Armbian Bionic on Pine A64+ black screen

[starmagoo]

I tried to flash the latest Armbian (Armbian_5.50.180630_Pine64_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_4.17.3) on my A64+. When starting I get the following message:



Anybody have any idea what might go wrong? I know it's not stable yet.
After that message I get a black screen.

regards

[Luke]

If you don't get a response on here, then I suggest you try Armbian forum.

[starmagoo]

If you don't get a response on here, then I suggest you try Armbian forum.

Ok I will try.

[starmagoo]

For you to know, I started a post in the Armbian Forum.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/7844-arm...ice-error/

It looks like the image cannot boot from the SD-Card.
At least according to the error messages.

Loading Environment from FAT... ** Bad Device mmc 0 **
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... Failed (-5)

[paradise]

I tried to flash the latest Armbian (Armbian_5.50.180630_Pine64_Ubuntu_bionic_dev_4.17.3) on my A64+. When starting I get the following message:



Anybody have any idea what might go wrong? I know it's not stable yet.
After that message I get a black screen.

regards

Simplefb is the Framebuffer driver..
You are using the wrong image.. your image is for a device with a different type of framebuffer.
Try another image.

[starmagoo]

I would like to but there is no other image.

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/

[evilbunny]

I would like to but there is no other image.

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/

Did you see this one?

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64so/

[paradise]

http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Try some stuff with A64+ in the name.. if it works find the DTB file and use that to fix other distributions.

[starmagoo]

Did you see this one?

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64so/

Yes, these images don't work. I don't even get a boot screen.

http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Try some stuff with A64+ in the name.. if it works find the DTB file and use that to fix other distributions.

What exactly do you mean? 
I found out that the DTB (Device Tree Blob) is a file which describes all the physical devices in a system. Right? How can I find it and where should I put it?

[paradise]

Did you see this one?

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64so/

Yes, these images don't work. I don't even get a boot screen.

http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pine_A6...re_Release

Try some stuff with A64+ in the name.. if it works find the DTB file and use that to fix other distributions.

What exactly do you mean? 
I found out that the DTB (Device Tree Blob) is a file which describes all the physical devices in a system. Right? How can I find it and where should I put it?

Most of the distro's put it in the msdos boot partition in the folder dtb or overlays 

Example Linux (some jesse version)

Code:

root@SuperBSD:/ # ls /mnt/msdos/
Image.version* boot.cmd*      bootlogo.bmp*  font32.sft*    kernel*        uEnv.txt*      
bat/           boot.scr*      font24.sft*    initrd.img*    pine64/        
root@SuperBSD:/ # ls /mnt/msdos/pine64/
boot0-pine64-pinebook.bin*      fes1-pine64-pinebook.bin*       sun50i-a64-pine64-pinebook.dtb* u-boot-pine64-pinebook.bin*
boot0-pine64-plus.bin*          fes1-pine64-plus.bin*           sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb*     u-boot-pine64-plus.bin*
boot0-pine64-sopine.bin*        fes1-pine64-sopine.bin*         sun50i-a64-pine64-sopine.dtb*   u-boot-pi

You will want sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb for your device
Also make sure to check the u-boot/kerel messages and try and figure out what dtb file it's loading so you get/replace the right one. 

ps. Linux DTB will most likely not work with BSD and vise versa.
ps2. You can also edit your DTB I don't know the command in Linux but FreeBSD I use

extract: dtc -O dts -I dtb -o sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dts sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb
edit with some text editor
extract: dtc -O dtb -I dts -o sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dts