When I boot this with my brand new m64, the red LED comes on for 11 seconds, goes off for 1 sec, and then the process keeps repeating. HDMI display shows the screen change to a black background with some horizontal rain like white lines for a split second before it goes dark and the output signal goes off. I tried 2 SD cards, and tried burning via both OSX and Windows but have no luck. Does this really work?
I checked the MD5, it is all good. I use a genuine Apple iPad charger as well as a third party charger with no luck. I also tried booting without any USB and HDMI and network to reduce power consumption but it is still the same. 11 seconds red LED, followed by a blip, then another 11 seconds red LED, another blip, …
I tried burning the full Raspbian image and that boots up fine though I see there is no WiFi support, eth0 has a 169.x.x.x address and I haven’t bothered further because I need WiFi support.
I’m about to try Avafinger’s stuff but do you guys Bpi have a simple Linux image I can use?
I finally managed to have Raspbian Lite work (maybe I did not correctly burned my SD card the first time). However, the image don’t work well:
WiFI is not working
GbE is not working. You need to change to 100Mb Full duplex manually to have network working correctly. As ethtool is not present, I forced the network port on switch side to be 100Mb and the banana pi adapted itself. However, I just saw that mii-tool might be present, so you could change to 100Mb by using mii-tool (https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Setting_the_speed_and_duplex)
After a 2nd attempt, Avafinger image is working for me. I changed the power supply to use the DC input port instead of USB OTG and I think this made the difference.
GbE is working. Wireless seems to work (at least interface wlan0 is present). EMMC is working. So it’s all good for me.
Kernel is 3.10.102, far from the mainline, but apparently some improvement will be performed in 4.11 that will soon be released.
