can't get quartz64-A working

[jyoung]

I've tried to get a quartz64-A up and running with numerous images (manjaro, plebian, gentoo), and I'm not getting any response from it. The power LED comes on and some of the images light the heartbeat LED, but I don't get a video output, my router doesn't detect a new device on the network (I've attached it via ethernet), and I'm not able to get a response from the uart/usb interface (I'm new to uart, so I'm not 100% sure on this point). I've tried booting off a eMMC and microSD. I checked the microSD with badblocks to see if it was corrupt, but it checks out.

Any recommendations?

Please share the exact experience with each image.

I only have experience with Plebian, so the following (only) applies to that:
- Which (exact) image version/release did you download? Did you verify the download with the checksum?
- Plebian resizes the partition/filesystem on first boot, so that can take a bit longer.
- https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Quartz64#Co...Debug_UART describes how to connect the UART; it should work on Model A, so you should get output

I just tried the "Pine Quartz64 A" image from Armbian

github.com/armbian/build/releases/

There was no HDMI video output that I could detect, and my router did not detect a new device on the network (the board was plugged in directly). I tried flashing the image to the eMMC and the microSD card. There was no heartbeat LED, although I have seen that with some other images. I just tried mounting the microSD card's partition on my desktop, and there's no /var/log/messages file, which suggests that the board didn't boot up.

Although I did not attempt to connect via uart this time, when I've done so in the past I've followed that wiki's information on the pin connections. I'm using this device

circuit.rocks/usb-to-ttl-serial-cable-debug-console-cable-raspberry-pi.html

And, as per the wiki, connecting the black socket to pin 6, the green to pin 8, and the white to pin 10.