SteeMan

If you have ever run coreelec on the box, you will not be able to install Armbian. The coreelec changes the boot environment on emmc in a way incompatible with Armbian. You will need to reinstall an original android firmware which will restore the boot environment if you want to install Armbian.

@mc510 You may know this but I'm adding this in case you or others reading this thread don't. This board isn't supported by Armbian. With limited resources Armbian can only support a limited number of boards with their resources. This board is a Community Maintained board, which means that it is up to the people in these forums to submit PRs to maintain and or improve support for this board. What often happens is that no one contributes back to the community and over time Community boards degrade in quality until they no longer build in which case they are set to end of life status. And removed. For the official description on Supported vs Community Maintained see: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/

Start by reading this: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first Note that especially for amlogic based CPUs this is really only good for server tasks. Don't expect a usable desktop replacement. Also if your box really has an s805 CPU, there really isn't any support for those older CPUs. But your box likely has an s905w CPU (at least many with that name do, but you really should open the box to make sure what you have as manufacturers change components all the time and use the same case) Finally if all that doesn't scare you away: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/33676-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

I can't explain what you are seeing, as everything appears in order. The only thing I'm going to suggest as a long shot, is that you are getting pointed to a mirror that for some reason isn't up to date (which shouldn't be the case). Since I don't know where you are located in the world, you could try to update your armbian.list file to point explicitly to a different mirror (list is available here: https://github.com/armbian/mirror) When I look at the mirror I get resolved to, I see the 24.2.1 packages in the bullseye repository. I don't understand why apt isn't finding them for you.

There are many posts on similar topics in the forums. The usual work around is to force the resolution via a kernel boot parameter. Search the forums for other such discussions.

I don't have this board personally, so I can only make educated guesses. The two things that caught my eye were the text "Hit any" which I assume should say Hit any key (it seems like some of the output is garbled). Such a message often has a timeout associated with it so you have some time to use the keyboard. The other thing I noticed is that your build is using uboot 2022.01, where current code is using uboot 2024.01. So you might want to build a current version and see if the newer uboot has any difference in behavior.

They aren't officially supported, but there are many TV boxes that are Community Maintained and available on the Armbian download page. No need to remove the binaries, your warnings are good enough.

Armbian does not support upgrades from one userspace to another (i.e Focal to jammy in your case). The recommendation is to reinstall and reapply your changes. Upgrades can sometimes work, but they are not tested nor supported.

Please do not promote forks of Armbian on these forums. If you what to help Armbian, please submit PRs and contribute code that makes Armbian better. It doesn't help to have yet another fork of stuff out there that never gets contributed back. Your warning about using external builds applies equally well to external git sources. No one should trust this unless they inspect all the changes you have made from genuine Armbian. User be warned.

I can't explain what you are seeing. Are the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list correct? Have you tried to use armbian-config to upgrade the kernel?

It means the /boot folder. There should be two partitions on the SD card, one formated as a fat filesystem and the other as an ext2 filesystem.

Be more specific? What packages are you looking for and what is your use case? I.e. why do you need them? Because without some really compelling reason, you should be upgrading to something supported by both Armbian for the Armbian parts and Debian or Ubuntu for those parts.

No there is not. But there hasn't been anything new released by Armbian for focal for a very long time.

Yes armbian-config has a section on selecting kernel versions as well as freezing kernel updates.

Havnig siad the above, I have noticed on other devices running the Armbian builds, that there can be issues with higher capacity sd cards. There are a lot of low quality cheap SD cards out there. I would suggest either investing in a high quality SD card or a lower capacity sd card.

Since you are not using Armbian but a fork of Armbian you need to direct your questions to their support channels. The authors of that fork do not support Armbian, they do not contribute to its development, nor do they participate in these forums.

@Antonio Ramos But the TX3 is based on a completely different CPU (AMlogix s905x3) than the TX1 (alwinner h313). So yes there is some community support behind the s905x cpu based boxes. But not currently any behind alwinner based boxes.

@Antonio Ramos There is no one I am aware of working on TV box support on allwinner CPUs. TV boxes are community supported. That means people like you need to step in and do the work to make what you are requesting happen.

Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

@chiefwigms As this board is in status community maintained, no Armbian resources are assigned to work on or support this board. Support/maintenance comes from the community. That means people like you submitting PRs to maintain/improve functionality. Without active community participation the board will langish and eventually be moved to end of support/end of life status.

@chiefwigms please submit a PR for this to get included into Armbian

@Adam Bresnay These forums are for Armbian. You would need to contact dietpi if you are not running Armbian. We can't help with dietpi issues.

@Adam Bresnay Run armbian-config and there is a submenu for selecting kernel versions.

@Sab44 please submit a PR with this change

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