Trying to figure out whats wrong with my radxa zero

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This line indicates you are still running Android bootloader, which is not compatible with Linux. Try sudo boot-g12.py radxa-zero-erase-emmc.bin again, and after the program is finished, wait for additional 10 seconds for the code to run in your board. You should be able to lsblk and find a new USB storage device. You can then flash Linux images to it.