Radxa Rock 5t idbloader.img and u-boot.itb Error

[Falood]

I got a radxa rock 5t and trying to install armbian(https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5t), arimbian NOT boot and I can see the indicator light on the board is showing a steady green light.

I boot with the official image https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5t/low-level-dev/maskrom/linux and insert the sd card(with armbian img), and run such command, then I can boot armbian from SD card

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000
sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000
sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc
sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=16384 conv=notrunc

 

BTW, it seems there's no rock-5t tag, so I selected the 5b one

 

[laibsch]

not sure, but sounds like a boot order issue?

 

@meco, I believe you are the maintainer for this board, aren't you?

[Falood]

I also tried 

 

sudo dd if=official_rock5t_image.img of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000
sudo dd if=official_rock5t_image.img of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000
sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=armbian_image.img bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc
sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=armbian_image.img bs=512 seek=16384 conv=notrunc

 

then burn the img into the SD card, also be able to boot.

I got the official image from https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5t/releases

 

but there's another issue, the hardware acceleration does NOT work in armbian, Mali-G610 is not in use

[meco]

I'll look into this

[swthpk32]

Same here, just downloaded this image for the Rock5T https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5t/Noble_vendor_server and put it on a SD card with Etcher, 5T Wont boot, wont do anything.

[laibsch]

On 8/2/2025 at 9:20 PM, meco said:

I'll look into this

 

Just came across this and thought maybe it can help you guys in getting better board support.  No idea ;-)