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I know this sounds strange, but I cannot get any of the images to boot.  
I have an R3S non-LTS + SD card. It works well with the stock images from FriendlyElec, but none of the Armbian images I tried will boot.  

I tried different tools to write the SD (BalenaEtcher, USBImager, Rufus), but nothing changed. When I tried to read the SD card with Armbian on my x86 laptop running Debian, the system didn’t recognize any proper partitions (maybe that’s normal, maybe not—I don’t know). But when I write an Armbian image for Allwinner NanoPi, the partitions are detected correctly.  

And finally, I can’t connect to the debug UART, so I can’t get any logs.  

I feel the solution should be simple, but I need help with this.

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Armbian's archives can be uncompressed with 7-Zip on Windows, Keka on OS X and 7z on Linux.

 

Images shall only be written with imaging tools that validate burning results.  This saves you from corrupted SD card contents.

 

Approved Tools:

  • USBImager a lightweight cross-platform imaging tool
  • Balena Etcher an electron / node.js based cross-platform imaging tool (may contain spyware)

Did the validation of you burning the image succeed?

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Yes, validation always succsess.
I tried even different SD cards (brand new Sandisk). After Armbian fails to boot I write stock friendlyelec image by the same tool and stock image always properly boot

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@OleksandrK

3 hours ago, OleksandrK said:

the system didn’t recognize any proper partitions (maybe that’s normal, maybe not—I don’t know)

I wrote both the Bookworm and Noble img and in both cases the partition table looked fine.

 

I booted the Noble img;

    _             _    _           
   /_\  _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _  
  / _ \| '_| '  \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ 
 /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_|
                                   
 v25.8.1 for NanoPi R3S LTS running Armbian Linux 6.12.41-current-rockchip64

 Packages:     Ubuntu stable (noble)
 IPv4:         (LAN) 10.0.0.xxx (WAN) xx.xxx.xxx.xx 
 IPv6:         2601:xx:xxx:a200::b05b, 2601:xx:xxx:a200:510c:3033:d120:7b0d (WAN) 2601:xx:xxx:a200:e489:6cce:bd44:57dc 

 Performance:  

 Load:         25%           	 Uptime:       1 min	
 Memory usage: 8% of 1.92G  	
 CPU temp:     30°C           	 Usage of /:   10% of 29G    	
 RX today:     127 KiB        	
 Commands: 

 Configuration : armbian-config
 Monitoring    : htop

Last login: Fri Aug 22 09:00:15 2025 from 10.0.0.36
root@nanopi-r3s-lts:~# 

 

As asked before, did you decompress the img before writing? 

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