SteeMan

Are you sure that the last batch was an Orange PI 3, not the new Orange PI 3 LTS - similar names but slightly different boards with different Armbian builds.

This isn't a valid issue for the following reasons:. First this report is not for an official Armbian build, second this is an issue in user space software (Ubuntu in this case) not an Armbian issue.

You need to use the Amlogic USB Burning Tool to install the original firmware. Google for examples on where to download and how to reinstall an android firmware on an Amlogic based TV Box.

Closing this very old thread. Feel free to open new posts for the older S805/S812 amlogic cpu based TV Boxes

@mcb777 Please note that posting such resources (i.e. the ophub build "amlogic-s9xxx-armbian" above) in this forum can be insulting towards Armbian developers since the developers behind ophub do not participate in the Armbian development effort nor these forums. In fact they use the Armbian name for their fork without permission. The concern being that users of these other code bases will turn to these forums for support not knowing the code they are running is not Armbian and burden our already scarce resources. I would ask you not to post such links in the Armbian forums in the future.

Here is the link for archived builds for the C1: https://archive.armbian.com/odroidc1/archive/

The short answer is if a board doesn't have anyone who has volunteered to be the maintainer for that board it is not longer support, until someone steps up to volunteer to be a maintainer. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/

The screenshot you included looks normal. You have a functioning command line terminal available to use. I'm assuming (since you don't say what image you have installed) that you have installed a command line image (non- desktop).

Moved posts to proper forum (Allwinner TV Boxes from Rockchip TV Boxes)

@Byzor Please follow the instructions in the following FAQ entry: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus The rest of the information in this thread should still be relevant.

@Mister 3o5 Please read the following TV box FAQ items: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/#comment-118794 https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus/ Also, the best advice I can give is to look at the following mega thread dealing with the s805 CPU and TV boxes, but note no one has really worked on these for a couple of years. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/3023-armbian-for-amlogic-s805-and-s802s812

@aKingabut Please read the two Tv box forum FAQ posts to understand the status of tv boxes under Armbian (short version don't expect any support and balbes150 has moved on from his working with amlogic CPUs) https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/#comment-118794 https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

@javaxsousa I don't see any comments above that indicate anyone is successful booting armbian onto a h96max h616 based box. I see a lot of posts about how things don't work and lots of people trying different patch sets, but I don't see anyone having success.

You have downloaded the server version (command line interface only). What you want is one of the downloads with *desktop* in the name, like: Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0_desktop.img.xz Note: there is no buster desktop version, only bullseye and focal desktops.

Moved post to the TV Boxes forums

Moved post to TV box forum. Armbian doesn't support TV Boxes. See the info on this FAQ post: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first Also note that this is a new soc by allwinner, and it often takes years for the open source world to support new socs. The h616 soc that came out a couple years ago is still not well supported. And I suspect that this new soc is a 32bit soc, which means it may never be well supported, as it seems most work these days is focussed on 64bit CPUs.

@b13 Please read the following TV Box FAQ post to understand the status of TV Boxes on armbian. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first Then feel free to search the archives for what others have experienced.

@Max Sterg If your box has a rockchip 3228 then you are in the wrong forum. This forum is for boxes with amlogic cpus. You should look at the following forum: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12656-csc-armbian-for-rk322x-tv-boxes The first post has the instructions on how to install on a rk3228 tv box.

@zchrish I would suggest starting with reading the Tv box forum faq items: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/#comment-118794 and https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus/#comment-140648

The .xz file is the image. The .sha file is the checksum. I think you should google and learn about the purpose and use of checksums, to understand what the .sha file is for.

What exactly do you mean by this? If you are looking to run the exact image you deploy to a SBC in a virtual environment, you can't really do that. If you are looking to run an armbian build that has the same linux kernel and user space environment as an SBC/TV Box build, that you should be able to do. A virtualized environment is really a specific virtualized set of hardware which will be different than the hardware for any specific SBC/TV Box. So the low level uboot and hardware environment (i.e. dtb files) will be different between the SBC build and the virtual environment build. But from that level up (kernel and user space) everything can be the same. Armbian has a build target for the QEMU environment (Virtual QEMU) and automated builds for that here: https://github.com/armbian/community/releases

@MBB I would recommend that reach out to @Igor via irc or discord for that discussion.

@MBB Are you working to get your patches submitted back to base Armbian? The reason I'm asking is given your current instructions (pull armbian source, apply your zip of patches) you will run into problems over time as the armbian codebase changes, since you aren't tied to a specific git commit or label. Also long term where do your end users turn for software support? Armbian certainly isn't setup to provide end user support for projects like this. Just wondering about how you envision long term support working as it relates to the armbian code you are building on top of.

Moved post to a new thread and edited the log files into spoiler sections

In the link provided above to the instructions, there are two desktop builds (the ones names *desktop*). bullseye is debian, focal is ubuntu.