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Hi, I have exactly the same box (minix x8h-plus) and in past I was able to use armbian image with 3.10 kernel (with desktop), but was unable to use docker that was my main purpose (kernel 3.10 is to old to run docker). I've tried to run a more recent kernel build as per the advice of @ntux user but without success and give I up. I've decided now to give another try (use Armbian + docker) and yesterday using the 5.78 with 5.1 kernel I've successfully manage to boot the box. Didn't make to tests but it boot and ethernet is working with no issue. Please note that is working headless, meaning no hdmi output, I'm connecting via ssh (I look fo the IP on a app installed in my phone that scans the lan). I’m using the out of the box dtb, that from top of my mind I think mxiii (I made no changes to uenv.ini) My goal is to run docker with several server services so I'm now testing to build kernel with the required flags. I'm following @ntux user guide posted on this thread march 7 2019. To be continued … I have one question thus, I want that the built kernel includes the standard dvb drivers. I have a usb tuner that is supported since 4.16 kernel. Can anyone guide me on what flags should I use on .config file?

Hi, Many thanks @ntux! I tried again to boot using Armbian with Kernel 4.x and 5.0 but with no luck, the Minix doesn't boot. I think I have the Minix X8h+ gen1 version, not sure if is because of the hw version. Anyway I decided to give a try using the kernel 3.10. I've sucessfully build the kernel and manage to solve part of dependecies pointed by the docker depencies script, playing with .config. But I was not able to solve all of them, I didn't found some of dependencies to activate on the .config file. I've tried to add them manually with no luck. Meanwhile I runned out of time... Any sugestion are welcome :).

Hi, Many thanks @ntux for your answer and sharing. Exactly the feedback I was looking for! I will try to build the kernel with the required flags. One additional question, your are running Armbian on SDcard, USB or internal? Kind regards,

Hi, First of all many thanks for this work @balbes150!! I've give this OS a try on my minix x8h-plus (S812) this weekend and worked out of the box and is great! To give this box a 2nd life I was trying to install docker on it using the Armbian 5.73 image, but so far I've been unable to do it. I've tried a couple of methods I've found on internet with no success, docker is unable to start. Running the command "journalctl" the issue I've found with docker is related with cgroup, please see below. I've found some possible causes and solutions on google that I've tried to implement but without success. I've also saw some comments saying that this is only solved by changing kernel. Can anyone share is experience with Docker on this OS/Kernel/HW? Are you able to run it? if is possible to run on it, this means that the issue is the usual one = me , and I will keep looking and trying. As a side note I've also tried Armbian with Kernel 4.20 and 5.0 available on repository (using meson8m2-mxiii-plus.dtb) but Minix did not boot, got stuck on minix logo screen. -- Unit docker.service has begun starting up. Feb 18 13:45:27 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:27.333966089Z" level=info msg="libcontainerd: new containerd process, pid: 5687" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.402673425Z" level=info msg="[graphdriver] using prior storage driver: overlay" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.419603143Z" level=info msg="Graph migration to content-addressability took 0.00 seconds" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420095164Z" level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support cgroup memory limit" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420187168Z" level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support cgroup cfs period" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420237170Z" level=warning msg="Your kernel does not support cgroup cfs quotas" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420292173Z" level=warning msg="Unable to find blkio cgroup in mounts" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420322174Z" level=warning msg="Unable to find cpuset cgroup in mounts" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: time="2019-02-18T13:45:28.420462180Z" level=warning msg="mountpoint for pids not found" Feb 18 13:45:28 aml dockerd[5681]: Error starting daemon: Devices cgroup isn't mounted Feb 18 13:45:28 aml systemd[1]: docker.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 18 13:45:28 aml systemd[1]: Failed to start Docker Application Container Engine. -- Subject: Unit docker.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- Unit docker.service has failed.