Is this guide still relevant? Armbian-config has a completely different menu now

You are not using Armbian. Ophub is a fork of Armbian. They do not contribute to Armbian development nor do they participate in these forums. You need to go to ophub to ask this question, as no one here can help you.

What is in armbianEnv.txt then? Anyway you need to load and edit it such that you make sure loglevel=7 Then there will be more text after Starting kernel ... You also seem to have a power and/or reliability problem w.r.t. cables as characters are missing in your debug log text.

High chance this uses some proprietary hardware for 3.5mm audio jack. It has been like that for decades and you probably need to find some firmware blob somewhere maybe. I have also a similar situation, most part s of the computer work fine with Debian Trixie etc, but it took ages to get sound working and still buggy, endless beep or crash occasionally. If you are lucky is it maybe only a mute setting or so, use aumix etc to look what is going on. Not something Armbian specific I guess, but up to you to figure out. Then also mention various versions, what BIOS/UEFI version the computer is loaded with, what Armbian kernel and also specific image release (if it is an unmodified image writer based installation).

I recently got this tv box emulator thing but i now emulate games on my laptop for convineince. I decide to download armbian on the tv box so that i can set up pi-hole for network wide ad blocking. Ive tried multiple times but i cant see to get it working. Cpu: Amologic S905L Ram:2 gig DDr3 ive been downloading this version https://github.com/ophub/amlogic-s9xxx-armbian/releases/download/Armbian_jammy_arm64_server_2026.02/Armbian_26.02.0_amlogic_s905l_jammy_6.1.161_server_2026.02.02.img.gz been using this dtb meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb been using this u bootfile named: u-boot-s905x-s912 To reboot the system there is no button in the AV port and the box refuses to download any apk or app for terminal emulator, Developer tools are not available,threfore i prefer to do it through the update method. the file structure Ive been following these instructions from gemini https://gemini.google.com/share/1e335432197f https://gemini.google.com/share/0a6ce8a19d0c Please ask me if you need more info I also asked in reddit btw