Hi community, looking for some help…
Just got my Rock 5 model A and I can’t get it to boot to the desktop, have tried various images from this site but none of them work, once the image is burn to an SD card and the board is powered up all I get is a screen full of code, no desktop…
Any ideas?
What are the various images you tested and what that “screen of code” looks like? If you can’t copy, send a photo.
Thanks for responding.
I’ve downloaded and tried the following images from the Radxa and Okdo sites:
rock-5a_debian_bullseye_kde_b16.img
rock-5a_debian_bullseye_kde_b17.img
rock-5a_debian_bullseye_kde_b18.img
And for all of them I get this:
At one point I saw the Debian logo and a spinning loader icon but it went back to showing just code…
Try armbian or Joshua Riek’s Ubuntu. What you’re seeing here is a bootloader not finding the root partition. You can probably fix it easily but what is even easier is to use these distros. Also, make sure to completely wipe the SD card before flashing (it can be a quick format).
The page for the armbian rock 5 A image is down, 404 page not found, so I tried Joshua Riek’s Ubuntu image, slightly different screen but still the same end result, any ideas?
I also made sure to format the SD card.
Thanks
Hmm. Is your SD card large enough for the image? It definitely can’t find a partition (but also un your first photo, many other things were failing)
Card is big enough, I’ve tried 2, a 16gb and an 8gb, same results with both and both are SanDisk Ultra cards…
On both photos the kernel complains on read errors on the SD-Card. Try another card, possibly also another brand. If this does not help, the SD slot might be somehow broken.
If you have an emmc and a writer try it. It is even possible to write the image through USB in maskrom mode, but this is not a beginner’s task. Try another SD card first.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I believe this board doesn’t like SanDisk SD cards! Now works perfectly on non SanDisk cards…
My supplier has kindly offered to send me an eMMC module which I’m looking forward to testing as an alternative to an SD card.
