SteeMan

Please look at the following two FAQ items: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

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That makes sense, you at telling the kernel which display settings to use, instead of trying to discover the correct settings for the attached monitor. I'm curious how you figured this out? Is there some reference you used, that you could link here for others to read more about how/why this works?

That could be the problem. These old boxes generally were designed in an era when 16 to 32GB was the common/max. I personally wouldn't use a 128GB card.

Can you try the other SD card with the adb command?

OK now I understand. It is common to have incompatibilities between older TV boxes and SD cards. You also said you: Which sd card was that with? Obviously if the box can't read the one card, nothing is going to work with that card.

That is yo be expected. As I said earlier: You would need to create the empty aml_autoscript.zip file on this build manually.

What do you mean by "TV Box doesn't recognize the SD card"? How is it different from before?

Another way of triggering the running of the aml_autoscript file is to issue a 'adb reboot update' command through adb.

The current builds do not even include the aml_autoscript.zip file because it is rarely needed. There is nothing special about this file it is a zero byte dummy file, that is supposed to trigger the loading of the aml_autoscript file via some update apps.

There are different types of update apps, so when you run the update app on the old 5.9.0 build do you see the same interface as this how to article shows?

From the picture your box is a rebranded m8s pro+, as indicated by the board markings. In googling I have found the following like that shows someone being successful at installing Armbian (http://www.galipe.net/guide-mecool-m8sproplus-armbian/). (article in French, I used Google translate) So it should be possible. While those instructions are old, they show that it should work.

While unlikely, it could be on the other side of the motherboard.

Have you opened the case and looked for one?

I don't know if this is possible or not since I don't know anything about what Batocera is. Unless Batocera uses the same booting process as Armbian, it is unlikely.

@remolaan If your box has the s805x cpu (not s805 as your title indicates), you might have success following these instructions: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus Using the meson-gxl-s805x-p241.dtb or meson-gxl-s805x-libretech-ac.dtb and the u-boot-s905x-s912 uboot file I'm not aware on anyone having ever tried this, but it might work.

@Ulltrium That version is multiple years old. I don't think there is anyone around the forums that can provide help on that old of a version.

@Cesar Inacio Martins Have you tried to use armbian-config to configure your networking? From the armbianmonitor output it appears you have valid eth0 and wlan0 interfaces.

@w114514 What box do you have? What image are you using?

What do you mean by this? There is no output at all, or no output after boot? What image are you using? Have you tried different hdmi monitors and different hdmi cables?

@Juan Arias You have not provided any useful information about your problem. Lets start with, what box do you have? What image are you using? What instructions are you following? What steps have you done in preparing your sd card for booting the box? What dtb/uboot are you using? What errors/messages are you getting?

In looking at past threads on this box, I would suggest trying other dtb files (if your box is s905x, try all the meson-gxl-s905x-* )

Why?

@Igor Per this post, it looks like there is a corrupted stable build.

Welcome to Armbian. I would suggest you read: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first and https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus As for your question, I would recommend using a stable build not a development build. Also if that doesn't work, try a server (CLI) build. I've been seeing reports in the forums about hdmi not working across different builds when running desktop builds.