Armbian Imager has FLASH failure

[Lane Mitcham]

I have a Orange Pi Zero 2W and want to install a headless ( minimal ) OS.  I have tried Armbian 25.5.1.

 

I have an Ubuntu box and I have attempted to write to the SD card using Armbian ImagerImager, by selecting an image from the app as well as downloading an image to use. In both instances, I get a FLASH failure. See the attached image for the diag link.

 

Can anyone give me some insight?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lane Mitcham]

By the way, the "tag" says "solved", but that is not true.  A tag was required for submission and "solved" was the only selection available in the drop down and the text box was not editable.

[Werner]

Please report here https://github.com/armbian/imager/issues

[Lane Mitcham]

The issue was bad SD media.  Replaced the SD card and the image was written successfully.

 

Side note.  Armbian 25.5.1 does not create 2 partitions, it was designed to create only one partition.  That was confusing because most instructions for installation were still referring to 2 partitions until I stumbled on a ChatGPT answer.

[Werner]

9 hours ago, Lane Mitcham said:

Armbian 25.5.1 does not create 2 partitions, i

The boot partition presence doesn't depend directly on the Armbian version—it's determined by the board configuration. Some configs enable an extra boot partition, especially for boards using older U-Boot versions that can't boot directly from ext4. As a result, even for the same board and Armbian version, different branches (e.g., legacy, vendor, current, edge) may behave differently. Vendor branch might use an old BSP U-Boot requiring the extra partition while mainline branch uses newer U-Boot that boots straight from ext4.