Hard Brick After Failed Armbian Upgrade (Jammy to Noble)

[Lekshmi]

Subject: [R58X] Hard Brick After Failed Armbian Upgrade (Jammy to Noble)

 

Hello,

 

My Mekotronics R58X running Armbian Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) hard-bricked after a failed attempt to upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble).

Initial Failure: The upgrade crashed, and the device would not boot/log in properly .

 

Recovery Attempt: I successfully flashed a new Ubuntu 24.04 image using the official Mekotronics documentation/tool.

 

Current Status: After the flash completed successfully and the device went offline, it is now completely dead.

It will not power on.

No LED activity.

I cannot enter recovery mode (Loader or MaskROM) using standard methods.

It appears the device is hard-bricked, possibly due to bootloader corruption. Has anyone recovered an R58X from a similar state?

 

Thank you for your help.

[Werner]

moved

[Lekshmi]

moved meaning???

 

[Werner]

moved to the appropriate place

[Lekshmi]

Hi,

 

Thank you for responding, but honestly I didn’t understand the solution you mentioned. My R58X is still completely dead after flashing, with no power, no LEDs, and no way to enter Loader or MaskROM mode.

 

Could you please provide a clear step-by-step method to bring the device back to life?

Right now I only need a solution to power on the device and make it work again.

The reply was “moved to the appropriate place”, but I still didn’t get the actual fix.

 

Please guide me on how to recover the board.

 

Thank you.

[Werner]

I never mentioned any solution. Moving your post to an appropriate location is a forum moderation task and the post was FYI only.

I don't have this board nor do I know how to fix it.