All Activity

Hi, Juan the image won't boot only getting a static red led.

Maybe, but maybe the issue won't occur then. If you want it reproducable, first for yourself, make a complete image of that USB stick on other large storage device and use that as 'master problem disk'. I have an old PC with 3x 4T HDD Btrfs multidevice formatted for such cases. Btrfs can make reflink copies or do RW snapshots, so easy and fast to create a slightly modified image. There is gddrescue to make initial copy from USB-stick. Also this is a USB-stick in an SBC, all sorts of power issues might also be a root cause. You can use nbd-server and nbd-client to make large/huge images available via network, I do that for my BananaPi M1 (8T HDD). In the past for Btrfs kernel development itself for example, there was/is? a metadata only imager tool, so in case of a complex filesystem bug, you can share only meta data, the data is actually zeroed/sparse. But you need a good extra Linux computer, Windows exFAT handling makes little sense. Best to also test/use the image with a generic Debian Bookworm/Trixie computer, I use a Armbian virtual machine for such a case, running on RPi4 (if 32-bit) or ROCK5B (64-bit only). They can use NBD (as client). AFAIR you can use the sunxi kernel directly in a KVM, at least did something with a NanoPi-NEO image (same kernel as well).

This was the best working version, I also have bionic https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/cubr0yu3t9garv3rxzarg/Armbian_5.67_Aml-s805_Debian_stretch_default_3.10.108_desktop_20181207.img-1.xz?rlkey=remqj5qcnwyjl3t943qj3uh4l&dl=0

Tomas. In regards to SteeMan writing that we could 'brick' our tv box, I have recovered two tv boxes that have an amlogic chip in them. Here are my and others' notes. Some more notes there about how to install/reinstall Android for the sake of installing Armbian maybe also be useful.

I did find the files in a backup, now have to find a way to post them...

Hey - thanks for Webmin. That looks pretty slick. Nice graphics. I am going to have to do a deeper dive against cockpit but very nice. I bet both work with Tailscale which makes for nice for remote access.

sh🤫, it's a secret. check your private messages.

Nope . I will put that in my notes if I get there again. What kernel are you running

Did you check logs in the directory /var/log/ ? Did you check kernel messages by running this command in a terminal and scrolling up/down and searching for text "zfs" by press slash / ? sudo dmesg | less -I

I have been looking, but all of the links are dead, I might have a copy, but I possibly deleted it a month or 2 ago. I will look some more tomorrow, I might have it in a backup, I will let you know

Wow - thanks for Webmin. I've never heard of that one but looks nifty. I'm going to have to take a look at that. Thanks

Baaaahhhhahahahahahahah.... Sorry buddy - you have me confused with someone that understands much at all!!! I am willing to help. I COULD NOT get ZFS to work and had a zfs pool. So I clicked and typed anything I could. I believe??? that what worked was multiple >sudo armbian-update followed by > sudo armbian-config Where I installed/uninstalled/reinstalled zfs file support. Also - I could not get it to work with the current armbian I am using Kernel Version: 6.12.34

Yes the text "Speed: 1000Mb/s" posted in the white box confirms the speed is 1 Gigabit. In my experience, actual transfer speed of data to/from a mechanical hard drive should be around 80 to 100 Megabytes (with a "y") per second. But the transfer speed can be faster if data is going to/come from a solid state drive or internal NAND/EMMC. I have a 12 Terabyte hard drive in a budget USB external enclosure and it is connected to my amlogic tv box via USB 3.0, and the tv box is connected via Gigabit ethernet. I use it for backups and saving some large video files. The 80 to 90 Megabytes/sec speed over ethernet is fast enough for me. hehe ☺ I heard of Cockpit via youtube videos talking about remote administration. I was old-school and I had already install Webmin. But thanks for reminding me that Cockpit is another good option. Oh Tailscale? It seems to be fancy VPN service with file transfer and other features. That's cool. I'll give those a try someday. ☺ For just tinkering, my favorites are "md" software raid, zfs and it's raid features, Pi-Hole... and I want to try Prometheus and Grafana. But for everyday use, my favorites are straightforward Samba file server, rsync, vsftpd, xrdp remote desktop, and any remote administration that works, like Webmin. However, I want to try NFS file server on the tv box and NFS client in a Windows PC to determine if that is faster than Samba. Here is a video about that https://youtu.be/mOoO9mFE7BI Cheers mate - Peter

Hello. Thank you for your reply. In Ubuntu, I installed zfs as a kernel module by doing these commands: sudo apt install dkms -y sudo apt install zfs-dkms --no-install-recommends -y sudo apt install zfsutils-linux -y The contents of dkms packages had to be compiled. So, I saw installations of GNU C compiler, "make" and related toolchain packages, and saw source code being compiled on my monitor. Hm, that was interesting. Is the "fuse" edition of zfs that you installed any different or slower than non-fuse zfs?

Could you please help me with a link or forum where I can find the image? I'd really appreciate your reply. I saw videos on YouTube showing how to make them work, but the download links are all broken. Thank you so much for your help.

Could you please help me with a link or forum where I can find the image? I'd really appreciate your reply. I saw videos on YouTube showing how to make them work, but the download links are all broken. Thank you so much for your help.

I have stopped working with the box, since mine failed, and the Raspberry Pi zero is cheap again. The last old image was working well before my box failed, the S805 was no longer supported when I started using it. I had bought it for $1 at a hamfest as a project to figure them out.

Generally debugging is done through the UART connector: https://debug.armbian.de/

I would first suggest that you read this post: That may give you lots of reasons why you shouldn't depending on what your goals are. Installing armbian on a TV Box depends on the TV Box. Each CPU has differing levels of support (from none to fairly well supported in mainline linux). And then given there are hundreds of different TV Boxes, each will have different sets of working/non-working features depending on a variety of factors. As far as supporting a USB audio device, it shouldn't be any different than support for the device on any other linux platform/distribution. On Armbian you may need to install the linux-firmware-full package to get the driver support as by default Armbian ships with a slimed down set of firmware support.

Thank you!

Hello, how are you? With all due respect, could someone help me get an Armbian image for my TV box with an Amlogic S805 processor? Thank you very much.

Hey, I have a Banana PI M3 root@192.168.178.193's password: _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| v25.5.1 for Banana Pi running Armbian Linux 6.12.30-current-sunxi Packages: Ubuntu stable (noble) IPv4: (LAN) 192.168.178.193 (WAN) 87.160.68.42 Performance: Load: 20% Up time: 26 min Memory usage: 11% of 959M CPU temp: 47°C Usage of /: 5% of 29G Commands: Configuration : armbian-config Monitoring : htop I installed the latest image, since I had trouble to boot my old configuration. After I installed it at my TV for debuging I just saw the first boot-sequence until usually the ubuntu-boot starts in a new screen. There came no screen an the device was not available via ssh or ping. - So I decided to check the SD-Card in my ubuntu laptop. There were errrors which have been fixed. Afterwards I had still the same black screen after boot-prompt. So I was sure copied all of my files via nautilus and thought, why not starting from beginning. So I installed the latest image. - This image bootet perfect. There were a screen and I installed the user and admin credentials. - After a system update unfortunately I have the same black-screen after boot-prompt. The device is avaliable via ssh. So if we have to do debuging there is no chance without HDMI... So I think it is essential to solve this issue... @Igor Unfortunately the problem has to get solved, even when just one person is doing the HDMI-stuff. But if we don't get it resloved I see no debug-possiblities anymore if there is no ssh! - So w

the kernel I'm using now is 6.12.35, the kernel that failed was 6.12.20 until 6.12.30 the lcd didn't work, but after a few updates to 6.12.30 it worked again.