HI @ning, I currently are trying to load armbian to my magicbox-16s as well I did read through multiple article and it couldn't worked to boot from usb ( it will keep boot into YunOS). Could you help to guide me through on this? Thanks~

I swapped OpenSSH server for Dropbear. Soooo much faster on this unit. Very noticeable. Easy to do on a headless install, just setup Dropbear on a different port than the default, reboot, sign in with that different port, disable & uninstall OpenSSH.

Seems like I got some progress/regress with the board - I added some extra arguments in the armbianEnv.txt file - verbosity=7 and extraargs debug to try and see what the reason for the freeze might be and these three jobs were stuck, resulting in a kernel panic (end Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_On_set_idle_set) - systemd-udev-trigger.service/start, dev-ttyFIQ0.device/start and systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service/start. Tried disabling the FIQ0 node in the dts (at least I think so), but the UART just stopped and it hanged again (the Armsom Sige 5 also has this in its dt). Managed to get a few times in initramfs, but it wans't helping me in the slightest. When adding init=/bin/bash, I could also avoid the hang, but it wasn't that productive.

There is a write-up about this: https://zuckerbude.org/armbian-using-kernel-config/ Check the tl;dr: part.

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