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@jockNow, I've finally solved this problem. Successfully flashed the latest version of armbian, https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_noble_current_6.12.63_gnome_ desktop.img.xz Next, I will share my problem-solving journey. I found that I couldn't enter maskrom/loader mode anyway, and when I accidentally inserted the USB flash drive into the multitool.img into the TV box and powered it directly on, I found that it actually started the system directly in the USB flash drive. So I guess that it may have changed the boot order after flashing the loader.bin before, and the armbian system I flashed in before it continued to toss before it could be configured, probably because the system files of the root partition were corrupted, causing it to not boot normally. Therefore, I simply tried to flash the firmware of the rk3188-box in the official community directly into the USB flash drive, because after these images are flashed into the USB flash drive, there is only the root partition, that is, the system. And there is no boot partition. I guess the boot partition may have been written somewhere else, and I don't need to worry about it anymore. So, I plugged the USB flash drive into the latest rk3318 firmware into the box and waited for a few minutes after powering on it directly and starting it, it obtained the IP address assigned by my router DHCP, I was so excited, I quickly connected to the rk3318-box through SSH, and made the preliminary configuration. Quickly enter the command armbian-install and select item 2, and immediately write the system on the USB flash drive to emmc. After the writing is completed, turn it off, unplug the USB flash drive, power on, wait for a few minutes, and the startup is successful. It means that I have successfully flashed the phone this time. Thank you very much for your help. @jockand @fabiobassa, You're passionate and highly skilled.

@jockLater, I tried to install rkdeveloptool on another Linux server and flashed the loader.bin first and then the image by entering the command. Finally successfully flashed. But tragedy is about to be born, when the flash is successful, I did not SSH to connect to the new armbian and configure the relevant configuration immediately, but shut down and prepare to re-enter maskrom mode to flash the desktop version of the image again, the result is that this time I can no longer enter maskrom mode, no matter how long I press the reset button to plug in USB 2.0 OTG or press it, the box will no longer enter maskrom mode. Along with this, it could not start the Armbian system that was flashed before. I began to wonder if it was painted into bricks, but this board shouldn't be so fragile.

I found the reason. (Different function of Pin 100) cm5-io: PCIe_PWR_EN rpi-cm4-io: nEXTRST used for USB hub reset With rpi-cm4-io and no pcie device, linux sets PCIe_PWR_EN=0 (turn off pcie) But rpi-cm4-io thinks that nEXTRST=0 (always reset usb hub) The temporary solution is: For the pause of compile, please turn on kernel config When kernel config appears, sudo vi ./cache/sources/linux-kernel-worktree/6.1__rk35xx__arm64/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3576-armsom-cm5-rpi-cm4-io.dts Add the following fix in order to always turn on pcie vcc3v3_pcie0: vcc3v3-pcie0 { ... regulator-boot-on; regulator-always-on; enable-active-high; ... }; I do not know how the .dts is generated, so the patch can be made by an expert of Armbian.

To be honest I don't know how to do this and even more I am not sure in correctness of of my code in term of conventions. I mean that for example I add #define-s with names ES8388_xxx to header file ES8228 and so on.

URGENT: Kernel update already applied, bootloader points to 6.12.58! Current state: - Running: 6.12.44 - Boot configured for: 6.12.58 (symlinks updated) - usr-merge still broken (duplicate files in /bin, /sbin) Questions: 1. Should I revert boot symlinks to 6.12.44 immediately? 2. ODROID HC4 specific: Which file actually boots (Image vs vmlinuz)? 3. Will 6.12.58 boot with broken usr-merge? 4. Emergency procedure if forced to reboot? NOTE: I'm NOT taking any action until getting community advice.

I stopped using netplan and its extra yaml layer on top of NetworkManager or systemd-networkd. I have a handful of VLANs (and several managed switches and cables in- and outside the house and also bridges 'on top' of those VLANs and USB/4G/WiFi as well. Several ISP's also use VLANs, so a must to have that working properly. It all works fine based on only NetworkManager essentially, but if needed I would do direct setup with ip tool. I have also Opensuse, that does not use netplan, but works simply by exchanging .nmconnection files with Debian. No new study or testing for days/weeks/months. Not Ubuntu because of that netplan and it generates .nmconnection files, so overwriting your own. The problem is, NetworkManager package in Ubuntu has a dependency on netplan.io package. So if you purge netplan.io , also NetworkManager is removed. This is not the case in Debian, hence Ubuntu again after 5 years when they also introduced could-init, turns out to be a PITA and simply waste of time for me. So for example for my ROCK3A (similar to your BPI-M5), I just threw away the Armbian Noble install and cloned Armbian Bookworm from NanoPi-R6C and later upgraded in-place to Trixie. Same networking, very little effort, almost unattended. As a sort of sick joke (for experienced home Linux users at least), also RPL put netplan and cloud-init as default in their images. There are several hacks/tweaks/workarounds on that forum. Even more because also many RPi users still use ifupdown and interfaces file (and dhcpcd based although not needed for static). Maybe have a look to see what could be best for you. I basically removed/blocked additional package sources lists, so I get the same on ARM as on x86-64. But note that that is for servers based, pure client computing should work out of the box if you have standard/average/common router, like ISP's 'give you'. If not, lot's own work to do as you see, but not Armbian specific, just home networking and router maintenance. So maybe think about hostnames and IP addressing in your home. I have own router (own software, Linux based) for more than 2 decades basically, so easy to keep a list of MACaddresses/computers, although I still have a simple spreadsheet as a sort of design philosophy/overview. You can reserve/fix MACaddress+IPaddress in dd-wrt, so then all client computer DHCP based tools should be no issues. Else you get a mess as you see. I have setup some dev/test environment based on a physical PCIe with RTL chipset ethernet port for systemd-networkd in combination with managed ethernet switches, but first trial locked up a certain VLAN (something in the switch I think). That was 3 monhts ago and not sure if I continue with it. It means more reading the long systemd-networkd docs, it seems not worth the effort when I compare with NM and its nmtui tool. You might also have silently installed a firewall package. firewalld defaults to public zone, that blocks incoming ssh. I experienced that some time ago on 1 computer with rolling release Linux distro, so that overwrites things every now and then when a fundamental upgrade of a certain part, but noted/warned in changelogs.

The boot partition presence doesn't depend directly on the Armbian version—it's determined by the board configuration. Some configs enable an extra boot partition, especially for boards using older U-Boot versions that can't boot directly from ext4. As a result, even for the same board and Armbian version, different branches (e.g., legacy, vendor, current, edge) may behave differently. Vendor branch might use an old BSP U-Boot requiring the extra partition while mainline branch uses newer U-Boot that boots straight from ext4.

would you mind sending a pr or even upstream this change?

Armbian 25.11.2 Noble XFCE (BSP Kernel: 6.1.115) + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 2eb2fd9cd (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz) + dgVoodoo2 (https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases) + DXVK-stripped v2.4.1 30~60fps@720p (medium settings) box64 environment variables: Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY

Now I have restarted the install with a 64G u-card, and it is totally different. it only took 1 pass at networkmanager to make all the local network work in that I can ssh gene@any-local-machine and bavk again. But now I cannot get thru the router for its dnsmasq server. All addresses in the network setup are checked and correct. The hostname has been reset to its normal, e5p, has been used for 3 or 4 years but the Network is unreachable because the router isn't functioning as a dns lookup. Its even been rebooted a couple times. New faster router about 4 months back with dd-wrt in it. ip a: end0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 2a:b6:6c:1a:3a:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.71.122/24 brd 192.168.71.255 scope global noprefixroute end0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::28b6:6cff:fe1a:3a1f/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever ip r: 192.168.71.0/24 dev end0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.71.122 metric 100 192.168.71.0/24 via 192.168.71.1 dev end0 proto static metric 200 /etc/netplan/armbian.yaml: root@e5p:/etc/netplan# cat armbian.yaml network: version: 2 renderer: NetworkManager ethernets: end0: addresses: - "192.168.71.122/24" nameservers: addresses: - 192.168.71.1 dhcp4: false dhcp6: false macaddress: "2a:b6:6c:1a:3a:1f" routes: - metric: 200 to: "192.168.71.1/24" via: "192.168.71.1" Can anyone see what is wrong with that? Thanks.

Hello everyone, I hope I'm in the right place. So I got an H50 tv box (T98) that I found lying around, and installed via the multitool everything including armbian itself, which works properly. The issue that I have is that I had to do all via ssh and haven't been able to get any HDMI output, tried updating lightdm, switching it to sleek, and at this point idk what else to do. Thank you in advance!

To clarify that last line htop say's ssh_config is in the cmd listing. put a tail on /var/log/syslog since it has the newest "access time" of any file in e5p's /var/log Further: "ssh gene@coyote" successfully logged into coyote, so assuming that ssh is running set e5p's /etc/apparmor verbose on with nano. from that login "ssh gene@e5p" gets "connection reset by peer", and NO update to syslog. The rejection is not even making it to ANY of the logs. So what's next? Switch back to a 64G u-sd? Is a 128G u-sd too big? I am out of ideas. And a $3000 3d printer is Dead In The Water, no way to restore its klipper /home/gene/printer_data directory after a forced upgrade from jammy to noble. Thanks.

I've never used any other method. I'd suggest using a search engine to search for other methods to "enable multi boot on amlogic TV box"

Hi @ff255, Can you try with the following changes/additions to armbianEnv.txt: # previous load addresses # fdt_addr_r=0x01f00000 # kernel_addr_r=0x02000000 # ramdisk_addr_r=0x04000000 # new load addresses fdt_addr_r=0x01f00000 kernel_addr_r=0x02200000 ramdisk_addr_r=0x04600000 # new kernel_addr_r is aligned to 2MiB boundary # new ramdisk_addr_r is aligned to 2MiB boundary - not really neccessary afaik but "why not both?" Quick calculation below: The "next loadaddr" for kernel and ramdisk are the <previous loadaddr>+<previous filesize> 'aligned' upwards to 2MiB, Groetjes,

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26978-csc-armbian-for-rk3318rk3328-tv-box-boards/page/66/#findComment-231768 Thanks your help,jock. I hava a try to use the rkdevtool to install armbian. I just choose the iamge in url https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.151/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Rk3318-box_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img.xz. But,there catch a error message in the tool. I don't known is this image is error or other reason?

@0230826 you can follow instructions in this page by @fabiobassa The loader is there too

Heya, Of interest to anyone encountering the 2025 AIC8800 WiFi and Bluetooth hardware, and who is using Buildroot; this is the package that builds and installs everything into a Home Assistant image. Of academic interest in the present discussion also, offering minor suggestions in dts and service file. 👽 aic8800.zip

You might not have been looking at the newest dmesg, I had a hard time convincing NetworkManager to stop calling for dhcp and just use the static settings I gave it. Everytime I looked it was re-enabled. Once I had convinced it to skip the dhcp BS, network is fine, apt works, ping -c1 yahoo.com works and FF can browse the whole planet. Everything works except /incoming ssh/. I can goto that printer and log into this machine, but I can't ssh into that machine. I can't "ssh-copy-id gene@e5p" which aliases in the hosts file to 192.168.71.122, it's refusing the incoming connection that worked with 6 other machines. Is there some other tool to trace this? htop says it is ATM. Thank you.

It was found that 3.5mm jack has issue with using headset. Speakers are work good on my "uname -a Linux orangepi5-plus 6.19.0-rc5-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 12 03:03:14 UTC 2026 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux" system but micro is silent. By debugging it was found that register 0x2b(43) "DAC Control 21" has difference between actually used es8388 on OP5+ and original driver's IC es8328. Also microphone bias was never activated by bits 2,3 in register 0x03. I create patch and now microphone work properly. I don't know how to properly share this patch so I will attache it here. orangepi-5-plus_ES8388_Microphone.patch

The issue was bad SD media. Replaced the SD card and the image was written successfully. Side note. Armbian 25.5.1 does not create 2 partitions, it was designed to create only one partition. That was confusing because most instructions for installation were still referring to 2 partitions until I stumbled on a ChatGPT answer.

Hello Everyone, I've seen a few threads on these boards but wanted to create a centralized source for information. It's my understanding there are multiple variants of these boards, the one I have and used is IK316Q-EMCP_V4.1 I know there are other versions without UART ports, mine was lucky enough to have them. To build this image (adjust the compile command to your liking) git clone https://github.com/sicXnull/armbian-build cd armbian-build git checkout MXQ-PRO ./compile.sh build BOARD=mxqpro-h313 BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=yes BUILD_MINIMAL=no DESKTOP_APPGROUPS_SELECTED= DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT=cinnamon DESKTOP_ENVIRONMENT_CONFIG_NAME=config_base EXPERT=yes KERNEL_BTF=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_GIT=shallow RELEASE=bookworm Prebuilt Images Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_Mxqpro_bookworm_current_6.12.65_cinnamon_desktop.img Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_Mxqpro_bookworm_current_6.12.65_minimal.img Unfortunately this board was already flashed with MiniArch by the time i got it, so i was unable to get the original DTB. Therefore, wifi does not work Is someone able to get the DTB from this board so we can get wifi working?

Network is down: 2: end0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 All instances I could find. I think your own networking methods conflict with what is common nowadays and also might be reason ssh server is not even running or depending on a pseudo random situation. Same as for other topic where you could not reach armbian repo server.

Bit late to the thread, but just a heads up. Been reading this thread and saw the DTS with the connector numbering. So I went to the manual to check the pinout and the pin number is listed as GPIO S/N. Just thought I would add to the thread.

<https://paste.armbian.com/bebayihagi> I did look at it, but nothing yelled at me in a quick scan. Not sure what I s/b looking at. Thank you Werner.