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Hi there, It's quite beginner question, so I started it here. Just got my OPi zero 3, for now I can connect it to my ethernet network (with DHCP), but have no monitor / mouse / keyboard for going through initial setup (root password, "normal" user name, full name and password. How can I prepare official SD image for such case? Laurent

Hi there, It's quite beginner question, so I started it here. Just got my OPi zero 3, for now I can connect it to my ethernet network (with DHCP), but have no monitor / mouse / keyboard for going through initial setup (root password, "normal" user name, full name and password. How can I prepare official SD image for such case? Laurent EDIT - ADMIN PLEASE DELETE, POSTED IN WRONG PLACE, CORRECTED.

Please rollback and re-enable all PPS_ clients by yourself , thank you.

You're right - the dtb is gxbb-p200. However, actual RAM is 1 GB total. Booting Emuelec 4.3 will show you that info. But that particular game-stick does not have an Android boot-loader so maybe that's why Armbian is unable to boot. 🤔

Well other option is the upstream broke somehow. KDE neon is based on their testing branch so if there is a faulty package uploaded desktop breaks. Though we won't dive into this since KDE is no officially supported desktop environment by us. We mostly do GNOME and XFCE only. We don't have resources to deal with more while we wish we would/could.

Hi, again, Once again, thanks for your help. Well, change to edge kernel, and no joy... Gonna try a vendor kernel... Don't know if the problem is kernel related or files, since this happened when i just received the update...

Well yes and no. This depends in board family and how well support is matured. In case of rk3588 support is very basic. This is also an LTS kernel which means no new features will be available and only security fixes will be applied. Enhanced hdmi support is available in edge kernel and also in rockchip bsp which we call vendor. If the system is accessible via terminal or ssh, use armbian-config to switch kernels. Otherwise - if available - download an image matching DE and kernel or use the build framework to build your own.

Hi, Thanks a lot for your help. 👍 Indeed i'm using 6.12... Where can i find vendor or edge kernel? In another PC's i use mainline kernels without problems, but i think that can't be used on arm system... Once again, many thanks

Expected. tl;dr: use vendor or edge kernel and retry

Hello, I have a NanoPi R6S and have just attempted the presented adjustment on my Armbian Install but it looks like udev fails to rename the interfaces at boot due to the fact that the kernel is doing that before ? I don't really have a lot of experience here but becaus of this the NetworkManager vlan mapping and IP addresses get mangled up thus resulting in my device not working as intended. Could there be something that I am doing wrong ?

Hi there I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) KDE Neon image from may 26, 2025. After download this image and installing it, Wayland was working fine, not problems at all. Then, after a system upgrade, if i choose Wayland from session manager, the system freezes and i can't boot with Wayland, only X11... Before the update, the system was smooth, now it's really laggy....Like i said, i'm using Desktop image with Armbian Linux v6.12 KDE Neon (Ubuntu 24.04) There's something wrong with the update Anyone knows why is this happening, and any turnaround to use Wayland again?

Thank you very much @c0rnelius, using your image and (for France) I'm almost good. The only errors in the dmesg are the HDMI audio errors but it works... However loading GPU overlay or not, I have a problem decoding videos. To reproduce: - download this mp4 video test file (https://www.sample-videos.com/video321/mp4/720/big_buck_bunny_720p_30mb.mp4) ) open in chromium, make it full-screen. Denis

I didn't have that much time to look at my Orange Pi board. On work, i have to deal with similar issues, but regarding another Soc (imx8mp with vivante GPU). But on work i have support from other people / offices. Meanwhile the grafik looks like to work, but also with lot of kernel patches and fixing involved (we have a yocto based build, and even Qt is somehow patched to work with our yocto base, wtf) on my orange pi board testet out some kernels. tried the official debian / ubuntu kernels (from orangepi.org) the version 5.10 kernels versions are booting (from sd) but no Grafik support ... the version 6.1.43 kernels are not even booting .... wtf 😞 i tried a SPI flushing, no change the armbian Kernels are booting !!! yay ! but : Armbian 25.5.1 with 6.1.115 (vendor kernel) looks like it has gpu support ! yay ! at least glxinfo shows the gpu string 🙂 but no emmc support 😞 even with booting from sd the kernel does not find /dev/mmcblk0 (mmcblk1 is detected as the sd card) 😞 Desktop images with Armbian Linux v6.12: it detects the emmc, so booth /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk1 are present, yay ! 🙂 but no grafik card support 😞 what do Im missing ? on the newer kernel Im need the device tree overlay for panthor (gpu_panthor) right? But didnt manage to get the gpu up ... mesa always fail to create the context and than switching back to the software renderer (regarding glxinfo logs) So im stuck atm .... and yes, its frustrating!

@mantouboji recently there was a substantial change to the build flags for the entire sunxi64 platform in this PR: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8368 Looking at the diff (https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8368/files#diff-003c7426ff865cb4e5d2d17e324129fe9de266da1f83a11e290670929e55036dL1105-L1106), it seems PPS client (whatever that is, sorry, not familiar with it) flags have been removed. Maybe this can help you raise an appropriate "bring this back" issue.

Hi all, Sorry for such a kiddy question but I couldn’t find the answer. I have a bit another device than expected. I have Banana Pi 3 device with Armbian-bpi-SpacemiT 24.5.0-trunk Noble and i'm trying to install a new kernel to it. I've installed linux-allwinner kernel 6.8.0-60.63.1 and all the stuff with it. linux-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed] linux-headers-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed,automatic] linux-image-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed,automatic] linux-tools-allwinner/noble-security,noble-updates,now 6.8.0-60.63.1 riscv64 [installed] And current boot kernel looks like ``` # mkimage -l /boot/Image FIT description: Linux 6.1.15-legacy-k1 Created: Wed May 1 17:17:59 2024 Image 0 (kernel) Description: Linux 6.1.15-legacy-k1 Created: Wed May 1 17:17:59 2024 Type: Kernel Image Compression: uncompressed Data Size: 32397312 Bytes = 31638.00 KiB = 30.90 MiB Architecture: RISC-V OS: Linux Load Address: 0x01400000 Entry Point: 0x01400000 Hash algo: crc32 Hash value: f571b82e Default Configuration: 'conf-default' Configuration 0 (conf-default) Description: Generic Linux kernel Kernel: kernel ``` The question is - How to make from vmlinuz-6.8.0-60-generic a kernel with the same format like above ? When I try to make it like this `mkimage -A riscv -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x01400000 -e 0x01400000 -d /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-60-generic /tmp/Image` I have another kernel format. ``` Created: Fri Jul 18 15:49:58 2025 Image Type: RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 38608384 Bytes = 37703.50 KiB = 36.82 MiB Load Address: 01400000 Entry Point: 01400000 ```

I don't think that there was an intentional removal. Feel free to re-enable, test and send a PR.

Who in charge of the SUNXI64 edge kernel config ? Why removed all PPS device support in 6.15.4 kernel?

I see. The logs show that you have setup armbianEnv.txt to boot from a filesystem that the later logs show is an EXT4 filesystem, located on the first partition of first namespace of the first found NVMe device. The logs do not show any blockdevice for mmc1 (which appears to be the driver linked to the SD card). No logging usually means that there is no device detected. Do note that things will indeed not be simple if you change your setup after gathering diagnostics logs. People are willing to help, but correct diagnostics information is needed for people to actually help you. Grt,

@djurny No, its not a simple as that, its acutally not on the install on NVMe anymore.

I got a radxa rock 5t and trying to install armbian(https://www.armbian.com/radxa-rock-5t), arimbian NOT boot and I can see the indicator light on the board is showing a steady green light. I boot with the official image https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock5/rock5t/low-level-dev/maskrom/linux and insert the sd card(with armbian img), and run such command, then I can boot armbian from SD card sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_idbloader.img bs=512 skip=64 count=8000 sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=working_u-boot.itb bs=512 skip=16384 count=8000 sudo dd if=working_idbloader.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=64 conv=notrunc sudo dd if=working_u-boot.itb of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 seek=16384 conv=notrunc BTW, it seems there's no rock-5t tag, so I selected the 5b one

moved to off-topic since not about Armbian but 3rd party img.

expected. HDMI or hw support in general in 6.12.y is very basic and I am often impressed that hdmi actually works on some boards with this kernel. tl;dr: use vendor or edge kernels If need stuff running. current won't receive any further feature updates but security fixed only.

Hi, I have a few sbcs live while most are laying on the shelf waiting for tests. I have a PiHole on an Orangepi One Plus. On a ROC RK3399 PC PLUS I have paperless-ngx running in Docker. On an OPi5 Plus I have Invidious, yourspotify and something else I frequently forget about. Most likely something from similar importance

Hi @AaronNGray, Did you check if there is indeed an SD card inserted? If so, try to remove it then re-insert it while the system has booted. Also, seems that you have an NVMe storage device attached, on which the OS was installed - not the SD card as you mentioned? As @laibsch mentioned, the eMMC is detected and available as /dev/mmcblk0, but seems that SD card is not seen (if it was inserted). Grt,

I downloaded Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img.xz and used unxz to uncompress it. Then I wrote it to a flash drive using: sudo dd if=Armbian_25.5.1_Nanopi-r6s_trixie_current_6.12.32_minimal.img of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=4194304 status=progress sync When I put the SD card in the slot, the heartbeat LED runs, the keyboard initializes, the LED light for the connected LAN lights green, but I get nothing on the monitor (HDMI). The SD cards are amazon basics 64GB Class 10 U3 A2 cards. I tried two different cards and got the same results. I just tried Debian from FriendlyElec, and that worked using the same cards and method, and that worked. Is there a trick to getting these images to work? I'd much prefer to be on the mainline kernel with Trixie (which I know will be released soon). Please advise.