Armbian install on Orange Pi 5 Plus - black screen

[Igor V]

I followed the provided instructions to install Arbmbian on Orange Pi 5 Plus 16GB, so I downloaded the official Ubuntu image from the Orange Pi website, and when it booted, it 

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mtd-utils
sudo flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0

 

The flash operation was finished successfully. Then I turned off, loaded Armbian Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) (Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12) on SD and started the machine. I have a monitor connected to the machine, but there is no output. My router doesn't show any new network device, so I suppose that Armbian doesn't load. It's exactly the same situation when I tried to install Armbian without /dev/mtd0 erasing.

 

How to proceed and install Armbian?

 

Update:

Armbian has been installed successfully. After cleaning bootloader as descried above, I tried to install Joshua Riek's distribution and it loaded. Then I returned back to Armbian downloads and tried Armbian 24.11.2 Noble Gnome with kernel 6.1.75 (the one highlighted) and it worked! And I migrated everything to eMMC by using armbian-config - that was easy.

 

So to summarize - I'm not sure that /dev/mtd0 cleanup was really required, but I did it. The problem was with the distribution I tried to run. Armbian Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) (Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12) was the wrong choice.

Edited December 10, 2024 by Igor V