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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.

Thanks for your comments, I am new to ARM installation, and never convert a Chromebook to Linux NoteBook, I am retired and doing that to my grand-kids…, I am more familiar with systems using Intel, AMD processor and a standard BIOS, my computer tower is a ‘Debian-Facile’, also called ‘DFlinux’. 1) To answer ‘Laibsch’, I planed to use Armbian Thinkerboard/s simply because it was the same RK3228 processor, and they are both mfg by Asus, and according to ‘NicoD’ Youtube video, Armbian-config let me easily install French version of Debian. To answer ‘The Tall Man’ 2) Archlinux is not my 1st choice, other class equipments, with school softwares are in Debian based distributions, and Archlinux has some differences in instructions, this is why I targeted a Debian based distribution to avoid futur problem 3) Currently for testing, I remove the ‘Write protection’ screw on the board, and in ‘Developer mode’, using and external USB, with CTL+U at start, is running Lubuntu 18.04, from Zutchi group image, but this version of Linux is old, and I failed to upgrade since Ubuntu no longer have 32 bits distribution. 4) I will try your suggestion using Armhf distribution from Debian (trixie) using EFI booter, Let me few days, I have other thinks to do, and I don’t want ‘Brick’ the machine, I will read carufelly and try to install on eMMC of the C100P to avoid, for the kids using external device with CTL+U. Thanks again for your time and your usefull comments

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?

I have an OrangePI 5 Plus, which is based on the rk3588 (arm64) SoC. I've installed Debian Trixie directly from their .iso installer (using an EFI booter) and it works - although I had to upgrade the kernel to the latest backported version to get GPU and audio. But the Armbian edge kernel (Rockchip64 in my case) works even better when install that package onto the pure Debian. I looked up that Chromebook and see it's based on the rk3288C, which is apparently a 32-bit arm (armhf)? If that's the case, you can download the Debian .iso installer here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/armhf/iso-dvd/ Then if Armbian has an edge kernel for the rk3288, try it out to improve upon what Debian provides. I did find this page on Debian's site, but it doesn't look like it would be much help.: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C100P There is a Debian page for a similar computer that may be more helpful if you can adapt it to yours? https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/C101PA Note that the above two links were probably created long before Trixie. P.S. Even better is a full linux tutorial for your specific computer. In a search engine, I looked up: installing linux on ASUS ChromeBook C100P ...and this was a result: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/asus-chromebook-flip-c100p

Why would you think that?

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.

Checked here?https://serverfault.com/questions/1042988/automatic-reboot-at-specific-time-if-automatic-upgrade-requires-reboot

ubuntu22 desktop Why does the system restart trigger at 3:30 every day？？ I used 'uptime'to check the changes in running time！ How to turn off the trigger！ sudo grep "3:3[0-9]" /var/log/syslog | grep -i "unattended\|reboot" Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/ Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-dpkg.log Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades-shutdown.log Sep 19 03:30:53 armbian-ramlog[451]: unattended-upgrades/unattended-upgrades.log Sep 19 03:30:53 cron[604]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) Sep 19 03:30:54 systemd[1]: Started Unattended Upgrades Shutdown. I have tried to experiment, but it still doesn't work： 50unattended-upgrades " Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "false"; " Please help help Thank you.

Can I use the Armbian 25.8.1 noble XFCE thinkboard/S image for an ASUS ChromeBook C100P, which is no longer supported by Google, to convert in Linux Debian notepad?

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.

many thanks, JMCC but I couldn't, for the life of me get it to install. After trying to install whatever armhf .deb files I could, I got stuck with 3 missing deps. After more fiddling and basically copying every possible deb file to the apt cache, somehow I made it worse. I give up for today, it's been a couple of hours after my dayjob already. Wanted to use the tinkerboard a video streamer/lite computer for the bedroom but without acceleration for youtube, netflix and even my own movies, might as well get one of those crappy android sticks. I'm affraid that without some automagic script to run it all I'm lost this is what I succeded in getting: The following packages have unmet dependencies: media-buster-legacy-tinkerboard : Depends: qtmultimedia5-examples but it is not going to be installed Depends: qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5 but it is not going to be installed Depends: kodi-rk but it is not installable Depends: mpv-legacy but it is not installable Depends: librga2 but it is not installable

Sorry, it's working now.

Hi, In the documentation (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-kernel-config) it says: "User provided kernel config: If the file userpatches/linux-$LINUXFAMILY-$BRANCH.config exists, it will be used instead of the default one from config." Is there a way to define only the desired changes to the kernel parameters?

Hi! Now https://github.armbian.com/configng not working from RU. W: Не удалось получить https://github.armbian.com/configng/dists/stable/InRelease Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8001::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8000::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8003::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Невозможно инициализировать соединение с github.armbian.com:443 (2606:50c0:8002::153). - connect (101: Сеть недоступна) Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.111.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.110.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.108.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Не удалось соединиться с github.armbian.com:443 (185.199.109.153): время ожидания для соединения истекло Upgrade armbian-config is not possible. Is there any mirror of this repo?

@SteeMan That is actually a good question, to which I do not have the answer. Here's a picture of the chip itself: I have not been able to find any information on that particular chip, so it may as well be nand...

@Qvy Are you sure you actually have emmc and not the older plain nand? Android kernels have support for raw nand. That support never was put into mainline linux as emmc became the standard. A lot of older TV boxes used raw nand as that was cheaper at the time. And sometimes identical looking boxes will have different components. For example I have TX3 Mini boxes that some come with emmc and some come with nand. And only those with emmc are supported by mainline linux kernels.

I did not get display before but just tested again, and indeed I do! I'm very surprised about it. I know that I do not require eMMC to work but it is much more reliable imo, and I think it would be a more complete build if I could get it to work

OK. I think workaround is to re-download / re-install armbian.key from repository. As key was already changed.

You can run Armbian just fine only from SD card, I do that on a Beelink box, you do not NEED emmc to work. Did you get picture on the monitor?

Hello good people, it's update time! I have made a bit of progress but got stuck again. Here's what I did : I have tested the pads I found next to the SDCard and indeed, they were serial connections. With a little bit of brain power and luck, I figured out that the one with the square pad is GND, and both in the middle are tx/rx. Please don't judge my deskmat... Once that was done, I was able to connect to the serial port through a terminal and armbian surprizingly booted. I was able to test the 3 different DTBs that are supposedly compatible with my board and all of them booted, though with no luck of getting the eMMC working. I then got the idea to find the dtb of the original android install and got to work. I was able to extract a dtb.img file, which after some work, got 2 dtb files out of it, supposedly for both 1G/8G and 2G/16G versions of the board, the later being mine. Sadly it does not work as is, but I believe that it gives me enough information to keep going. But here's the road block, no matter my attempts yesterday at trying to get the correct code inside of the dtb file, nothing would get the emmc to work. Otherwise everything works fine, the armbian install for that board is not the cleanest but after fixing a few things, I was able to ssh into it through network and work on it from there. If there's a kind soul out there with dtb manipulation skills, I would be grateful to get help from you!

@Igor is the case, I upgraded from bookworm to trixie

this can easily be answered with a quick web search or AI request for "disadvantage of LPAE on armhf". As expected, one of the drawbacks is increased use of memory when the benefit of larger addressable memory applies only to few installations and in a limited way.