The boot partition presence doesn't depend directly on the Armbian version—it's determined by the board configuration. Some configs enable an extra boot partition, especially for boards using older U-Boot versions that can't boot directly from ext4. As a result, even for the same board and Armbian version, different branches (e.g., legacy, vendor, current, edge) may behave differently. Vendor branch might use an old BSP U-Boot requiring the extra partition while mainline branch uses newer U-Boot that boots straight from ext4.

would you mind sending a pr or even upstream this change?

Armbian 25.11.2 Noble XFCE (BSP Kernel: 6.1.115) + PanVk - mesa 26.0 (https://launchpad.net/~ernstp/+archive/ubuntu/mesaaco) + Box64 arm64 v0.4.1 2eb2fd9cd (https://ryanfortner.github.io/box64-debs/) + proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64 (https://github.com/Kron4ek/Wine-Builds/releases/download/proton-10.0-3/wine-proton-10.0-3-amd64-wow64.tar.xz) + dgVoodoo2 (https://github.com/dege-diosg/dgVoodoo2/releases) + DXVK-stripped v2.4.1 30~60fps@720p (medium settings) box64 environment variables: Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY

Now I have restarted the install with a 64G u-card, and it is totally different. it only took 1 pass at networkmanager to make all the local network work in that I can ssh gene@any-local-machine and bavk again. But now I cannot get thru the router for its dnsmasq server. All addresses in the network setup are checked and correct. The hostname has been reset to its normal, e5p, has been used for 3 or 4 years but the Network is unreachable because the router isn't functioning as a dns lookup. Its even been rebooted a couple times. New faster router about 4 months back with dd-wrt in it. ip a: end0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 2a:b6:6c:1a:3a:1f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.71.122/24 brd 192.168.71.255 scope global noprefixroute end0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::28b6:6cff:fe1a:3a1f/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever ip r: 192.168.71.0/24 dev end0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.71.122 metric 100 192.168.71.0/24 via 192.168.71.1 dev end0 proto static metric 200 /etc/netplan/armbian.yaml: root@e5p:/etc/netplan# cat armbian.yaml network: version: 2 renderer: NetworkManager ethernets: end0: addresses: - "192.168.71.122/24" nameservers: addresses: - 192.168.71.1 dhcp4: false dhcp6: false macaddress: "2a:b6:6c:1a:3a:1f" routes: - metric: 200 to: "192.168.71.1/24" via: "192.168.71.1" Can anyone see what is wrong with that? Thanks.

Hello everyone, I hope I'm in the right place. So I got an H50 tv box (T98) that I found lying around, and installed via the multitool everything including armbian itself, which works properly. The issue that I have is that I had to do all via ssh and haven't been able to get any HDMI output, tried updating lightdm, switching it to sleek, and at this point idk what else to do. Thank you in advance!