Cannot get Orange Pi 5 to boot

[SmoothCriminal75]

I recently bought a used OrangePi 5, when it arrived it had a working Ubuntu image on an SD card.

 

I decided to format the card and put my own image of Armbian on the card using the Armbian imager. when installed the card would no longer boot. lights on board but black screen no HDMI output.

I tried several different SD cards and different images all with the same result (A1 Sandisk cards)

 

Eventually I tried a hail mary and put an Armbian image on a really old USB thumb stick and it immediately booted and worked just fine.

 

I tried putting the OrangePi os on one of my SD cards for kicks and it gets HDMI output but is just stuck on the OrangePi splash screen

 

When I insert the SD card while running on the USB thumb drive image I can view the partitions and see that the OS image is correctly installed on the SD. 

 

I can't figure out where I'm going wrong, am I having a bootloader compatability issue with armbian?

[SmoothCriminal75]

Forgot to mention, it will boot the SD card image from a USB adapter.

[Werner]

which image did you try?

 

[Werner]

Tried booting cli minimal with vendor kernel from microsd, boots just fine.

How to debug boot issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpVMO7gbnYM

[SmoothCriminal75]

This one

 

Armbian_26.5.1_Orangepi5_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img

[Werner]

Then my guess was correct. That's the image I tested a few minutes ago.

https://paste.armbian.com/enadozucir

[eselarm]

4 hours ago, SmoothCriminal75 said:

from a USB

this means bootloader in SPI-flash is used

if armbian is booted from sd-card slot, the armbian bootloader from sd-card it used, at least that is what i think

 

so you can wipe spi-flash or wriie a working bootloader in there

[Werner]

11 hours ago, eselarm said:

this means bootloader in SPI-flash is used

Yes, true. Meaning dirty spi

 

11 hours ago, eselarm said:

if armbian is booted from sd-card slot, the armbian bootloader from sd-card it used, at least that is what i think

Yes and no. If SPI is detected and valid it is used. However if this one detects a microsd card with a boot loader it will chain-load this one to ultimately load the os from microsd.

Having mixups between vendor and mainline u-boot and/or mixed blobs (like ddr training) this will much likely cause issues.