RADXA Cubie A5E 1GB RAM Armbian CLI stucks while uboot via sdcard

[chapeaufer]

hello i have a new sbc board cubie a5e 1GB Ram starting via sdcard 32GB  and tried to boot it with armbian cli image.
Very early while the boards stuck with:

 

RADXA Cubie A5E 1GB RAM Armbian CLI stuck while uboot via sdcard

 

seems to be an issue with the uboot which hangs very early. 

 

With original debian image from radxa the board is b ooting and running. But i intend to use the armbian version with newer debian and kernel.

 

 

What can i do?

 

Regards Rolf

 

[Werner]

try DIY image with this pr on top of main: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/9626

[chapeaufer]

Problem remains the same. 

i have cloned a new build repos and patch with pr-9626 and rebuild image.
console output result remains:

U-Boot SPL 2026.01_armbian-2026.01-S127a-Pa547-Hc6a9-V2b7c-Bd0d2-R448a (May 18 2026 - 10:12:32 +0200)

DRAM: 1024 MiB

Something wrong with the uboot timing of the dram etc.? 

 

i can supplied the timing and trimming of the board with the funtional debian bootloader saved to spi. Setting of voltage regulators etc.  see attached file.

Regards Rolf

 

hardcopy.0

[chapeaufer]

I found information indicating that the 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB RAM versions use different DRAM memory chips, which appears to cause incorrect startup settings on the 1GB version.

Details can be found here:
https://luotianyi.vc/8777.html

I therefore decided to return the board and wait until the 2GB or 4GB versions become available again.

 

Rolf