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Thanks for this info, just wanted to share that the image for the "Linux v6.1 vendor IOT image for the 5 "Max" model" you linked to also worked for me on my Orange Pi 5 Ultra with no modifications needed. I haven't tested wifi or any use cases besides some simmple stuff over ssh so far, I did get a warning on first boot that it's a developer version of Armbian and shouldn't be used for production, but I suppose that's the case for all "community" builds? I also found this gist with steps to build Armbian from scratch for the 5 Ultra, but I haven't tried this yet. In case anyone else is looking for related info this PR also is also relevant: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8252 I still regret not buying a better supported board like the 5 Max board instead but hopefully better support will come for the 5 Ultra with time.

Upon reading the content of RPi5 about 6.12 from this and this , I was under the impression that it's okay to upgrade the Armbian 24.11 based NextCloudPi to a 6.12 kernel. Well, I was wrong and the RPi5 current stuck in the RPi Logo on a black page. Net address seems to be 0.0.0.0. I could really use some advice on how to restore this, perhaps some `chroot` method from another Linux machine to get the right kernel package and intramfs. Here are the steps that got me to the current situation. Maybe a hint on how to restore? 1. Mark `raspi-firmware`, like what was recommended in 1st post. sudo apt-mark hold raspi-firmware [sudo] password for pi: raspi-firmware set on hold. 2. Remove the old bsp for RPi5b specific package? pi@nextcloudpi:~$ sudo dpkg --remove --force-all libraspberrypi0 armbian-bsp-cli-rpi5b-current dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove libraspberrypi0 which isn't installed (Reading database ... 50983 files and directories currently installed.) Removing armbian-bsp-cli-rpi5b-current (24.11.1) ... Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi5b-current' for '1-PC980a-V32ae-H032a-B6e44-R7697': 'postrm' starting. Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi5b-current' for '1-PC980a-V32ae-H032a-B6e44-R7697': 'postrm' finishing. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142+deb12u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.63-current-bcm2712 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156b-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156a-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153c-1.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153b-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-4.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-3.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 3. Install the newer RPI4b bsp package, which guessing from the 2nd post, including everything from 3b to 5b. pi@nextcloudpi:~$ sudo apt install armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,515 kB of archives. After this operation, 5,411 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/armbian bookworm/main arm64 armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current arm64 25.8.1 [1,515 kB] Fetched 1,515 kB in 2s (1,008 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current. (Reading database ... 50867 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current_25.8.1_arm64.deb ... Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current' for '1-PCee86-Ved8e-H468e-B1e5d-Rf36a': 'preinst' starting. Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current' for '1-PCee86-Ved8e-H468e-B1e5d-Rf36a': 'preinst' finishing. Unpacking armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current (25.8.1) ... Setting up armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current (25.8.1) ... Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current' for '1-PCee86-Ved8e-H468e-B1e5d-Rf36a': 'postinst' starting. Armbian 'armbian-bsp-cli-rpi4b-current' for '1-PCee86-Ved8e-H468e-B1e5d-Rf36a': 'postinst' finishing. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142+deb12u3) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.6.63-current-bcm2712 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156b-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8156a-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153c-1.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153b-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-4.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-3.fw for built-in driver r8152 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8153a-2.fw for built-in driver r8152 4. I notice the initrd was still generated for the old kernel image, which is understandable based what is currently installed pi@nextcloudpi:~$ uname -a Linux nextcloudpi 6.6.63-current-bcm2712 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 27 10:28:46 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux pi@nextcloudpi:~$ dpkg -l | grep linux-image ii linux-image-current-bcm2712 24.11.1 arm64 Armbian Linux current kernel image 6.6.63-current-bcm2712 5. Therefore, I went ahead to install the new 6.12 kernel package pi@nextcloudpi:~$ sudo apt install linux-image-current-bcm2711 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-current-bcm2711 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 34.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 212 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/armbian bookworm/main arm64 linux-image-current-bcm2711 arm64 25.8.1 [34.5 MB] Fetched 34.5 MB in 5s (7,198 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-current-bcm2711. (Reading database ... 51028 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-current-bcm2711_25.8.1_arm64.deb ... Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2711' for '6.12.44-current-bcm2711': 'preinst' starting. Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2711' for '6.12.44-current-bcm2711': 'preinst' finishing. Unpacking linux-image-current-bcm2711 (25.8.1) ... Setting up linux-image-current-bcm2711 (25.8.1) ... Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2711' for '6.12.44-current-bcm2711': 'postinst' starting. update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.12.44-current-bcm2711 Armbian: update last-installed kernel symlink to 'Image'... '/boot/Image' -> 'vmlinuz-6.12.44-current-bcm2711' Armbian: Debian compat: linux-update-symlinks install 6.12.44-current-bcm2711 boot/vmlinuz-6.12.44-current-bcm2711 I: /vmlinuz is now a symlink to boot/vmlinuz-6.12.44-current-bcm2711 I: /initrd.img is now a symlink to boot/initrd.img-6.12.44-current-bcm2711 Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2711' for '6.12.44-current-bcm2711': 'postinst' finishing. 6. Everything looked right to me as there are no errors like before got reported during update-initramfs: pi@nextcloudpi:~$ sudo apt remove linux-image-current-bcm2712 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-image-current-bcm2712 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 155 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 54440 files and directories currently installed.) Removing linux-image-current-bcm2712 (24.11.1) ... Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2712' for '6.6.63-current-bcm2712': 'prerm' starting. Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2712' for '6.6.63-current-bcm2712': 'prerm' finishing. Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2712' for '6.6.63-current-bcm2712': 'postrm' starting. update-initramfs: Deleting /boot/initrd.img-6.6.63-current-bcm2712 Armbian 'linux-image-current-bcm2712' for '6.6.63-current-bcm2712': 'postrm' finishing. 7. As a final check, I ran the upgrade script again pi@nextcloudpi:~$ sudo armbian-upgrade Hit:1 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Hit:3 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian bookworm-backports InRelease Hit:4 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease Hit:5 https://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/armbian bookworm InRelease Hit:6 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease Hit:7 https://packages.sury.org/php bookworm InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 8. That's it. After rebooting, I was greeted with a RPi logo on a black page, with some messaging scrolling (trying to attach a photo but failed). It never got to the point to boot the kernel image or systemd booting sequence.

Thank you, it looks like my Nvme was bad. It works now!

I switch to vendor kernel 6.1.115 - its work

Hi All Well I am getting nowhere fast. When plugging the board into a Rpi Zero 2w , i2cdetect -l shows i2c-1 and i2c-2 i2cdetect -y 1 shows 00x48 i2cdetect -y 2 shows oox49 (my second board) and a few others like 3a,50,59 Re-wrote the image on the Opi Zero 2w to Debian as I was getting tired of the booting problems with ArmBian. Followed the manual on ALL the instructions. i2cdetect -l shows i2c-0 i2c-1 ,i2c-2 and i2c-3 i2cdetect -y 0 does not show any adapters connected i2cdetect -y 1 shows UU on 36 i2cdetect -y 2 shows 30 and 50 i2cdetect -y 3 does not show any adapters VERY SLOWLY. Orangepi-config /system/Hardware has been tried with just i2c-0 ticked or all three ticked. Tried ticking phi2c-0 to 3 but that made no difference, still no 00x48 visible anywhere. I have tried about 6 different OS Images, all to no avail. Even tried the Rpi image shown on the Opi site. So, I have to conclude (unless someone corrects me) that it is the board that is the problem or some firmware on the board. Not sure if I should learn how to upgrade the firmware. Regards

@Igor When I first start it up, I get an error! Even if I install the packages manually, the GNOMRlE interface does not switch to Portuguese! That's strange!

I recently had to modify a device tree file for a different reason. I showed what I did (and how I did it) here: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/52118-hdmi-audio-and-analog-audio-do-not-work-on-opi5plus/?do=findComment&comment=224923 To summarize, I used the device-tree-compiler package (command line: dtc) to convert the device tree binary (.dtb) file to a device tree source (.dts) file. Then I edited the .dts file, then converted it back. The process won't show you all the variable names, but the resulting .dts is readable enough to likely see what and where you need to change... and even moreso if you have the original (pre-compiled) .dts file to compare it with. If you need to match variable names with specific numbers, they will likely be #defined in the #includes at the top of the original .dts file.

This will cause update-grub to add the following a devicetree line to all menu entries. This example is based on Debian Trixie's grub-efi. This example will expect dtb directories (or links) to be in the /boot directory, using the convention that I've seen Armbian use. Here is an example of a /boot directory listing for (pure) Debian Trixie with two kernels: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 336036 Aug 27 04:10 config-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 343394 Sep 6 12:48 config-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 20 16:17 dtb -> ../usr/lib/linux-image-6.16.3+deb13-arm64/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Sep 20 16:17 dtb-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -> ../usr/lib/linux-image-6.12.43+deb13-arm64/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 20 16:18 dtb-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 -> ../usr/lib/linux-image-6.16.3+deb13-arm64/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 20 15:13 efi drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 20 16:26 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 15 21:30 initrd.img -> initrd.img-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 -rw------- 1 root root 42521317 Sep 20 16:26 initrd.img-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw------- 1 root root 43760872 Sep 20 16:25 initrd.img-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 15 20:38 initrd.img.old -> initrd.img-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Aug 27 04:10 System.map-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 Sep 6 12:48 System.map-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Sep 15 21:30 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37449664 Aug 27 04:10 vmlinuz-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41507328 Sep 6 12:48 vmlinuz-6.16.3+deb13-arm64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Sep 15 20:38 vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-6.12.43+deb13-arm64 Note: The relative pathways of the dtb links above assume that the /boot directory is part of the main OS partition, not on its own boot partition. Otherwise you'd need to copy those directories to /boot/ as Armbian does. For The Current Partition's OS Entries (each devicetree will be specific to the respective kernel) 1. Open the file with a text/source editor (using sudo): /etc/grub.d/10_linux 2. Find every line that looks something like this (currently on my system, there is only one, and it's line 189) linux ${rel_dirname}/${basename} root=${linux_root_device_thisversion} ro ${args} 3. Just above it, add your own system's version of this line: devicetree ${rel_dirname}/dtb-${version}/[VENDOR SUB-DIRECTORY]/[SBC PRODUCT].dtb Specific Example: OrangePI-5-Plus devicetree ${rel_dirname}/dtb-${version}/rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb Specific Example from the resulting grub.cfg, of the current trixie-backport kernel, again on the OrangePI-5-Plus: devicetree /boot/dtb-6.16.3+deb13-arm64/rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb For Other Partitions' OS Entries, via os-prober (I'm unfamiliar with the variables in this so each devicetree will be the same generic path, regardless of kernel) 1. Open the file with a text/source editor (using sudo): /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober 2. Find every line that looks something like this (currently on my system, there are two, lines 277 and 297) linux ${LKERNEL} ${LPARAMS} 3. Just above it, add your own system's version of this line: devicetree /boot/dtb/[VENDOR SUB-DIRECTORY]/[SBC PRODUCT].dtb Specific Example: OrangePI-5-Plus devicetree /boot/dtb/rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb Then run update-grub, and take a look at the resulting /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Yes, current broke at some point. More up to date packages should be available via apt. In general the support for rk3588 in 6.12 (current as of today) is barely there but there won't be updates regarding that matter, bug fixes only due to its LTS nature. Better use vendor or edge.

Great, svvolf! This fix boot problem on OPI Zero v1 (Armbian v25.8.1, Linux 6.12.43-current-sunxi) 😁 Thank you!

T'is one reason to prefer boards that take 12V power. and yes, barrel-connectors, but I can't think of any recent boards that use 5V and barrel connectors. NanoPi-M4 vs NanoPC-T4, with a WD Blue SN500, the T4 was stable. the M4 was not. yes, the M4 used the official power supply.

As far as I know, the permissions of /var/log/postgresql after a reboot are recreated from those on /var/log.hdd/postgresql. So if you modify those as well (remove the sticky bit), the workaround should be permanent. Thanks for highlighting this problem, I've encountered the very same issue, but didn't realize it was caused by this somewhat peculiar directory permission. So I just applied your workaround (plus my extension) and hope it will fix this once and for all.

I think there are some userspace drivers needed as well. Armbian provides the kernel module only. Not exactly sure what's needed but I think the stuff is from here: https://github.com/airockchip/rknn-toolkit2/tree/master/rknpu2

I see. Well there is a similar topic, maybe this can give some clues: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/50228-i2s-audio-not-working-on-orange-pi-zero-2w-allwinner-h618-with-max98357a/

Hi goodfvh _YT_. I wanted to know if you are using Dupont wires?

If someone interested on this tv box: I've managed to download original firmware image (update.zip) from backup partition. Also I cleaned it from malware (at least I think so) and packed as modified update.zip. Files are located here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1etPmH8ZG4UtPHI3Vf1U9MUHl5_gK_s-E Further info available here (in Russian): https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=1016510&view=findpost&p=139209499

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Hello @Eks Ma, how are you? Unfortunately not. I gave up trying. The TV box is just sitting here at home.

It may or may not work to use a Tinkerboard image for your Chromebook. Same processor or manufacturer does not mean much, though, in terms of compatibility.

Also note that if you are on a community build or anything that points to the "beta" armbian apt repository, you will get a new linux kernel image pushed out to you each day, which would then trigger the need for a reboot (depending on settings) for that new kernel to be run.

unfortunately, your board has no maintainer in Armbian, it is only supported by the community

what version of OS are you guys running? are you possibly affected by the hardening of fancontrol in trixie?

After like a week of trying to make my tinkerboard rk3288 play videos I finally found the holy grail: https://users.armbian.com/jmcc/output/ Find the latest version and install that with all his dependencies, all the dependencies are in the debian archive: deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] https://github.armbian.com/configng stable main deb http://apt.armbian.com buster main buster-utils buster-desktop I managed to play 4k hevc dolby atmos 5.1 movie streaming from my jellyfin server at my parents house using kodi-gbm and it worked flawlessly! I couldn't do the same with mpv yet. I hope this helps ppl with this ancient (2017) sbc.

I also upgraded from bookworm to trixie and saw this warning. I can confirm that Igor's suggested workaround addresses it: wget https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key gpg --dearmor < armbian.key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null apt is now happy with the armbian repo.

I flashed same image to a SD card and tried to boot from it. Following is the result of `grep mmcblk1p2 /var/log/syslog` 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015489+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: ### [resize2fs] Trying to resize ext4 filesystem on /dev/mmcblk1p2: 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015493+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Running 'resize2fs /dev/mmcblk1p2' now... 2025-09-17T09:52:44.015508+00:00 rock-5-itx armbian-resize-filesystem[947]: Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk1p2 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021891+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): unmounting filesystem. 2025-09-17T09:52:44.021893+00:00 rock-5-itx kernel: EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. Quota mode: none. I will try booting from a different medium and running `fsck mmcblk1p2` too.