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The easiest way to do this is through a chroot (or perhaps systemd-nspawn) but how practical that will be will be dependent on your end goals. I do this all the time.

At the risk of speaking too soon, I think I have found the issue. I need to revert some changes, and do some final testing, but hopefully a PR will be inbound to fix this in the next couple of days.

Thanks for your help. I understand I can add my codes while building. However, would it be possible anyway to emulate the SBC on PC from the running image, even on a later stage?

No need to emulate anything. Customization can be done while building. Easiest is via customize-image.sh script in userpatches: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-image-customization-script

Hello, I'm pretty new to Armbian world and still trying to learn how everything works. I have got this Asus Tinker Board R2.0 that I'm trying to use with an Armbian image. However, before flashing the Armbian image to SD and boot from it, is there any way I could emulate the system on my PC, boot from a fresh Armbian ROM, change my preferred settings and install the applications I want, and then transfer the whole "personalised" ROM to an SD and boot from it on my actual Tinker Board. If I need to "initialise" the fresh Armbian ROM on the actual Tinker Board, can I then use the SD card (or an img created from it with Win32 Disk Imager or similar) to emulate it from my PC and work on that? My goal is to create/modify from my PC the image I want to boot from on the actual board, complete with my user, application and all. If it's not possible for the specific Tinker Board, is something like this generally possible for SBCs? Any help is really appreciated. Thanks!

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https://debug.armbian.de tl;dr: get an USB uart adapter and debug via serial console.

Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

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This is not solved the only tag I can add is solved. How do I change that I have an orange pi zero 3 and am trying to ssh into this board. Ive written all three minimal files to different 32gb sd cards. After I write the drive I add a blank ssh file and a wpa_supplicante.conf file with my wifi info on it. I install the os with balanaetecher or Rufus(I've tried so many things. I find my IP when I try to ssh doesn't work) but I can ping the zero. I've tried windows 8.1, and 11 plus Linux mint same thing. Could someone please help me? This probably should take 20 minutes but I've been at it for 2.5 days

Radxa-cubie-a5e second Ethernet port not work after update Armbian 25.11.0-trunk.259.

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I found the error, please don't do it again. Just Search for Supported boards before buying Partners boards that will work in this case: https://www.armbian.com/partners/

I flashed armbian into my h618, but it won't boot. I have an ubuntu image that boots it, but I don't know the password, so I need to flash armbian again. Can I use this ubuntu image to debug the armbian boot?

Probably never will until roll-over to next LTS version. We don't have people to maintain this.

You can switch to an edge kernel using armbian-config. You can install the stable edge or switch to the rolling releases and install the rolling edge. Stable edge is at 6.16.4 and should work just fine.

Even with the new version,I am still running into the same error dmesg.multitool.log

HDMI audio support was introduced in kernel version 6.15-rc1, but has yet to be backported to the Long-Term Support version. The absent audio functionality is currently the only notable issue affecting the overall user desktop experience.

I also purchased this MXQ Pro 4K 5G TV box but I'm not sure if it's rk3128 or rk322x, how do I know for sure? the host name print rk322x but cpuinfo print rk3128: rk322x_box:/ # getprop ro.hardware ro.hardware.chipname rk30board rk322x_box:/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) processor : 0 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 1 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 2 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 processor : 3 model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 48.00 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 evtstrm CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xc07 CPU revision : 5 Hardware : Rockchip RK3128 Revision : 0000 Serial : b57642ed91a64924

Recommendation: Switch to the edge kernel (eMMC drive access + better performance + more complete kernel features) I just tried out that Armbian Noble image with the vendor kernel. I noticed the eMMC drive didn't show up. Also the user interface seemed a bit sluggish. I normally use the edge kernel, it's far more complete than the vender kernel. I tried that here, and the eMMC drive appeared, and also the user interface become much smoother. You can use armbian-config to switch to the latest edge kernel (6.16.4).

Additional Tip: The sync command: Btw - an additional tip, whenever you're copying files or images, it's a good idea to finish it off with the sync command. When using cp or dd, the prompt returns when the CPU portion of the copying is done, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the final data buffer has finished transferring its data to the drive or device. The sync command holds and only returns the prompt once the buffer has finished copying to the drive or device. Note that if you're copying a batch of files, the sync command will return only when the current file has finished, not necessarily the entire batch.

"if you have ever booted a different distribution then your box will be incompatible with the Armbian build" are you serious? No matter after all this linux on arm shit problems i had last week, i really must say that a windows 10 + kodi.exe on a thin client is really the best in quality (dxva) and stability. And it only eats 1-2w more power than this u1 thingie. So, i just keep my moonlight on windows and put tvheadend together with the wintv solohd into a vmware player. bye bye.

Great!! I'm glad you got it working!

SteeMan - OK - so as a total non-developer, I will steer clear of 'mainline kernels (at least until I can learn some more😀 TallMan - I only wish everyone online was as helpful as you have been. I actually got the thing to work using your instructions, which is a first for me using online 'help'. I no longer have a useless brick. I have a red/blue flashing LED, a working desktop, and (now) a need to learn something about Armbian - this being my first sight of it. Some of it looks familiar from Mint due to the Debian heritage I also want to learn how to make the OPi boot from either the EMMC or the SDD, as I understand this is much faster - although it works, booting from the SD card clearly doesn't do justice to the OPi hardware (and life is too short😀. Thanks to all who responded - you all helped. Keith

You should also be updating your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list as well (otherwise you will be mixing bookworm armbian packages with trixie debian packages)