December 25, 2016

Orange Pi PC 2 - Armbian

The bottom line is that this is too bleeding edge at this time. People were just getting boards and samples in mid November.

The PC 2 is based on the 64 bit H5 soc (which is a lot like the A64). The only A64 board supported by Armbian at this time is the Pine64.

Try the Armbian PC Plus image

The bottom line is that this does not work. No surprise. The lights on the board don't even come on.

I download the Armbian image and slap it onto a flash card (8G). 

7za e Armbian_5.20_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112.7z
dd if=Armbian_5.20_Orangepipcplus_Debian_jessie_3.4.112.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
1490+0 records in
1490+0 records out
1562378240 bytes (1.6 GB, 1.5 GiB) copied, 199.075 s, 7.8 MB/s
After doing the copy, I unplug and replug the card reader. It mounts only one partition: 
mount
/dev/sdc1 on /run/media/tom/fcfae66c-c4b3-4644-bd87-0d12155c0f26 type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,...

fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 7.4 GiB, 7948206080 bytes, 15523840 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x3f31f47d

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1        2048 3051519 3049472  1.5G 83 Linux
No FAT partition, that is interesting. So into the unit it goes. Connect a serial cable and my 5 volt power supply. This does not work. Well it was interesting to try.

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