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@cad 435 No you aren't really missing anything. In the stable channel, kernel .debs generally only get pushed out every three months when a new stable release is put out (24.05 will be out the end of this month for example). If you want to get regular updates of kernels you need to switch to the nightly builds repository in armbian-config. Right now there is no in between.

That board is no longer a valid armbian board. It is EOS status (end of support). So there is no Armbian support and no community support for that board.

If you are running the community build you should be able to use the standard Armbian way: armbian-config

I thought you might be interested in the following PRs: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6120 https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6507 In Armbian 24.02 the default governor was changed to schedutil and recently it was changed back to ondemand. There is a lot of discussion about why in these two PRs.

@R Tech Moved your post to the correct thread.

Installing the uboot package shouldn't have any impact. In fact from my understanding installing the package just downloads the files. You need to run armbian-config to actually install the uboot files.

That looks correct for your current situation. What is the contents of your /boot directory? And the output from : apt list --installed | grep linux and apt list --installed | grep armbian (I.m used to using the apt command instead of the dpkg command)

What are the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list? I have seen it happen that the upgrade will prompt you to delete obsolete packages and will consider the armbian packages obsolete and remove your kernel (which obviously is a problem)

Looks like you have the vendor kernel package installed. If you want mainline kernel, then you need to install the current kernel package. Run armbian-config and see what it tells you are the available kernels for you. Now realize that going from vendor to mainline kernel you might loose some functionality (there is an FAQ item on this), but you can always switch back to vendor kernel if it is important.

Here is the most recent thread on s805:

There are is no Armbian support for s805 based tv boxes (only s905 based boxes).

@A J I'm not sure which image you have burned, but most images do not have a separate boot partition, they just have one ext4 partition that contains everything. Images that have a separate /boot partition do that either because of limitations of the u-boot version being used, or because they want to provide easier access to the /boot via a non linux platform (i.e. windows) for accessing the contents of that partition.

Yes dd will work

Armbian doesn't support TV boxes. Of the three major cpu families alwinner has the least support (practically no activity on alwinner). You can look at other threads in this forum discussing the h616.

Moved to correct forum

Because there really is no maintainer for this code. There has been a plan to rewrite it from scratch for a couple of years that hasn't moved very far either. So it just languishes, works sometimes and not others.

The minimal builds are really minimal. They don't include armbian config by default. You need to apt install armbian-config if you want it.

You didn't answer my questions? What build did you use and what instructions?

What build/download do you have installed? What instructions were you following? No TV box instructions say to use armbian-install.

This board is not a supported board. Moved post to Community Maintained section and added the correct tag for the board.

@mc510 It is still there: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/

You missed my point. You choose the edge kernel version of the trunk versions. There are also vendor kernel versions. The vendor kernel is going to be more stable than the edge kernel.

You are choosing to use the edge kernel, which is the 'bleeding edge" development work area, it is expected to be unstable. If you want fewer issues you shouldn't be using edge.

The world of open source is all about reverse engineering things where manufacturers don't want to invest in openness. That is why Armbian exists. But it takes a lot of effort. Here are a couple of threads that show how the process works and the time it takes to do what you want without support from the manufacturer: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/24091-efforts-to-develop-firmware-for-h96-max-v56-rk3566-4g32g https://forum.armbian.com/topic/28895-efforts-to-develop-firmware-for-h96-max-v56-rk3566-8g64g