Can't boot rock pi 4B+

#1

Hello,

Can’t boot my rock pi 4B+ from sd, I just get the green light, no sign of booting.

Here is my configuration : ROCK PI 4B+ 4G DDR / 64G eMMC just received from Ali Express

JOMFEEN USB Power adapter model SDC 001 QC 3.0
5V-9V/2A 9V-12V/1.5A

micro SD-card PANY HC 10 32Gb

I used etcher to flash Armbian22.05.0 image on SD-card

I would be grateful for any suggestion : should I try another power adapter ? another SD-card ? another os ?

Thank you very much in advance for your help.

alphanet

#2

Hi Alphanet,

I had the same problem at first. I don’t think etcher is very reliable (or windows, which I was using to try and burn the sd card at the beginning).

Anyway this worked for me:

wget https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rockpi4b-images/releases/download/22.04/Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rockpi4b-22.04.img.xz

unxz Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rockpi4b-22.04.img.xz

sudo dd if=Manjaro-ARM-minimal-rockpi4b-22.04.img of=/dev/[device] bs=4M

(where [device] is your SD card’s device, as seen by lsblk. Usually mmcblk0 or sdb).

Good luck!
Brett.

#3

Hello brett_m,

Thank you very much for your message and for sharing your successful solution.

I’m going to apply your method and hope that this will also work for me.

Best regards.

alphanet