That part of the instructions is clear. It's the steps involving the "wipe_part" file that supposedly erases partitions on the eMMC and the flashing of the second loader file that I can't make out. It looks like the instructions were edited to make them unusable. Nicolas has had the same issue in the H96 subforum with bad instructions and people asking for help due to the lack of clarity. I was able to make the board boot from SD card after flashing it with the YYT provided Debian 11 image, but only to Armbian Noble. No Debian distros work. When a Debian SD is inserted, the board boots then enters a systemd-devd shell with error messages about a UUID not being found. All Debian images do the same, I think it has to do with the eMMC memory not being seen because it is still formatted and not cleared. I have never seen a shell like this. Armbian Noble still boots properly, but only Noble. I need a Debian minimal distro in order to install OpenMediaVault and save my friend's files.

Greetings; I have downloaded this https://dl.armbian.com/cubox-i/Noble_current_server and verified that I got what I was supposed to (ASC, SHA). I have used a brand new usbimager to install it on various freshly formatted (brand new SD Formatter) and verified working Samsung Evo 32GB, SanDisk Extreme Plus 16GB, Extreme Plus 32GB. All the formatting, imaging and installation done on an Ubuntu 25.04 laptop. After usbimager is done, if I use the Ubuntu Disks application to look at the drive, the first partion shows as free space, which seems suspicious. When I insert the newly-set up SD cards in the Cubox-i4, I see the bootloader start and then do its handoff to the operating system... and then nothing. No more signal on the HDMI cable, nothing out on ssh, nothing. The Cubox-i4 tries to reboot every few minutes with no more successful outcome. This same Cubox-i4 runs fine with the last SD card system disk I built for it using the previous Debian server image. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Thank you @Igor. I downloaded and confirmed sha on Armbian_25.8.1_Tritium-h5_trixie_current_6.12.35_minimal.img.xz. I confirmed my card with F3 and used the SD Format tool to format my uSD card. I wrote the image to my uSD card. $ sudo unxz -c Armbian_25.8.1_Tritium-h5_trixie_current_6.12.35_minimal.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sde bs=1M oflag=direct conv=fsync status=progress iflag=fullblock I then mounted the newly written uSD card and changed the verbosity to 7 in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and added my .not_logged_in_yet and .rootfs_resize to the /root directory of the uSD card. First boot started out well, but 30 seconds in, it hung. I pulled the power after 30 minutes. Here's the log from my serial console: After pulling the plug and re-plugging it in, Armbian booted, but it took a long time. I know the board is not fast, but I went to lunch and came back to finally see the auto log in root prompt. I ran armbian-upgrade and rebooted. This time it was much faster to get to the log in prompt. I'd say this is solved with the new Armbian image, but the hang up at 30 seconds and pulling of power is not ideal. I'm not sure what else I can give you to debug that.

I don't know much, I enabled it as a test, but I like the overview, as I have my favorites easily run as soon as I log into gnome. Maybe we could do: download it to /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ and then run gnome-extensions enable no-overview@fthx. Here's a draft script that may be useful for the ones that want that: git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/fthx/no-overview.git NO_OVERVIEW=$(jq -r .uuid no-overview/metadata.json) mkdir -p /usr/share/gnome-shell/$NO_OVERVIEW gnome-extensions enable $NO_OVERVIEW Does that help?

Try with one additional parameter: EXTRAWIFI="no"