[tekkdrone]

I've been using a 2gb micro in an adapter, and a helmi 6.1 ROM for testing/development (HaRET's pretty flexible), I also tested those 5 files to the point of booting Android to the home screen, then uploaded them after copying them from my SD card.

I will download the set to my extra SD card to be sure they didn't get corrupted during upload, can you please check these possibilities?

Do you have all of the files placed in the root of your SD card? they cannot be in a folder or in separate folders. Alternatively, if the zImage file is named zimage (no capital I) fix the startup.txt to reflect that, or rename the zimage though I don't think it matters, same for the initrd.

Another possibility: if you transferred using a card reader, you need to click the tray icon and "safely remove <card>" to ensure everything is written out to the card before it's pulled.