RockPI4 not booting Manjaro

#1

Hello,
I have RockPi 4B v1.3, once I burn an sd card with Etcher the latest image of debian (rockpi4-debian-stretch-desktop-arm64-20190730_2022-gpt.img.gz), it boots perfectly, but once I burn the image of Manjaro (Manjaro-ARM-lxqt-rockpi4-19.06.img.xz), only the green light stays on and nothing is happening, apparently it does not boot at all.
As I saw, debian is having 4 or 5 partitions as manjaro is coming only with one.
Am I doing something wrong and where can be the problem with it?
Do I have to solder SPI flash chip and to flash it to make it work or any other reasons why that can happen?

#2

Hello hisinfernal,
Boot Manjaro not need solder SPI flash chip,you can use ‘md5sum Manjaro-ARM-lxqt-rockpi4-19.06.img’ command to see is it md5 code equal to cbb8de130b8d4f19cf4e4ebd169c5b5d.

#3

Yes, the md5sum is the same. I’ve tried to use Etcher and dd as well, but when I am plugging sd card with Manjaro, only green light is on, and nothing else is blinking.

Maybe you will have some other ideas?

#4

If only green led is on, then the loader in spi is not running.
We are not sure the rkbin version of Manjaro use.
@Jubian Do you know it?

#5

I have version Rock Pi 4 4gb v1.3 so, I have no SPI flash chip.
Manjaro version which was downloaded, was from radxa download section and with name of: “Manjaro-ARM-lxqt-rockpi4-19.06.img”

#6

@jack @Jubian @hisinfernal Has anyone managed to get Manjaro KDE working? I have a v1.3 board and trying to boot from the SD card. Is it working on later model boards? If not, why is it hosted on the Radxa site?

#7

@jack @Jubian @strangeways I still was not able to boot it up on my v1.3 (without SPI) rock pi 4 4gb version…
Basically once you plug in sdcard only green led is on, red is not blinking. Maybe somebody managed to get some solution for this problem?

#8

Hi,

Latest version of Manjaro Xfce (19.10 and 19.12) works here. I have a Rock Pi 4 v 1.3.

If you have eMMC card also attached, try removing it before booting from SD.

And to check where it might be failing, would suggest to get compatible a USB serial cable.

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