Armbian Bionic on Pine A64+ black screen
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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:

[Image: 33159061wy.jpg]

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

regards
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#2
If you don't get a response on here, then I suggest you try Armbian forum.
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(07-05-2018, 06:00 AM)Luke Wrote: If you don't get a response on here, then I suggest you try Armbian forum.

Ok I will try.
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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.

Quote:Loading Environment from FAT... ** Bad Device mmc 0 **
Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1... Failed (-5)
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(07-05-2018, 05:30 AM)starmagoo Wrote: 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:

[Image: 33159061wy.jpg]

Anybody have any idea what might go wrong? I know it's not stable yet. Smile
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.
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I would like to but there is no other image.

https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/
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(07-31-2018, 03:06 PM)starmagoo Wrote: 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/
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#8
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.
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(07-31-2018, 03:32 PM)evilbunny Wrote: Did you see this one?

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

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

(07-31-2018, 04:17 PM)paradise Wrote: 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?
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(08-01-2018, 02:31 PM)starmagoo Wrote:
(07-31-2018, 03:32 PM)evilbunny Wrote: Did you see this one?

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

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

(07-31-2018, 04:17 PM)paradise Wrote: 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
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