However when I press alt+ctrl+f1+del the system sends kill signal an restarts (and that's when some messages appear instead of just a black screen), which I think means the kernel is successfully loaded. So there must be a problem with my SD card and rootfs.
I partitioned my 8GB SD into two partitions, one 4GB ext4 and the rest as a FAT partition. The ext4 partition is labeled "linuxroot" and flagged as boot. I checked file permissions and they were correct.
I don't know what else to do. Really need to run Linux on this device
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