booting A13 olinuxino micro from Debian Stable/12.7 ("Bookworm") does not complete

[pvswie]

I have an old A13 olinuxino micro (was running fine for >10 years) that I am trying to update to something recent.
I downloaded boot-a13_olinuxino.bin.gz and debian-bookworm-armhf-yi7uth.bin.gz and loaded it on a micro SD.
I connected to the serial port and confirm serial port works appropriately when in the boot loader.
Then I let linux boot and I see a lot of logging.
The logging ends with a rotation of 3 jobs (it looks like these jobs never complete):

• (1 of 3) Job systemd-networkd.service/start running
• (2 of 3) Job dev-ttyS0.device/start running (49s / 1min 30s)
• (3 of 3) Job systemd-tmpfiles-setup…tart running (1min 17s / no limit)

Using the serial port I cannot influence all this (e.g. ENTER has no effect of additional newline, CTRL-Q/CTRL-S have no effect)

I tried another (new, much faster) micro SD card. Same issue. I do see a difference between the cards: With the new much faster card it seems like the olinuxino dies as part of a (1 of 3) while with the old card I eventually get lots of error messages and then the rotating jobs starts over. The first part of the logging shows:
[ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device ▒▒dev-ttyS0.device - /dev/ttyS0.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for seri…rvice - Serial Getty on ttyS0.
[FAILED] Failed to start systemd-jo…ush Journal to Persistent Storage.
See 'systemctl status systemd-journal-flush.service' for details.
[*** ] Job systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.serv…tart running (3min 36s / no limit)
[ 242.657002] INFO: task kworker/u2:0:9 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 242.672811] Not tainted 6.1.0-25-armmp #1 Debian 6.1.106-3
[ 242.687729] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 242.704511] task:kworker/u2:0 state:D stack:0 pid:9 ppid:2 flags:0x00000000
etc etc etc

Can anyone shed some light on what is happening here? Is there anything I can do about this? Any suggestions?

[pvswie]

I downloaded and installed an old olimex image. That works perfectly yet is somewhat outdated (10 years). Both my hardware and the serial console work just fine

[pvswie]

Forget my question. I apparently selected the wrong board.