Problem Description
I burned the freedombox-bullseye-free_all-arm64.img and freedombox-testing-free_latest_all-arm64.img to a eMMC card and tried to boot my rockpro64 from it.
the system does not boot
Steps to Reproduce
download an image linked from the rockpro64 page
write it to an eMMC chip with a usb eMMC reader writer
install chip on rockpro64
apply power
no booting happens
Expected Results
I expected it to boot
Actual results
green light turns on and Ethernet lights turn on but the white led never turns on and the board never boots
Information
FreedomBox version: latest stable and testing image
Hardware: rockpro64
How did you install FreedomBox?: wrote image to emmc
I believe this is a known problem with some images on the Rockpro64
The image you used is a generic FreedomBox image for ARM64 devices which does not ship with device-specific firmware. Please refer to the section “2. Hardware Supported with Generic Images” in the following wiki page. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware
The same is also mentioned on the download page of the website.
I made the same mistake like @freepm because when clicking on “download”, one gets to RockPro64 | FreedomBox - Personal Server at Home that does not mention flashing SPI and clicking on the question mark just tells you to verify and just below flash what you have downloaded.
Then I tried making an SD card for debian, with the firmware part and the partition.img, the keyboard and the mouse connected to the RockPro64 show some light but the screen says “no signal” and nothing happens.
So not sure how to install Freedombox or Debian on this board.
I set up the serial out to usb adapter like was recomended on the how to flash the spi page. Without it the flashing and the parts of the normal boot dont show up. It seems I need to use a keyboard to move the boot along at a couple points. just pressing enter but still needs user input