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@Ducdanh Nguyen can you see your axp chip? never heard of bigfish. Is that a heat sink on your SOC? Not sure why it has no writing on it.

Hello everyone - I started having problems with installing to eMMC and I assume it is related to uboot. It used to work in the past on my devices but it doesn't anymore. The script runs successfully without any errors (besides not finding the ini file, which is irrelevant supposedly). But when trying to boot from eMMC (sd removed), I get a couple of errors (Card did not respond to voltage select), which indicates, that the eMMC can't be found. It tries booting from USB and ETH and ultimately fails. Is anybody else seeing this issue? I'm running a Vontar X3 (identical with HK1 and X96 max). By the way - the eMMC is fine. When I boot from the SD card, I can mount the eMMC ROOT and BOOT partition and they seem all correct.

This does not seem to work anymore. The flashing works but when trying to boot from eMMC, the device can't initialize the eMMC anymore ("Card did not react to voltage select"). Anybody else seeing this problem?

Hello crew, I have similar issues with installing to eMMC. In the past I was able to flash to eMMC and boot from there. I bought a second device (I'm running 2 Vontar X3, which are identical with HK1 and H96 Max, running 905x3) and flashing the newer versions of Armbian does not work anymore. I can run it from the SD card, I can even run the install script, but it will only boot, when the SD card is still in. When I try booting from the eMMC, it does not work. In the past it worked but something seems to have changed over time. I'm going the clean route and flash the original android firmware before trying to flash Armbian, to have a clean environment. I assume it's a change in U-Boot and the eMMC not being initialized correctly. When trying to boot, I get a bunch of "Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110" error messages. Then it tries booting over USB or ETH, which all fails. Does anybody know, how I could make it boot from eMMC again? Who is responsible for uboot? Thanks in advance!

Specifically, your board is "Community Maintained" That means it is not supported by Armbian resources (beyond the automated infrastructure to make builds and host them for the community) https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/#community-maintained

@dale you need a display overlay that is compatible with tm16xx. OpenVFD overlays are NOT supported. You can read README.md and dt-bindings documentation at https://github.com/jefflessard/tm16xx-display But note that there has been many changes recently to the code base since the driver is currently in review process to be upstreamed into mainline kernel (targeting v6.18). So double check which bindings version format has been integrated into Armbian rockchip64. The GitHub repo also contains a vfd-convert utility to automatically convert OpenVFD configuration files to expected tm16xx DTSO. But : 1. It requires OpenVFD conf file, not dtso. 2. You may need to go through file history to get the version matching of what has been integrated into Armbian rockchip64.

If you can solve the problem, please share it with the community.

When I got my ROCK3A around 2024-12-01 I thought it was a good idea to use a newest Linux userspace so I started with Armbian Ubuntu minimal image. Just getting to know the board HW and only SD-card and serial console and RJ45 that was fine, but soon the problems started. I managed to install NetworkManager and disable networkd, so I could copy a rather complex set of NM files from my other SBC, NanoPi-R6C that is using bridges VLANs and libvirt KVM. Same as I did earlier copy that same *.nmconnection files from RaspberryPi4 (PiOS bullseye/bookworm) . And just changing a cloned-mac address entry essentially in 1 .nmconnection file initially so my router assigns the correct IP address (just initial setting), changed that later. Long story short, it turns out that you need netplan.io and that generates .nmconnection files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/, at least that was my conclusion after doing tricks with apt, maybe it is different, I did not want to waste time on it anymore. Same .nmconnection files (same content) are somewhere in /var or so, I forgot where and those seem to be generated from netplan yaml files. I once constructed yaml files to get 64-bit Ubuntu server image running on RPi4 when RPL only had 32-bit ARMv6 raspbian, but already then I thought never again that netplan stuff. I already removed all snapd stuff myself. So after wasting way too much time I just created a clone image on an SD-card from a Btrfs snapshot of my running NanoPi-R6C, copied some U-Boot and kernel and DTB files then done. Could start even VMs on dedicated VLANs etc. That by the way is also an issue with Ubuntu, they keep certain files needed for running KVM different from Bookworm, so VMs did not start, I needed to look at Ubuntu fora to figure out what the issue was. I forgot what as I wiped it all. So my opinion is more or less that Canonical has some vendor lock-ins here and there and/or 'cookies' to keep you stay with them (Ubuntu). Not internet-browser cookies, but goodies, like adding BSD code to Linux (ZFS). As the world of SBCs is almost exclusively about pre-installed images with most people not able to boot an iso CD-ROM and install Linux themselves, it is easy getting into peoples homes. For me, netplan is like hidden malware as I am unable to just install NetworkManager without also getting netplan and then needing to know/learn 3 network config scripting things. Opensuse Tumbleweed also has its own network managing tool (wicked), but at least that can be ignored if you want NetworkManager (dedicated switch in YaST). Same for Debian although manual apt packages and services actions. And then there is nmtui tool that works via serial console, so for me a key feature to configure networking initially in a good interactive way. It is much easier than reading yaml docs or nmcli command options docs. So lesson learned is that I avoid Armbian Ubuntu, also Armbian Bookworm minimal. Only if downloadable Armbian Bookworm images where NM is default I would maybe use, else just clone 1 of my own installations. For own image generation with Armbian build, there is option to use NM, so I noted that somewhere. Pity is that recommended/supported build host environment is Ubuntu. I did most builds on Armbian Bookworm lately, works fine. But last time I started it on Trixie it failed. Will try again sometime soon.

To replace an image on the eMMC, the MASKROM mode is not necessary. It is only required when the firmware is so damaged that it no longer works, but the signature is still intact and the MASKROM code still executes it. To replace an image, it is sufficient to boot from a rootfs that is not on the eMMC and replace it from there. And the good thing about it is that no device-specific hacks are necessary, just a properly configured bootflow. Furthermore, it is also self-contained, as no external devices with special software or other dependencies are necessary. It can also be automated in such a way that it runs unattended and the user only has to start the process initially.

Customizing image and customizing kernel are different tasks. For latter use the code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } kernel-config command and then copy over the created config file from output to userpatches. The framework will look for custom kernel configuration files and uses them if they're detected. More details here: https://zuckerbude.org/armbian-using-kernel-config/

That seems to have gone away. ? SNILMERG... Now using very small but 1920x1080 screen, xfce terminal text is about 7 microns tall, way too small for my ancient eyes, Simplified keyboard. ctrl&shift&+ magnify's text but when big enough to read, bottom of xfce4 terminal is offscreen below bottom of screen, so cannot see command line. Is there a keycode combo that expands text independently from terminal window size? Thank you.

Armbian kernel and BSP Debian/Ubuntu userland

You are still using an old Linux. You need Linux 6.13 or newer. You need to build your own Armbian OS. Also, don't forget the cma=256M kernel argument

I was just wondering if there would be an issue because of different U-Boot and kernel combination in the 2 tests, but that does not seem to be the case. I think there might be some issue with the controller in the eMMC module that is starting to reveal when wear-level is or is getting higher. What fsck commands are done? So how is it fixed and is it fixed or is only metadata corrected and might there be corrupted data-blocks still without knowing. I don't use Ext4, I use Btrfs for rootfs and all other storage devices. In doubt, I use DUP profile for meta data, that is more for HDDs. As said Btrfs allows adhoc or regular scrubs, you will be able to detect where corrupt blocks are if that is the issue. It also might be that there is an issue in the 6.6 kernel that reveals itself when higher write delays or so, maybe update the OS. Maybe mmc-utils can show some issue (I have no experience with it).

reopening after moving to "Software / Applications / Userspace"

You realized the wrong thing: the topic is actual but this is not a forum where to discuss about Android or stock firmwares

Anyone an idea?

Yup, I opened a bug report about this on his github, I have yet to receive an answer. I'm having trouble figuring out if it's a hardware issue or a software issue, since I don't have a second bug to test at the same time. When I try the Makerbase OS on this same board, I don't have connectivity either, but at least, the link led turns on and off with the cable connect/disconnect.

Did you try to build the image with compile.sh and this following setting? INCLUDE_HOME_DIR=yes See https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Switches/#advanced

Yeah, also on my laptop (Arch with upstream 6.16 kernel) this problem does not happen, so it shouldn't be because of specific patches to the rtw88 kernel in the RPi kernel repo. It only happens when I use the kernel built with Armbian build system. I am completely clueless about what could be causing this 🤷‍♂️

Sorry that was resolved 2 days ago, but I don't see and never seen this long list. Only 3 options vendor 6.1, 6.12 and edge (6.16), This morning I also seen the u-boot wasn't the good one. I downloaded for rock5-itx, but had linux-u-boot-cyber-aib-rk3588-edge instead of linux-u-boot-rock-5-itx-edge, changed it, rebooted (on 6.16) worked, tried again 6.12, still no display. I needed to arch-chroot on the armbian to take a screenshot (but I've the same dispay on armbian itself): I seen 6.16.4 is now available and work, after /boot/config-6.16.4-edge-rockchip64, gcc 13.3.0 is now again used instead of old 11.x :). Debian Trixie has GCC 14.2.0 CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 13.3.0-6ubuntu2~24.04) 13.3.0" And after changelog on kernel.org, patch for AV1 acceleration had been applied on this version: https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.16.4 Fixes: 003afda97c65 ("media: verisilicon: Enable AV1 decoder on rk3588") Sorry I maybe mix too much subjects in the same post, but: I also seen a minimal IoT version of Trixie for Rock5-itx. Can I made safely a debian os upgrade from apt? Or is it better to wait release for desktop version ? Another point. On armbian, only LLVMpipe is used, I compiled last mesa git on arch, will try to do this for debian too. and some application that need to use EGL+dri (wings3D, blender, obs) report broken DRI2 access. I'm not sure if it's due to some kernel patchs (I reuse the armbian 6.16 kernel on arch), or to the current state of mesa-git. They all works with llvmpipe. Othere applications like PPSSPPSDL work fine without it. Ex, with wings3d + forced zink: MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink GALLIUM_DRIVER=zink wings3d WARNING: Some incorrect rendering might occur because the selected Vulkan device (Mali-G610) doesn't support base Zink requirements: feats.features.fillModeNonSolid feats.features.shaderClipDistance libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen WARNING: Some incorrect rendering might occur because the selected Vulkan device (Mali-G610) doesn't support base Zink requirements: feats.features.fillModeNonSolid feats.features.shaderClipDistance

You can either experiment with the CLEAN_LEVEL switch or use kernel-patch or uboot-patch (depending on what you want to modify) to create proper patch files from the diff.

Did you download stretch already, before I remove it to put up Bionic?

Hello, everyone. I'm using Armbian_25.5.2_Orangepizero3_bookworm_current_6.12.30-homeassistant_minimal on 4GB OpiZero3. When booting from sd, the bluetooth controller is initialized correctly. I made a boot from usb-ssd via armbian-config: everything works fine, but the bluetooth controller is not initialized. /sys/class/bluetooth is empty. Switch back to sd - it works again. Boot from ssd - no. I compared whether it transferred the distribution correctly from sd to ssd - all files are the same. What could be the problem?

This looks normal. Most of those boards have bootloaders at locations prior to boot partition. Boot loop. This can be many things - i would guess kernel crash and watchdog issue restart. Why that happens? Hard to tell. This way? sudo screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 It should prompt out something.