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Ok, figured it out My first mistake was not copying the proper u-boot file to the /boot folder cause the folder didn't exist when I flashed it with Balena Second, this box has a weird set of hardware that had issues with CoreELEC and even the Official Android upgrade, hence bricking into the Android dead robot and allowing me to force an upgrade with the official Android that fixed the partitions so I could run Armbian Third, the correct DTB for this box was meson-gxm-q200.dtb that makes everything works (attached a hw info file for future references) As of the moment, the Armbian is working perfectly. SSH works and it's displaying everything correctly. Not going to mess with Wi-Fi cause I don't really care about it. Again, thank you so much SteeMan for the help, the instructions and everything. I'll upload the hw_info and the URL for both "official" Android 7.1.1 upgrades (PC and SD flash images) for anyone to find cause it took me around a week to find those. Official MeCool BB2 Pro Android: https://www.geekbuying.com/geekgiz/2018/06/mecool-bb2-pro-s912-3gb16gb-tv-box-firmware-update-20180202/?admitad_uid=b4ee2a23c13552c70bd97fdfc0371b76&utm_source=4pda.ru&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ilia hw_info.log

OK, thank you... was looking for the script on google...😁 I can confirm that the entries marked after "openmediavault" in the original /etc/fstab on the SD were not copied to /rootfs/etc/fstab in emmc. After copying them manually, and reboot, OMV and docker started correctly. Only two disks appear as missing from OMV, but all services seem ok, so I will post this question on the OMV forums, as I think it is best suited there.

@JaydenWithaWhy ok ,the source is right. The multitool should leave a dmesg log in the MULTITOOL partition of the sdcard; that log could be handy to understand what's wrong. Also you can access via SSH and run the multitool from there, so you may get some clearer output and some more details about the error. A last note, I never tested it with a 128gb sdcard; it should work but bugs are around the corner...

Sorry, bad copy-paste, using meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb USB ports don't work. Changed to meson-gxm-q201.dtb USB ports work, managed to get to desktop but no wired network. I see the port up but it tells me the cable is disconnected. Going to try meson-gxm-s912-libretech-pc.dtb and see how it goes. I just want to say, thank you SteeMan, thanks to your post and your instructions, I might be able to use this old box for something useful.

@jock, I got my version of Multiool at the top of this topic, to be exact, it was https://users.armbian.com/jock/web/rk3318/multitool.img.xz

What download are you using? There is no meson-gxm-s912-mecool-bb2-pro.dtb in Armbian builds.

Update: I managed to brick my box to a dead Android screen. Then got it upgraded to Android 7.1.1 cause I finally found an image. Booted armbian and it gets all the way to log in screen using the meson-gxm-s912-mecool-bb2-pro.dtb but it doesn't detect anything on the USB ports with a "debounce" error on both of them and seems that the nic is up but I don't see the box in my DHCP server. Any advice is greatly appreciated Best regards

May be worth looking into armbian-install script? Just a thought.

Instructions to build mpv, for anyone trying it with trixie... I don't see any pre-compilation options related to v4l2request https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=360902#p2172777 https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdyX3k8vOhw

From my tests, ffmpeg works fine with hardware acceleration under Debian Trixie, but packaged mpv (AFAIR it is v0.4.0) does always fails hardware decoding.

Hello again I have recreated /var/log/nginx and also /var/spool/postfix as it wasn't also not copied and postfix@-.service didn't start. Now I see that /srv does not get populated with the mount points of disks by-uuid... Excuse me if I repeat my question: what gets copied over with armbian-install? Just to have a list of what I have to recreate. Thank you.

Has anybody had success with ffmpeg-v4l2request under Debian TRIXIE? I have seen successful reports from Jammy and Noble users... are they still having success?

No one has ever submitted this for inclusion in Armbian. This is a community supported board. If anyone were to submit this as a PR it would almost certainly be included as the approval process for community supported boards is a low bar, basically that it doesn't break the build.

This is my current uptime, with a running smb, torrent server, and 4 docker containers. It's a shame that the voltage fix never seems to be “officially” adopted. A system hardly needs to be any more stable than this

I am using :- [ Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)](https://dl.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/Noble_vendor_server) from :- [Radxa Rock 5B Plus - Armbian](https://www.armbian.com/rock-5b-plus/) Trying to turn fan on on Radxa Rock 5B+ selecting the device using armbian-config actually makes it disappear I am getting `line 3: echo: write error:Device or resource busy`

We're aware

@rpq399 HI! Can you share links to firmware and usb modules and the way to reinstall before the reboot, please?

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I have tried A lot of ROMs and they do not work. The device is not working now. Please help. Thank you.

I'm also seeing the expired LE Certificate today. I posted my report in the Beginners Section here to get more visibility, but it's waiting for moderator approval.

Firefox Browser screenshot:

Err:6 https://apt.armbian.com noble InRelease Certificate verification failed: The certificate is NOT trusted. The certificate chain uses expired certificate. Could not handshake: Error in the certificate verification. [IP: 152.53.81.238 443]

Let's Encrypt Certificate has expired for apt.armbian.com openssl s_client -connect apt.armbian.com:443 -servername apt.armbian.com < /dev/null 2>&1 | grep -E "(Verify return code|subject|issuer|notBefore|notAfter)" notAfter=Sep 25 23:05:16 2025 GMT notAfter=Sep 25 23:05:16 2025 GMT subject=CN=apt.armbian.com issuer=C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=E6 Verify return code: 10 (certificate has expired)

Not sure if I posted this in the right location, kindly move the thread as necessary. Or please let me know where.

@JaydenWithaWhy Multitool is supposed to resize the partition to the whole size of the media as soon as you run it for the first time on the box. About the "command not found" and black box issues, I'm not aware about. When you see the Terms, you can scroll up and down and Enter key will just proceed to the main menu. Where did you download the software?