missing armbi_boot

[Genadi Manoilenko]

Hello everyone,
I am new to Armbian and need some help.

 

I tried to install Armbian 26.2.0-trunk (https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo/#collapse-widget-5-0-0-0) on a NanoPi NEO Core SBC. I used Armbian Imager and wrote the latest official image (the only one available) to the SD card.

After writing the image, I see only one partition on the SD card named armbi_root. When I insert the card into the device and power it on, nothing happens — there are no boot messages or logs. I think the image is missing a bootloader.

 

So my questions are:

1) If I’m right that the bootloader is missing, how can I add a bootloader to the image?

2) How can I apply OverlayFS to this setup?

3) Do you have a link to a good article or tutorial on these topics?

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited 8 hours ago by Genadi Manoilenko

[eselarm]

in the root of the rootfs do:

find . -name platform_install.sh
find . -name u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

essentially construct correct dd arguments

 

somethings else might be wrong though, so make sure you have a serial console/debug able with loglevel=7

[Genadi Manoilenko]

Hi, eselarm.

i did not have time to delete the topic. Somehow it started working. Thank you for your time.