Unable to boot arch on cubietruck (ARM, SD)

[Michaelkmd]

Hi,

An Ubuntu upgrade to 16.04 completely trashed my cubietruck linux setup. I lost my backup, sync, music, network shares, and much more. Very uncool, but it might be an opportunity to start using Arch.

Unfortunately, although I meticulously follow the instructions located at https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv ... cubietruck on how to install Arch on micro SD and how to boot the system. Although I tried at least 4 times, writing the SD card, I only can see u-boot booting, then I see a message that the Kernel will be loaded, then I see two penguins in the left corner of the screen, and there it ends. The blue and occasionally the green leds light up, but no kernel messages, no console, no SSH access, nothing.

I'm honestly out of clues here, not only I lost my entire config which is, believe me, utterly, even astronomically frustrating . I'm not even capable of loading Arch on my cubietruck to start with a fresh setup.

Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated, I have no clue at all. Thank you.

Michael

[Michaelkmd]

Other users seem to have same problem. In one case, this apparently was due to a short-circuited battery-ethernetcasing. However, I can not see any contact between these two devices (see viewtopic.php?f=60&t=9275&p=48738&hilit=cubietruck#p48738).

Is the problem I'm experiencing because of a depleted RTC battery?
Why isn't Arch displaying any information (with exception of the two 'sarcastic' penguins)?

Michael

[Michaelkmd]

I went with Armbian, which boots just fine with the same SD card, and seems solid with low memory usage and very recent mainline kernels, etc. http://www.armbian.com/

Too bad, I really wanted to try Arch! but it was just impossible to find out why it wouldn't boot, and apparently I'm not the only one.

And now restoring my trashed config in order to access all the data again...

Regards,
Michael