Is my Orange Pi Faulty?
Hi All,
Just thought I'd ask here before going to the hassle of returning a new Orange Pi 4 Pro.
I've been trying to get Linux running for 2 days using images from orangepi.org . I've tried the Ubuntu Server, the Ubuntu Desktop, backup Ubuntu Desktop and Debian Bookworm images, and pretty much all have thrown similar errors.
Usually Kernel panic errors, but can generally just freeze anywhere while trying to boot up, but maybe every 20th time, it will manage to boot to cli. So I did manage to get Ubuntu server running. I just set up docker with an SMB container and a USB disk connected. I left it running for a day but when I rebooted, it went back to not working, most of the time freezing while creating the zram drive.
Eventually wiped it and started afresh but continued to crash on first boot around the same time while booting.
I've tried multiple SD cards, created boot-able SD cards on Mac using Etcher, on Windows using Rufus. Tried 5 or 6 power supplies(18w or higher) and cables, always freezes at some stage during booting.
Can anyone confirm those images have worked recently? I've got a few SBC running already and never had any trouble like this.