Cubieboard 2 installation instructions not working

[neoncortex]

Hi,

the installation instructions on http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7 ... bieboard-2 don't seem to work.
After the cubieboard 2 is powered up only the blue LED blinks.

I tried an older instruction some time ago and in the old instructions there where 2 files to dd on sdcard.

That worked!

The actual installation instructions only require to dd one file to sdcard. That doesn't seem to work

Any ideas?

[WarheadsSE]

Yes, it only worked with earlier images.Check out this page in this forum. There is a new version of uboot which bricks the boot process because of missing uEnv.txt. You can edit this file on the sd manually but I couldn't get it to work with a usual one. Looks like noone here uses cb2. Good luck
P.S if it actually worked like it did before it would still be badly optimized

[WarheadsSE]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tangente', 'P').S if it actually worked like it did before it would still be badly optimized

[Tangente]

Don't get me wrong here.
I'm very happy for all the few open source developers at sunxi or alarm but it's much work I think.
If I had more time I would also use it for linux stuff and donating is no option for me as I am a pupil.

[Tangente]

Maybe we can solve the problem if we use the standart sunxi boot/root partitioning scheme for the sd card and after that symlink it. We may check this out.

[kmihelich]

The instructions work just fine.

[Tangente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kmihelich', 'T')he instructions work just fine.

[kmihelich]

No, I just wrote the instructions based on guessing what should work.

Of course it's been tested.

[neoncortex]

If the instructions at http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7 ... bieboard-2 are working than I'm doing something wrong.

I follow the instruction via copy pasta. The only thing i change is that my SDCARD is at /dev/mmcblk0 and not at /dev/sdX. And the first partition is /dev/mmcblk0p1 and not /dev/sdX1.

Did i miss something?

[tomgradwell]

I had a similar problem. The down load I first used worked fine out of the box giving me a console
on the HDMI monitor. The most recent version still runs up (Though it does not light the status led)
blue led flashes and I can ssh to the board. considering this is a system for the cubieboard 2 it seems
this is now broken compared to what it was.