Orange Pi 5 Max SD card booting issue, system normally starts from NVME SSD

[alarik]

Hi.

I've got a strange issue. When Orange Pi 5 Max was unavailable I installed version for Orange Pi 5 Pro from SD card to NVME SSD. It worked fine Now I decided for fresh install of Armbian dedicated to Max board but I can't boot from SD card.

 

I used exactly the same card and the same power supply as when I installed armbian originally, but when I insert SD card, led goes blue and system is not booting. I don't have any signal on HDMI - monitor goes sleep. When I remove SD card - system boots from SSD and all is working. I removed SSD but system still can't boot from SD card.

 

Do you know any method to boot from SD card or install armbian image in other way? For now I'm considering buying nvme usb case and clonning img directly to ssd but I'd like to avoid that as I don't know if that will work.

Edited May 17 by alarik
making subject more specific

[Werner]

5 hours ago, alarik said:

I don't have any signal on HDMI - monitor goes sleep

This is not uncommon. Very few boards have hdmi support at boot level since developing this feature is expensive and simply not worth since the console output is also available via debug serial console where adapters for those are dirt cheap.

To get an idea what happens inside you have to grab these logs and provide them.

https://debug.armbian.de

[alarik]

Thank you for replying me back and the hint.

I ordered USB to TTL module Today. I'll debug and get back to you.

 

Best regards

alarik.

[nnq1612]

I also encountered the same situation. I wrote the Ubuntu Orange Pi 5 Max image from the Orange Pi homepage (http://www.orangepi.org/) and it ran normally, but when I wrote the Armbian Ubuntu version from https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5-max/, the indicator light was only green and nothing appeared on the screen.

I also tried writing the Armbian version for the regular Orange Pi 5 or Orange Pi 5 Pro and it could run (although wifi and usb were lost, but I could boot to the desktop), but when I wrote the Armbian version for the Orange Pi 5 Max, it did not run.
Is it a bootloader problem?

Edited 14 hours ago by nnq1612

[Werner]

2 hours ago, nnq1612 said:

Is it a bootloader problem?

Same answer as above. Without serial logs impossible to debug.

It leaves to mention that this board is not officially supported but configuration has been provided by a community effort. Board status is unknown to the core Armbian team.