Trixie/Rock 5B+ - Can't burn it on my nvme drive

[Tantalum]

Hello

 

I have burned bookworm onto a sd card,booted on it with a Rock 5B+ and installed the bootloader on the SPI flash of the board and transferred the OS to the nvme drive.

 

Now I I'm trying to install the new trixie image, but I can't burn it on my nvme drive.

 

With USBImage it does not work. It doesn't detect my nvme drive installed on my USB adapter.

With belena Etcher it throws an error during the validation of the image.

Win32Imager doesn't load at all on Windows 11.

 

I don't know which other tool (Windows) I could use.

 

I'm stuck. How can I boot again from my SD card on a Rock 5b+?

[Werner]

Just boot from microsd and then use armbian-install to move image to spi/nvme directly attached?

[Tantalum]

But it doesn't boot from the SD card anymore 😕

 

The bootloader is expecting the OS on the NVME drive.

[Werner]

Can you provide logs?

[Tantalum]

Logs from what?

It doesn't boot from SD, I have a blank screen.

 

Should I erase the SPI ROM to make it boot from the SD again?

https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5b/low-level-dev/install-os/rkdevtool_spi

[Werner]

7 minutes ago, Tantalum said:

Should I erase the SPI ROM to make it boot from the SD again?

This should work too.

 

Debug boot issues: https://debug.armbian.de

 

Related perhaps: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8994

[Tantalum]

I have erased the SPI ROM.

It boots from the SD Card now, thanks :-)

 

But now I have another problem 😕

 

It boots, it start to load Trixie, but after 30s it get stuck here:

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Tantalum

[Werner]

edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt and set verbosity to 7 to get an idea about what happens inside.

[Tantalum]

I can't mount the SD card to do the modification...

It says the GPT table is corrupt. Well that may explains why belenaEtcher throws an error. I used USBImage instead, it doesn't throw an error but the main GPT table is still corrupt.

I have tested with 2 different SD cards.

 

I believe there is a problem with these Trixie (Desktop) images for Rock 5b+.

(Yes I have checked the checksum after the download)

 

I'm currently downloading the older bookworm image to check if it works, and that there is no hardware issue.

Edited 2 hours ago by Tantalum

[Igor]

Try from here: https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/rock-5b-plus/archive/

[Tantalum]

Still not.

Debian starts to load but then gets stuck (see photo above).

 

I have tested again with a bookworm image and it worked.

 

So there may be something wrong with the trixie image unfortunately 😕