Banana Pi BPI-Forge1 - Image Issue - No Partition Table

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I’ve recently recieved a Banana Pi BPI-Forge1 with Rockchip RK3506J Banana Pi BPI-Forge1 with Rockchip RK3506J | BananaPi Docs

I’m attempting to follow the docs, but the IMG has no partition table. And doing a hexdump and strings and other things looks like there aren’t filesystems.

I’ve attempted to dd the image directly, I’ve attempted to use balenaEtcher (which warns me the IMG has no partition table).

The images I’ve attempted are the ArmSoM-Forge1 on ArmSoM - Google Drive

I attempted to do it as a full zip and attempted to decompress it and try different of the images in there.

I’ve also attempted to gain access to the serial port, but I don’t know if the hardware will show anything without an OS and I can’t get it to connect serially. That totally could be me though, I’ve never connected to a board like that over serial.

Any help is greatly appreciiated.