Which Stable OS for a ROCK 5B?

[James Foss]

Hiya,

I am currently trying to setup some ROCK 5B boards as runners and as I install the latest Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) from here  https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b/ it seems to get to where I configure my user etc, then on the next boot it gets stuck at kernal. 

So I guess before I go through trial and error , is there a recognised most stable build that can be relaibly flashed people would recommend, I found the Rock provided Debian and KDE Plasma to be very buggy and just kept locking up on me so something with Gnome would be cool for now , but will probably move to headless much further down the line. 

Amazing community reading the messages so far so thank you for everyone who contributes!

 

[eselarm]

First tell us how your power supply looks like.

[James Foss]

haha , I have read a lot on PSU, I am currently powering through a USB-C connected to a Anker Block 

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D59JNQ9F?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

This should be overkill, but I am here to learn  

I was going to start another post as currently this board will run on an Automotive rig which is supplied 13.8V from a fairly good but dumb Bench PSU, which I know i cant feed into it, but I was tempted to ask what the arangement with the USB-C was as could i wire a basic step-down circuit for a stable 5V 5A to connect to the GPIO pins and solve this once and for all. 

I was tempted to get one of these ordered foor today to eliminate issues, but was looking for somewhere with a list of known good supplies. 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/iRasptek-Raspberry-Supply-Adapter-（White）-White/dp/B0D12H1N4L?crid=2DR00330ACZG4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yy8NlNRV8fvukOA7JVjC9ng_XPbmDtZarii93lgqL_-ToxBeH4T6raTFYwrTkmXGbv-_trvnbv0rCVrjDbhnz3JY-mW3NRzGmgg9gN_fiEasz3_8Qc6GkhIQJG3FacIhxJIy3WGUyuvKu_5iDOxOj5hveO_RctLLAn33KRTnWT1EwvHQUVfvUzfXO8fi3Y8X0CAK1pjSJNdDU86EaeE1maJK2KtMkd32uxYpUs0TDLE.wLLZXeiEdInd_jsKhSdZfBR7IoK18dfWVdL6iph7Wvs&dib_tag=se&keywords=5v+5a&qid=1763810843&sprefix=5v+5a%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-5