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Hi, I guess this happens because of the "-x" option in rsync which tells rsync to not cross the filesystem hierarchy. /var/log is typically a mount (/dev/zram1) so it will not be synced.

I suggest booting from µSD and then making a copy of eMMC to somewhere and reinstall after that. You can then restore whatever you need from your eMMC backup. Most likely that will be vastly less headache and much higher chances of success.

@pochopsp - as you contacted me via message directly, let me respond here: i can only repeat what @SteeMan already said - you can either do your own research and experiments if you get some newer u-boot built and working (which will be a lot of learning and effort and can also fail in the end) or you accept that running from emmc will not work on your box and continue to use an sd card (which should work nearly as good as running from internal storage) - there is no easy tutorial to get it working, either it works out of the box (as the box is closer to one of the supported and tested ones) or you have to find your own way to get it working with those tv boxes ...

Can I just follow the Debian rescue chroot tutorial ? (with appropriate partitions) https://wiki.debian.org/RescueLive

"Regular" mpv coming in Debian Bookworm works perfectly fine, as Bullseye did also. There should be no need for custom mpv builds, unless some features have been removed.

The rsync instruction copies the files using an exclude list. However that list does not explain why folders other than /var/log/journal are missing in /var/log. # cat /usr/lib/armbian-install/exclude.txt /boot/* /dev/* /proc/* /sys/* /media/* /mnt/* /run/* /tmp/* /ddbr/* /var/log/journal

mainline support for rk3588 is still incomplete. If you need vpu stuff mostly work you need to use vendor kernel which is based on rockchip bsp.

Should be resolved

HI. We cannot support 3rd party images, therefore please refrain from asking further questions about other images. Though Armbian should work just fine with this board. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ There are some pitfalls that might cause issue. This board comes with a spi flash memory which, when containing a poor/bad boot loader, can prevent proper boot of any OS. In this case rkdevtool might be necessary to erase via USB if possible.

It would be great, if you could post results of all your findings here, so that someone else could save a few hours on this problem and rather spend them on another one;)

Device: Opi5-Plus. Have the same issue on Debian-Trixie kernel-6.16.8-edge-rockchip64 mpv (0.40.0_ deos not support vpu hardware acceleration. mpv --hwdec=v4l2request-copy is too slow to decode 4K/60 video, very high dropped frames. mpv --hwdec=v4l2request '/media/jfl/writable/home/jfl/Videos/Two Steps From Hell - Unleashed-15ZqpVOjZEc.mp4' ● Video --vid=1 (h264 1920x1080 60 fps) [default] ● Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (aac 2ch 44100 Hz 128 kbps) [default] AO: [pipewire] 44100Hz stereo 2ch floatp VO: [gpu] 1920x1080 yuv420p AV: 00:00:04 / 00:05:41 (1%) A-V: 0.000 Exiting... (Quit) The is a mpv-full-git version @junari had build for arch linux which support v4l2request. The PKGBUILD https://github.com/iuncuim/manjaro-h616/blob/main/mpv-v4l2request/PKGBUILD Don't have experience to compile or build packages for Linux. Experience Armbian users and developers might be able to build the mpv-full-git for Debian Trixie.

Well I'm glad you found a way to get what you really needed and now have something that works : )

Many thanks for the reply! Good news is that with your guideline and a bit more information from qwen-code, I managed to chroot to it. It's a bit more complicated to do from a Ryzen Linux machine. A translation layer called "qemu-aarch64-static" is required. It's far more straightforward on a PineBook Pro due to the same architecture. Not so good ones is that reinstalling the old RPi5 specific 6.6 kernel still fails to boot. update-intramfs was automatically run during reinstalling the old kernel and uinitrd in /boot was updated by some scripts(according to last modified time stamp), with symlink as described in armbianEnv.txt. Everything seems to be at the right place and wired in the expected way. Quite confused. Great news is that despite the unsuccesful to restore the kernel, the chroot provide me an enough environment to utilize calcardbackup to extract the personal data from NextCloud database. Better news is that I took this opportunity to start fresh with Armbian 25.8.1 Debian Trixie with Kernel 6.12.44. So far it works beautifully on RPi5.

Ok, figured it out My first mistake was not copying the proper u-boot file to the /boot folder cause the folder didn't exist when I flashed it with Balena Second, this box has a weird set of hardware that had issues with CoreELEC and even the Official Android upgrade, hence bricking into the Android dead robot and allowing me to force an upgrade with the official Android that fixed the partitions so I could run Armbian Third, the correct DTB for this box was meson-gxm-q200.dtb that makes everything works (attached a hw info file for future references) As of the moment, the Armbian is working perfectly. SSH works and it's displaying everything correctly. Not going to mess with Wi-Fi cause I don't really care about it. Again, thank you so much SteeMan for the help, the instructions and everything. I'll upload the hw_info and the URL for both "official" Android 7.1.1 upgrades (PC and SD flash images) for anyone to find cause it took me around a week to find those. Official MeCool BB2 Pro Android: https://www.geekbuying.com/geekgiz/2018/06/mecool-bb2-pro-s912-3gb16gb-tv-box-firmware-update-20180202/?admitad_uid=b4ee2a23c13552c70bd97fdfc0371b76&utm_source=4pda.ru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ilia hw_info.log

OK, thank you... was looking for the script on google...😁 I can confirm that the entries marked after "openmediavault" in the original /etc/fstab on the SD were not copied to /rootfs/etc/fstab in emmc. After copying them manually, and reboot, OMV and docker started correctly. Only two disks appear as missing from OMV, but all services seem ok, so I will post this question on the OMV forums, as I think it is best suited there.

@JaydenWithaWhy ok ,the source is right. The multitool should leave a dmesg log in the MULTITOOL partition of the sdcard; that log could be handy to understand what's wrong. Also you can access via SSH and run the multitool from there, so you may get some clearer output and some more details about the error. A last note, I never tested it with a 128gb sdcard; it should work but bugs are around the corner...

Sorry, bad copy-paste, using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb USB ports don't work. Changed to meson-gxm-q201.dtb USB ports work, managed to get to desktop but no wired network. I see the port up but it tells me the cable is disconnected. Going to try meson-gxm-s912-libretech-pc.dtb and see how it goes. I just want to say, thank you SteeMan, thanks to your post and your instructions, I might be able to use this old box for something useful.

@jock, I got my version of Multiool at the top of this topic, to be exact, it was https://users.armbian.com/jock/web/rk3318/multitool.img.xz

What download are you using? There is no meson-gxm-s912-mecool-bb2-pro.dtb in Armbian builds.

Update: I managed to brick my box to a dead Android screen. Then got it upgraded to Android 7.1.1 cause I finally found an image. Booted armbian and it gets all the way to log in screen using the meson-gxm-s912-mecool-bb2-pro.dtb but it doesn't detect anything on the USB ports with a "debounce" error on both of them and seems that the nic is up but I don't see the box in my DHCP server. Any advice is greatly appreciated Best regards

May be worth looking into armbian-install script? Just a thought.

Instructions to build mpv, for anyone trying it with trixie... I don't see any pre-compilation options related to v4l2request https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360902#p2172777 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyX3k8vOhw

From my tests, ffmpeg works fine with hardware acceleration under Debian Trixie, but packaged mpv (AFAIR it is v0.4.0) does always fails hardware decoding.

Sorry if I have come to the wrong place. A friend has given me an Orange Pi 5 Plus, fitted with a 1GB SSD, and I have been trying to get it started up. According to its previous owner, the SSD had been completely erased (I don't know why). It had no SD card with it when I got it. I downloaded the online instruction manuals, and set about trying to start it up, using a suitable 32GB SD card. I first tried with (OrangePi) Ubuntu, but ran into problems using Balena Etcher. It apparently transfers the Ubuntu Image to the SD card, but just as it appears to complete the process of verification, it produces a helpful error message ('There was an Error'....). I also tried with other OSes, with the same result, so it seems to be either me or the OPi which is having problems. After a bit of research, I found a description of using the Linux command 'dd' to transfer an image, so I did this, under a machine with Linux Mint - this appeared to go OK. I then plugged in the SD card, and powered up the OPi. After a delay, I get what looks like a Ubuntu 'splash' page on screen, and it appears to go through an installation process (? not sure if thats whats happening). However, after several minutes, there is a message saying there is an error, and a desktop session will be started to allow debugging - but I can't get anything else to happen. I have asked the previous owner, but he says probably the bootloader is missing. (I suspect he never got it running). Here I come unstuck - I can't find any info on bootloaders - like what it is, where to get it, what to do with it, etc, so I am hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. I have gone through the instruction manual, but it seems to be slightly out of date, and I had no success using its instructions. Ideally, I would like to boot the OPi from the SSD, if that is possible, but have no idea how to go about this - and there seems to be a great deal of conflicting (wrong?) info online. I did try the Orange Pi 'official' forums, but got lost in the chinese messages which came up.

Hello again I have recreated /var/log/nginx and also /var/spool/postfix as it wasn't also not copied and postfix@-.service didn't start. Now I see that /srv does not get populated with the mount points of disks by-uuid... Excuse me if I repeat my question: what gets copied over with armbian-install? Just to have a list of what I have to recreate. Thank you.