installing Armbian Bookworm on Radxa Rock 5 ITX with NVMe m.2 SSD

[justanothernoob]

hi there,

 

I'm a complete Linux noob so please forgive my ignorance. But I do have 25+ years experience in IT so am relatively conversant with basic principles - so please be patient   I did try to search for any previous threads but couldn't find any.

 

I'm trying to setup a RADXA Rock 5 ITX with OpenMediaVault for my NAS.

I have a 2TB NVMe m.2 SSD that I'll use for the OS.

For the NAS storage I'm using 4x Western Digital 16TB SATA III drives.

 

I downloaded the Armbian 25.2.2 bootable image from https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5-itx/ and used Balena Etcher (the legit version from Balena-io) to make my bootable microSD card.

When I boot, I receive an error message of "failed to mount /dev/mount/mmcblk0p1 as root file system"

I'm guessing this is because there is no emmc on this board other than what's provided for RooibOS flash?

 

Do I just need to reconfigure the Armbian Bookworm setup script to use / look for the NVMe m.2 SSD instead of the emmc? If so, is there a way to do that on a Windows PC? If not, I may just have to go with the standard RooibOS install using Armbian Noble just to get a Linux system up and running, then edit the Armbian setup script, reflash the Rock 5 ITX and start again?

 

Or is there something else I'm missing?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

[laibsch]

7 hours ago, justanothernoob said:

I'm guessing this is because there is no emmc on this board other than what's provided for RooibOS flash?

 

Do I just need to reconfigure the Armbian Bookworm setup script to use / look for the NVMe m.2 SSD instead of the emmc? If so, is there a way to do that on a Windows PC? If not, I may just have to go with the standard RooibOS install using Armbian Noble just to get a Linux system up and running, then edit the Armbian setup script, reflash the Rock 5 ITX and start again?

 

Apologies, but what is RooibOS?  I'm sure it's got nothing to do with tea ;-)

[justanothernoob]

DOH! Typo ... RoobiOS

[laibsch]

aww, too bad.  I kinda like the tea distribution. ;-)

 

regardless, I still can't find a reference as to what it really is.