hough Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I have been trying to install armbian and run from usb flash. every time i can get through the installer (it usually freezes at 2 3 or 4 percent when it does make it all the way it hangs on reboot. i have tried different usb drives even a cf card. also i read the instructions on which image to use but i am lost as to which one is which. i understand the small images are the headless but the desktop versions i am not sure of the differences. here is a list of the available images. i don't understand the differences in the versions. archive2018-04-05 14:013.9 GB nightly2018-01-28 16:29609 B Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z.torrent2018-04-05 15:1841 KB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_next.7z.torrent2018-04-05 15:1732 KB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_default_desktop.7z.torrent2018-04-05 15:1741 KB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_default.7z.torrent2018-04-05 15:1733 KB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_default_desktop.7z2018-04-05 13:57522.1 MB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_default.7z2018-04-05 13:36211.4 MB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z2018-04-05 13:27528.1 MB Nanopik-s_Ubuntu_xenial_next.7z2018-04-05 13:00204.9 MB Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z.torrent2018-01-30 04:0329 KB Ubuntu_xenial_next.7z.torrent2018-01-30 04:0345 KB Ubuntu_xenial_default_desktop.7z.torrent2018-01-30 04:0330 KB Ubuntu_xenial_default.7z.torrent2018-01-30 04:0343 KB Debian_jessie_default.7z.torrent2018-01-30 04:0340 KB Ubuntu_xenial_next_desktop.7z2018-01-28 16:35561.0 MB Ubuntu_xenial_next.7z2017-12-12 09:05243.0 MB Ubuntu_xenial_default_desktop.7z2017-11-25 04:11589.5 MB Ubuntu_xenial_default.7z2017-11-25 04:05234.5 MB Debian_jessie_default.7z2017-11-25 04:00208.9 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 https://dl.armbian.com/nanopik2/archive/ Look whatever under 5.42 ... it should work but this board is "work in progress". Random freezing is usually a sign of a bad power supply. Check that first. How do you power the board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 thanks for the response. i have tried various power micro usb cords and power supplies. to rule out the power supply i also have used the barrel jack with the same results. i will try one of those images. if i still have issues i will try hooking up a scope and see what kind of ripple i'm getting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 3 hours ago, hough said: thanks for the response. i have tried various power micro usb cords and power supplies. to rule out the power supply i also have used the barrel jack with the same results. i will try one of those images. if i still have issues i will try hooking up a scope and see what kind of ripple i'm getting. Everyone seems to have a scope but me... :-( I have a bad feeling I know what this is, stay tuned. I probably need to reapply a patch to the device tree after the kernel shuffle. gxbb based boards are also affected by that memory allocation bug that was fixed for gxl, I should work on getting mainline u-boot implemented ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 all, 5.35 will not boot just black screen no cursor. 5.37 finishes with an error prior to reboot didn't get a chance to write it down 5.38 finishes install errors out: "cant read /boot/boot.ini no such file or directory" then it updates the with a reboot prompt. I can exit out to the prompt and still have access to the system but once it reboots the screen is blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Tried 5.38 again using etcher as opposed to win32disk imager. Still received the cant read message but on reboot it went to a black flashing cursor. should I be enabling some special permissions before I run armbian-config or is there anything I can do before reboot to fix the boot.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 i tried changing the mbr to gpt and installing and i received the same error. reboot to flashing cursor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 To my knowledge that u-boot is incapable of booting from USB media. Until I switch to mainline that won't change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hough Posted May 25, 2018 Author Share Posted May 25, 2018 not sure what you said just now but i did discover a problem totally unrelated i was missing d4 sod303. turns out zener diodes are important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMac32 Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 11 minutes ago, hough said: was missing d4 sod303. turns out zener diodes are important. You could say that... As far as what I said. ;-). The bootloader on K2 with Armbian is a binary blob from a 2015 release of the bootloader, with some modifications by the SoC vendor. It does not support a lot of things that are common today. Mainline is the current release and actively maintained version of the bootloader, it doesn't have "plug and play" support for this board but it does for a nearly identical board from another company, and it supports all the interesting boot methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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