Asus Tinker Board | Fresh image fails to boot

[rpecb]

Can't start fresh installation of dietpi on TB. I tried full format of sdcard (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<sd card>) it didn't help. Other systems (TinkerOS, Armbian) start up successfully.
Image checksums match.

Required Information

• DietPi version | 6.25
• SBC device | Asus TinkerBoard (non-S)
• SDcard used | SanDisk Ultra microSDHC 32GB 10 Class UHS-I [SDSQUNS-032G-GN3MN]

Steps to reproduce

1. Flash image to sd card with balena etcher (on Mac OS Catalina)
2. Power on device

Expected behaviour

• Success boot

Actual behaviour

• No any output on HDMI, just blinking leds, after a while they stop blinking

[MichaIng]

@rpecb
Many thanks for your report.

Are you able to SSH into the machine?

[rpecb]

@rpecb
Many thanks for your report.

Are you able to SSH into the machine?

no, device does not appear on the network.
behaviour looks like TB tries to start a couple of times, then it turns off

[MichaIng]

Strange, since in other cases it boots fine 🤔.

There was another similar case, although on older image (Stretch-based): #2533

The new Buster-based image is some months old and reported ATB installs raised meanwhile, which I take as a general prove of function: #2977 (comment)

Did you try another flash method then Ether? I remember another case where this had some issue lately...
E.g. dd if=/path/to/DietPi_v6.25_ASUSTB-ARMv7-Buster.img of=/dev/<sd card>

[MichaIng]

I mark this issue as closed, since it has been a while. A new image will be created the next days.