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Hi @jock, Thanks for suggestion, led me to dig down and found your update on R29 GPIO. Since multitool hdmi was working, I used it's bash to mount emmc and add overlays=led-config7 to armbianEnv.txt. It worked!!!! Thanks a lot for all your contribution!

thanks, it works - with a lot of time on google 😉 can you say why the armbian-install script dont work? A bug or a bad constellation of hardware e.g.?

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Hi @fabiobassa Thanks for your input. I believe this board has eMMC only—the storage chip is KLMAG1JENB-B041 (image attached, RAM visible too). Multitool also confirms eMMC when attempting to burn an image. Interestingly, CPU-Z shows Rockchip 3066 logo, while ADB reports RK3229. I trusted the ADB output more, and seeing Multitool running, I believe it’s an RK3229 only. I haven’t removed the heatsink yet to verify physically. I am attaching hardware report that i could extract using adb. Any idea why Multitool runs fine but no Armbian image boots? I’ve tried 2024 Ubuntu/Debian builds and a latest self-compiled Armbian image using Armbian Build, tried both flashing to eMMC and run from SD, including using the hidden button, nothing works—LED blinks, but no HDMI output. I really want to run linux on this Again thanks for all your contribution in the thread. Edit1- Attaching Multitool Dmesg too, if it helps. rk3229_hardware_profile.txt dmesg.multitool.log

@Kiranmoy Saha I guess you have a box with NAND , not emmc You must use an old image that supports nand , typiclly kernel 4.4.xxx and follow 1st post jump start on nand Any newer kernel doesn't have nand support

I don't know and I won't spend time investigating. We cannot provide support for 3rd party images/software.

You just have to create the nginx folder in /var/log with owner www-data (it is not created automatically): mkdir /var/log/nginx chown -R www-data:www-data /var/log/nginx systemctl restart nginx

Hi @jock, Thanks for the quick response. I’ve opened the box and attached the board images. On the back it says R29-MXQ-V2.1-221#. Sorry if I’m missing something—I’m a beginner. I thought rk322x-config runs only after Armbian boots. In my case, after flashing the image to eMMC and removing the SD, the box just blinks LED with no HDMI output. Only Multitool runs fine from SD. How can I run rk322x-config in this situation? Thanks again.

These drivers should not differ much from each other, right? Anyway, I found a reasonable patch to fix this behavior. I couldn't see this in the Armbian kernel, but what I need is: patch.

Not an Armbian kernel. You should ask at the place where you go the image with this kernel from.

If the armbian-install way does not work, you can also write the image directly to the ssd, either with a different computer or, since you were already successfully booting from usb, download the image again and dd it to the ssd. No need to do partitioning beforehand, just write to the raw device since the image already contains the partition table iirc.

Hello, Armbian 25.8.1 on Helios64 BookWorm with Linux 6.12.42-current-rockchip64. I have my system booting from SD with OMV7 installed and several docker containers running. Everything is OK. Now I want to boot from emmc. Used armbian-install selecting option boot from emmc - system on emmc. Formatting and copying goes Ok, but when I reboot from emmc (extracting th SD card), OMV7 presents the web frontend, but can't log in. journalctl reports errors accessing the drives, and looking on /etc/fstab, there's only the / partition mounted. Inserting and mounting the SD card in /mnt/sdcard I can see that in /mnt/sdcard/etc/fstab there's a lot of drives ready to be mounted : eclapton@helios64:~$ cat /mnt/sdcard/etc/fstab UUID=a398270d-9378-4f2c-bedd-590b08234484 / ext4 noatime,nodiratime,defaults,commit=120,errors=remount-ro 0 1 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 0 # >>> [openmediavault] /dev/disk/by-uuid/60c885fa-6af1-462c-bfa6-dc7fe706262f /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-60c885fa-6af1-462c-bfa6-dc7fe706262f ext4 defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl 0 2 /dev/disk/by-uuid/a79a14c0-3cf4-4fb9-a6c6-838571351371 /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-a79a14c0-3cf4-4fb9-a6c6-838571351371 ext4 defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl 0 2 /dev/disk/by-uuid/7b71362f-4bb4-48b6-8867-37faaedef2eb /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-7b71362f-4bb4-48b6-8867-37faaedef2eb ext4 defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl 0 2 /dev/disk/by-uuid/1f1ea692-d1bb-4539-a578-0647ef752770 /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-1f1ea692-d1bb-4539-a578-0647ef752770 ext4 defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl 0 2 /dev/disk/by-uuid/fac27973-2eba-43b4-acd3-2c3c2b10a5d7 /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-fac27973-2eba-43b4-acd3-2c3c2b10a5d7 ext4 defaults,nofail,user_xattr,usrquota,grpquota,acl 0 2 # <<< [openmediavault] So, I thought the actual fstab was going to be copied over, unless it has to be recreated each boot by OMV. Also, I tried to copy /srv/salt and /srv/pillar from the old system on the SD card to the new one on the emmc, as instructed un Kobol's webpage, and it helps making openmediavault-issue start, but the webpage doesn't still work. sudo systemctl status shows nginx is not able to start : eclapton@helios64:~$ sudo systemctl status nginx × nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2025-09-22 23:07:25 CEST; 57s ago Docs: man:nginx(8) Process: 40902 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CPU: 82ms sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: Starting nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server... sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 nginx[40902]: 2025/09/22 23:07:25 [emerg] 40902#40902: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (2: No such file or > sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 nginx[40902]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. sep 22 23:07:25 helios64 systemd[1]: Failed to start nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. I suspect there's somewhere I have to change /dev/mmcblk1p1 for /dev/mmcblk0p1... but where? What am I missing? Thanks for your help.

hi, i try to install the current IOT/minmal image on the intern ssd on a old thinclient. USB-Drive will ident as sda and the ssd as sdb. if i use on armbian-config the install script for install, he create two partitions (sdb1 &2 / efi & linux) but it only boot with usb drive. On the usb drive i has a BIOS boot partition, must i swaphis somehow to the ssd drive?

PR: included fd6551 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8666

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nice work @Eks Ma thanks for sharing!

Open the box, read the silkscreen on the board, run rk322x-config and configure according to silkscreen name. Probably you have a r29/h20 board

h96-m9s-rk3576_defconfig rk3576-h96-m9s.dts rk3576-h96-m9s1.dts rc.local h96-m9.config rk3576-h96-m9s.dts h96-m9.tvb Compile-configuration.zip

thank you so much for the link, after trying some of the older tinkerboard .deb archives from there I was able to install one that didn't have the two missing deps eventually and, lo and behold, I could even feel the accelerated desktop from the login window, even before confirming it with the much snappier webgl aquarium test, that jumped from about one fps to almost 60 there are still some kinks, like h264ify being installed but not doing squat (youtube is still av1 and hangs the whole system), but I'll take what I got for now as for the SOC being 2017....I'm fully aware that like everything Asus makes, it becomes e-waste after 2 years, I could probably try to flip this board online for $1 and no one would buy it, but I still believe it should be enough for me to stream video from my NAS on my secondary TV using 5-15W, kind of like those crappy Android sticks that plug into HDMI and an extra USB port I have yet to decide if my next SBC should be a rk3588 board or just bite the bullet and get some N100 SBC that's probably cheaper (I live in Europe, Orange Pi 5 probably goes for more than a used PS5 with all the taxes), can run anything and won't be forever stuck on whatever this year's trending distro is

Hi ! @jpm how exactly did you solve 2) Fixed cedar_ve compilation issues / kernel name ? I'm gettinf the same "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'cedar_ve': Exec format error" T.

Since it's an external driver, @Vincenzoernst1 you will still need to do all the process: Edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt to load the overlay user_overlays=tm16xx sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) # if it works, thats nice #if it doesn't you're cocked. Kernel module and display service Option 1: build and install in a single command Builds then installs module and service git clone https://github.com/jefflessard/tm16xx-display.git cd tm16xx-display make install Option 2: step by step commands make clean make module sudo make module-install sudo make service-install Check your display configuration display-service -c 3 phase display check Check that all leds are ON Check the order of digits and segment mapping (you should see "1234") Check each led name (ex: LAN icon is ON while "LAN" text is shown on the digits) I will include this section into a pull request: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; #include <dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h> #include <dt-bindings/leds/common.h> #include <dt-bindings/pinctrl/rockchip.h> &{/} { i2c-display { compatible = "i2c-gpio"; sda-gpios = <&gpio0 RK_PB4 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN)>; scl-gpios = <&gpio0 RK_PB3 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN)>; i2c-gpio,delay-us = <5>; #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; display@24 { compatible = "fdhisi,fd6551"; reg = <0x24>; digits { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; digit@0 { reg = <0>; segments = <1 3>, <1 1>, <1 2>, <1 6>, <1 4>, <1 5>, <1 0>; }; digit@1 { reg = <1>; segments = <2 3>, <2 1>, <2 2>, <2 6>, <2 4>, <2 5>, <2 0>; }; digit@2 { reg = <2>; segments = <3 3>, <3 1>, <3 2>, <3 6>, <3 4>, <3 5>, <3 0>; }; digit@3 { reg = <3>; segments = <4 3>, <4 1>, <4 2>, <4 6>, <4 4>, <4 5>, <4 0>; }; }; leds { #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <0>; led@0,0 { reg = <0 0>; function = LED_FUNCTION_ALARM; }; led@0,1 { reg = <0 1>; function = LED_FUNCTION_USB; }; led@0,3 { reg = <0 3>; function = "play"; }; led@0,2 { reg = <0 2>; function = "pause"; }; led@0,4 { reg = <0 4>; function = "colon"; }; led@0,5 { reg = <0 5>; function = LED_FUNCTION_LAN; }; led@0,6 { reg = <0 6>; function = LED_FUNCTION_WLAN; }; }; }; }; };

Hi @jock, Thanks a lot for your work on these RK322x boards. I have an MXQ Pro (RK3229, 2GB RAM / 16GB eMMC). I was able to boot Multitool from SD and successfully create a backup of the eMMC. However, when I burn an Armbian image to flash, the box doesn’t boot—LED blinks, but nothing shows up on HDMI. I’ve tried a few different images with the same result. Could you please guide me on how to debug this?

thanks for all the work you put in to this application. i've done this on most all of my systems and it was a bit tedious and fiddley. with just a few tweeks it ran through with no errors on my hc4 with bookworm. one question, why remove bash-completion and command-not-found packages?

Linux 6.1.31-sun50iw9 #1.0.4 SMP Wed Aug 6 19:06:53 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux I couldn't find any known kernel issues.

A crash in the Linux kernel's module loader is not really ZFS's fault, though, right? There's nothing about `resolve_symbol` that's part of ZFS.