Goodboy13

Thank you very much for your support and patience. I would rather try to do your first option, install your next version come with 4.20 kernel. But I have no idea what keyword I need to search with to get to the page that mentions how to install system on S9xxx. Can you give me the direct link or some tips/steps that I can use to follow up? Moreover, is there any chance that we can re compile your source to boot from eMMC and pack it to img file( with all uboot, fs, dtb and everything) then flash it like a normal android image via usb download tool?

I failed to re-pack android image file after resize data and system partition. That program unexpectedly closed with no error message or anything. Is there any way to install armbian directly to eMMC without installing android first? or at least, flash it to a fully formatted eMMC( like using dd or similar commands).

There is a tool named "Amlogic Customization Tool" and I usually use it to customize Android image before flash it into my box. It also supports edit DTS and recomplie it back to DTB file. Here is the code that I got from the tool. --> https://pastebin.com/danMZZ9K and the dtb file generated below. How and which partitions should I merge together? As I see from boot log, the last 3 partitions would be "boot - system - data". Thank you very much. I've tried to boot your armbian with that dtb file but it got stuck and stopped booting. meson8b_m201_1G.dtb

I was able to create a backup of eMMC by ddbr command as below. And here is the armbian startup log captured via UART --> https://pastebin.com/8E73PNPz And here is the partitions output I've tried to follow some tut but no luck yet. still looking for the way around.

My variant contains a sandisk SDIN7DP2-4G and from what I found on the internet, it is eMMC. I also have UART console access( that I used to command uboot to boot from USB, TFTP). Can you tell me what do I have to study/ prepare to make it boot from my eMMC? Just show me the main points, the way I have to follow and then I will try to do it myself. I am thinking about re-complie your source like the tutorial below and then flash it via USB flashing tool. Is it the right way? Thank you. https://forum.khadas.com/t/how-to-debian-stretch-linux-4-9-from-scratch-w-download-emmc-only/806

Thank you so much for your effort and contribute. Thank to you, I now able to run armbian on my old, laggy S805 android box with just only 1G ram and 4G MMC. Unfortunately, whenever I try to transfer installation from USB to MMC( with Android preinstalled), it said "not enough of memory" - may be because of my only 4G MMC . Do you have any tips/ideas to flash armbian to MMC?( I dont need android at all). I've thought of resize android partitions( extend /data partition) or build my own image file then flash it by USB Flashing Tool but haven't done it yet. I just wanted to know that it's possible to install your image to a 4G memory space. Thank you.