 2017.01-armbian (Feb 02 2017 - 03:04:04)
DRAM: 2048 MiB
Trying to boot from MMC1MMC: no card present
spl: mmc init failed with error: -123
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
The key message here is "MMC: no card present"