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I'd like to try Joshua Riek's image, but not sure how. @Hqnicolas, your link in previous post is 404 now. I tried to boot kernel linux-image-vendor-rk35xx with rk3566-h96-tvbox.dtb but got instant kernel panic.

Is RK3399 more expansive? I was missled by my purchase price. And on paper, RK3399's Mali T860 is much weaker than RK3566's Mali G52.

Nothing rare in your review. You are comparing a high price rk3399 with a low one rk3566. The last makes a good job because is well supported and can move a Desktop for little money. With LXQT works wonderfull.

We are cleaning those builds as they have very little value. But you were lucky: https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/tag/24.11.0-trunk.351

Now I'm very disapointed with this box. Comparing to my Firefly-rk3399, it has 2x memory, newer CPU/GPU, but performance is worse. glmark2-es2-wayland score: RK3399 1100, RK3566 500 ffmpeg -hwaccel drm -benchmark on same AVC/H264 video, RK3399 40X, RK3566 10X And GUI smothiness is much worse than RK3399. I can feel the difference, and it is very obvious. Kernel version are both 6.12 mainline.

OK, as soon as my new 2 32GB cards arrive, I will check that. Or even manually install.

@laurentppol It might be that the links have not been correct in /boot cd boot sudo ln -sf uInitrd-6.1.75-rt23 uInitrd sudo ln -sf vmlinuz-6.1.75-rt23 Image And of course the dtb from the 6.1.75 kernel must be used. Perhaps downgrading the kernel also helps, in case you don't use real-time applications that might be the better option: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/47090-radxa-rock5c-pentahat-and-emmc/#findComment-206251

@DantesWhen I still had the original 2017 U-boot on the eMMC (from the OpenWRT that came pre-installed), inserting an SD-card with some recent Armbian image booted always from the SD-card. So in serial/debug console I had full control of the eMMC (and also an NVME in the M.2 slot). So that is also how I recently wrote a new/latest 2024 U-boot from the current-branch Armbian to the eMMC with dd. But that 2024 U-boot is more flexible and I needed quite some time to and figure out what was what (after stop autoboot prompt): 1 - SD-card with a known good simple basic Armbian Bookworm 2 - eMMC where the custom kernel did not work 3 - NVME with an EFI boot partition with grub.efi and some variant of openSUSE and some Debian flavor After reading U-boot command docs like 'bootflow', I somehow booted from NMVE. Fine but I want also operation with no NVME in the M.2 slot inserted. So eMMC and SD-card can be selected in U-boot but was a bit guessing as I had to rely on some addresses, so 3rd try or so I started the good simple basic Armbian Bookworm from SD-card and from there I could put a working kernel Image/uInitrd/DTB on the eMMC again. But what will happen if the somehow the U-boot on eMMC is corrupt? That has not happened, but when it would, will it then always somehow re-init and try SD-card? That is my point, that is why I thought I should also get to know USB loading, like I know from Android smartphones with fastboot tool. But you state: "Boot from sdcard with maskrom", that I had not thought of. Does that skip eMMC always? And scp? You mean the ethernet port(s) is/are up and running then? Or something over serial cable downloading what is known from simple old processor boards?

@royk Didn't work for me. Used apt install "*.deb" then reboot and system hung after bootlogo.

OK, You suggest FTDI, will buy one. Now trying to "apt upgrade" on 28.8.1 with 6.1.75(43) kernel. Will describe what I did and results in other (mPCIe OrangePi5) thread.

This is not a viable option.

Hello Everyone, Unfortunately my helios64 is not glowing any power LED. As soon as I connect the power supply it only shows a blinking orange LED light, that is basically for the battery status. My power supply is perfectly fine and even I have tried using with the ATX power supply same result. Does anyone face this issue and please help me to get my board working again. Thanks!

- Using the panthor driver might help, the 6.1.75 kernel with the panthor overlay enabled. - If Xorg is the trouble maker, try wayland with Sunshine server and moonlight-qt as client. - Disable hw acceleration in de xorg config file, although here it never crashed for months

I have this issue with the Le Potato from time to time. I use a service and script to run `ethtool -r eth0`.

Totally understand your reply. My experience with Armbian has been very positive, especially WITHOUT hardware accel. In HW accelerated JR I regularly see segmentation faults in Xorg, which make me think whacky chinese mali code is the cause though I'm not sure. Shouldn't segmentation faults be a thing of the past anyway? It should not even be possible except for broken hardware... Bas

We cannot support 3rd party OS. State your questions here: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues Armbian Though it is not uncrashable. Because no distro could every be, especially for this soc. Basically all distros available using the same vendor bsp, some are even built around Armbians modified sources (just like Joshuas images).

Take a look at universal projects that are made far better, and are universal by design. https://forum.armbian.com/forum/40-reviews-tutorials-hardware-hacks/ (pinned topics)

They are not needed. We use flash media friendly and more advanced ZSWAP solution by default. https://www.google.com/search?q=zswap If you don't want to have this, you can of course disable this feature in /etc/defaults/ (will be soon added to armbian-config) and add swap file. But that is not recommended.

@dantes "You might need sudo" generally means "if you regularly use a serial console or maskrom connection you will want to configure user permissions for /dev/ttyusbX" (i.e. adding the user to the "dialout" group). Back when modems were still frequently used adding a user to dialout might have been a serious problem. I think nowadays using sudo for pretty much anything is the greater risk.

Hello OPI5 users. Running Joshua Riek's Ubuntu distro, I keep getting stability issues. Perhaps because I keep using Xorg. Perhaps because hardware acceleration is buggy. In the past I used super stable Armbian OPI5 distro's without hardware acceleration. Infact I still use Armbian on another RK3588 box, I don't think it has EVER crashed, running docker, Mosquito, HomeAssistant, and a buch of other things. Now that my Orange Pi 5 gets a slightly more serious use as webserver, I really like to get rid of the unpredictable Xorg crashes, and gladly would sacrifice HW acceleration for stability. My situation is this: Using JR Ubuntu Because I want to use headless RealVNC (runs only under Xorg) for several devices I switched off Wayland Using a slightly hacked RealVNC server originating from Raspberry Pi Want to use OPI5 as a NodeJS + Nginx webserver serving Node apps now Any suggestions for a super stable uncrashable distro for the Opi5, for server use but with gui? I kind of hate to set everything up again, especially with the internal M.2 sata quirks, but I gotta have stability now. Hopefully I can ask a second question: is there an easy way to totally turn off HW acceleration in JR Ubuntu? Maybe I should try that first... Kind regards, Bas

AFAIR armbian creates swap in RAM

Hello everyone I wanted to build Armbian on the AIO-3588Q board. But I did not see that there was a configuration of this board. There was a configuration of the ITX-3588j board and other manufacturers on the same rk3588 platform and tried to build Armbian. In the assembled images in GPT format, only rootfs was stored (it combines rootfs and kernel (boot.img) according to the rockchip documentation). After I built it, I installed it in the rootds partition, it was installed without any errors. But the system does not start. You turn on the power, the fan starts spinning very fast, spins for 5 seconds, the lower LED lights up, and then the fan stops, the light goes out, a second passes and the fan starts spinning again. I tried to get logs through the debug port, nothing was output except Chinese characters mixed with question marks (binary data) I tried to create a custom board profile for building Armbian, but I constantly got errors during the build. Dragged all dts and makefile from source firefly. Also could not understand what is needed to modify uboot so that uboot can run from gpt kernel located in rootfs. Please tell me how to: 1) Get logs from uboot and connect to its command line? 2) How can I build Armbian for AIO-3588Q together with Uboot? Or build Uboot separately, but what is needed for correct parsing of GPT from rootfs? Maybe someone had experience of building for this board

Thank you for your feedback, I think you are right in that my problem related to an issue with 24.8.4. I could not boot from NVME when I used kernel 6.1.75 with 24.8.4 (ie the version of images published here https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5c/) I built a new image using 6.1.75 and 24.11.0 (subsequently upgraded to 24.11.1), this now boots fine from the NVME drive.

Hello, I noticed that the system has created a swap partition by default. So, Where does the system default to creating swap exchange partitions??