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Please show screenshots of the selection menu step by step when you are trying to install the OS on eMMC. Show me what you see that I cannot see.

The provider's admin console, to be more precise, I'm sorry.

@werner, thanks for the information and the clarification on my concern in the documentation. This sounds like an interesting project, I do believe I'll give it a try. Again, thank you for the encouragement and the pointers.

Admittedly, I had not tested the DTBO at runtime so far, but only applied it statically to the base DTB and checked whether all desired changes were made as intended. Now I am running my device with the applied overlay and I get the following: [ 0.940862] mmc0: new HS200 MMC card at address 0001 [ 0.941665] mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 A3A561 57.6 GiB [ 0.943039] mmcblk0: p1 p2 [ 0.943767] mmcblk0boot0: mmc0:0001 A3A561 4.00 MiB [ 0.945199] mmcblk0boot1: mmc0:0001 A3A561 4.00 MiB [ 0.946661] mmcblk0rpmb: mmc0:0001 A3A561 16.0 MiB, chardev (506:0) So everything is as expected, and yes, I have ensured that my system is running with the applied overlay. In the past, I have at least once noticed far too late that my system was running in a fallback, and a feature to be tested was not applied at all. That's just the disadvantage of a fail-safe system that only leaves a non-functional system in an extreme exceptional situation. Since you haven't provided meaningful logs, I can't say what is going wrong on your end. To rule out an error when applying the overlay, you could start your system with this DTB (rk3588-nanopc-t6.dtb) , which already contains the overlay applied statically.

Thank you. What do you suggest I do? I'm not sure that the "update bootloader" choices are showing the correct devices either.

What exactly have you installed on the SD card (version, image name), and what steps have you used to install?

same problem， and 25.11.0-trunk.129 img dont work

On 99% of the devices I know, eMMC is initialized in the OS as /dev/mmcblk0, but there are cases when this is not the case. # find real mmcblk device numbered 0, 1, 2 for eMMC, SD for ret in $(find /dev -name 'mmcblk[0-2]' -and -type b) do if [ -b ${ret}boot0 ];then emmc_dev=$ret else sd_dev=$ret fi done This part of the code was implemented due to the fact that on some eMCC platforms there can be both /dev/mmsblk0 and /dev/mmcblk1(2) This works for chips that provide boot0\boot1 partitions to write the bootloader. I think we can add more sophisticated logic to handle this exception for these chips. You can add here the name of the chip on your device. The translation may not be accurate. Please specify if something is not clear.

Hi, I have the same TV Box and would like to install Armbian Linux. Could someone tell me which version to install and how?

I have a TV box with 1.5 GB lpddr3 that has been running Manjaro Arm without any problems for a long time. I used this TV box to add lpddr3 support to the dram driver many years ago. You can get the latest patch for 6GBIT lpddr3 support here: https://github.com/iuncuim/manjaro-h616/blob/main/uboot-t98-h2b-lp3/0007-shrink-ram.patch

moved to tvboxes

From the Circuit Schematic it looks like the Radxa Rock 5B+ RK3588 GPIO0-C0 is the fan I/O, GPIO pin 24, if thats correct. I will verify I can access this on the Armbian distro.

I've installed Armbian Ubuntu Nobble Cinnamon on sdcard with Polytron PDB F1 and it's chipset amlogic S912 After login with lightdm, my screen turn black, What I should do?

Hello, I have two Orange Pi Zero 2 for two years, I didn't know what to do with it. Yesterday I have installed Armbian_25.5.1_Orangepizero2_noble_current_6.12.23. The serial was a bit buggy during installation (display + key press), I have used option -L with screen: screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Thank you for your great work !

Hello. I have x96q DDR3 v5.1 box. I flashed vontar h618 image with patched dtb. Everything seems fine except extended file properties. Docker need these properties to operate normally. Can you suggest image with extended file properties support for my box with working ethernet?

Orange pi 5 wifi now supports injection mode using nexmon. Kali distro available from setup menu.

You don't have to run on bare-metal. A proper VM will do too and is probably the better solution. Yes. Cross-compiling is used for everything that's not native. You're aware that the command in the docs is just an example, right?

Armbian does not come with some sort of admin console. Please elaborate. Try different patch cable. moved

where exactly does this error show up? while downloading with your browser? while writing to the sdcard? while booting? Please elaborate. debug boot issues: https://debug.armbian.de

@igor I think what you're suggesting is that I build my own Ubuntu 24.04 image using the info on the page; am I correct? I could be talked into this but first I would have to build a 24.04 system - my three desktops and one laptop are all running 25.04, soon to move to 25.10. I could sacrifice the "old beater"... Reading these instructions, I believe that running 24.04 on an X86/64 machine I could build an ARM system; does that make sense? This comment worries me though: I'm trying to create a minimal IOT image; is that a separate pathway? Thanks in advance, and as always thanks for Armbian!

Hi @loeriver, Yes, it depends a bit on what brand/type and how you connect the USB to serial converter. The ones i use to monitor the serial console on all my SBCs have these spurious events as well, even when I do not connect the +5Vdc on the serial/UART end. For me they are sometimes preventing a full board shutdown as they seem to leach power to the SBC (not sure how this is happening electrically, perhaps some pull-ups allowing current to flow from RX into the Vcc of the board?). You could try to remove the dongle from the system to see if that has any effect to rule this out completely. Groetjes,

I have the default radxa image rock-5b-plus_bookworm_kde_b2 image with the fan working :- https://github.com/radxa-build/rock-5b-plus/releases/download/rsdk-b2/rock-5b-plus_bookworm_kde_b2.output.img.xz I/We need to try and find how this was built and the Linux DTD file the `uname -a` kernel reports as "Linux rock-5b-plus 6.1.84-1-rk2410" kernel. rsetup :- https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5b/getting-started/interface-usage/fan https://github.com/radxa-pkg/rsetup

Right, that's the downside - anyone with a different eMMC chip will see a drop in performance. I've just given that overlay a try - thank you for suggesting it. I put it in to /boot/overlay-user, then edited /boot/armbianEnv.txt to include the line user_overlays=rk3588-nanopc-t6-emmc . Unfortunately, it then failed to boot. I had to put in an SD card, boot from that, mount the eMMC partition, and then remove the overload from armbianEnv.txt to get it to boot successfully from the eMMC again.

You will certainly gain many grateful users whose devices are not equipped with an affected eMMC, but who still have to suffer from the slowdown nonetheless. Does the attached overlay work for you?rk3588-nanopc-t6-emmc.dtbo

If I understood a bit better what the script is doing, i.e. this part: Then maybe I could help with updating it to work with the Radxa products.