unable to get a working kernel with armbian build

[Fabricio Martínez Tamayo]

Hi,

 

I have attempted to boot with edge and current branches with no success. I am now trying vendor since its what its running.

 

My process is: 

 

./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel-config

 

I enable tunneling GRE and some broadcom wifi drivers.

 

./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi5pro BRANCH=current kernel

 

sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-image-*.deb
sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-headers-*.deb
sudo dpkg -i output/debs/linux-dtb-*.deb

 

sudo reboot

 

and after this the system does not boot or post through HDMI.

 

I have to go back and erase /boot and restore a backup to be able to get it working again.

 

What am I missing?

 

P.S. I have /boot partition in SD card and the system partition is in an NVME drive.

Edited Sunday at 07:42 PM by Fabricio Martínez Tamayo

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[Igor]

1 hour ago, Fabricio Martínez Tamayo said:

does not boot or post through HDMI.

HDMI output might be broken on this kernel - mainline support is still fragile, perhaps for this board there is no device tree yet and it fails early.

[The Tall Man]

On 8/24/2025 at 4:46 PM, Igor said:

perhaps for this board there is no device tree yet

I have a different Orange PI board, but I have two partitiions of Armbian installed (25.8.1), one with the edge kernel, the other with the current (mainline) kernel. I checked my /boot/dtb/rockchip/ directories in each for the Orange PI 5 Pro, and there is a device tree for it with the edge kernel (rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro.dtb), but not with the current kernel.

Perhaps a question would be:
Is that devicetree (.dtb file) being utilized with the edge kernel? Might be worth looking into.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by The Tall Man

[Igor]

2 hours ago, The Tall Man said:

but not with the current kernel.

Quite possible, actually expected as there is no support for current kernel:
https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/boards/orangepi5pro.csc#L8 and build target is not maintained by core Armbian team https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/#community-maintained