SteeMan

TV Boxes are not supported by armbian. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first Note that the h618 is a new allwinner cpu. It often takes years for the open source community to bring mainline linux support to new cpus. The h616 which is now about two years old is still not well supported.

Also, since you are getting to the point in the boot process where the u-boot.ext is running, you should be able to use the keyboard and run u-boot command line commands

As the instructions say you need to try *all* dtbs of a given type to find the one that best matches your hardware. P200 is just the reference board designation, it is nothing special. All of the gxbb dtbs are essentially p200 variants. There are 10s if not 100s of different boards using the s905, each with unique hardware, each requiring a different dtd that matches that hardware. But the vast majority of boards do not have matching mainline kernel dtb. So we try the ones that do exist and hopefully one works good enough (but it is highly unlikely that it will work well - which is why in the FAQ it says not to expect things like wifi and Bluetooth to work at all)

These all show that you are not using a compatible dtb for the box. Try other s905 dtbs.

Correct

Try installing the armbian-firmware-full package

I tried to already answer that question, but perhaps I wasn't specific enough: You need to place the custom dtb outside the /boot/dtb directory in /boot directly. Then you extlinux.conf reference would look like: FDT /<custom file>.dtb

If you are going to use a custom dtb you need to put it in the /boot directory and make the extlinux.conf point to it there. The contents of /boot/dtb are kernel version specific and when the kernel is upgraded they are replaced with newer versions. The whole directory is replaced so any customizations you place in there will be lost.

@VN-HCM_dung Here is what you would need to do. 1) perform a new clean install on the new tv box on the emmc. This will create the partitions in the correct location, preserving the android uboot environment. 2) Assuming that you have the same linux kernel installed on the old and new boxes, you can simply replace the contents of the root partition (you don't need to touch the boot partition /boot) with those from your original box. You can use /root/install-aml.sh as a guide on what needs to be copied over. (If you have a different kernel version then you also need to preserve /lib/modules/(your kernel version) on the root partition.

You are not using armbian. You are using a build from a site that is a fork of armbian and uses the armbian name without permission. You need to ask your questions at the site you downloaded your software from since we can't help you here.

The output from running install-aml.sh

What build are you using and where did you download from. Given what you have stated, it doesn't appear that you are using armbian.

One other comment is have you tried to conned via ssh? And have you tried to install a server/cli build, to see if the basic system is working.

That list of dtbs you provided are not from official builds. I don't know what code you are using and therefore can't provide help. But the s905x3 would use a meson-sm1-* dtb.

What box do you have, and what download do you have installed?

I believe the driver for this is already in the Armbian builds with the exception of the meson64-edge kerne, and I think that is an oversight and I have a question in to confirm.

Also going back to a very basic question. What do you intend to use the TV box for? Why do you even want to use the desktop version?

One thought I have for you to try is to go back to the clu version, and use armbian-config to install/enable desktop support on it.

I am on vacation this week. So I can't really offer much support as I don't have access to my boxes to test any suggestions.

So you were successful with the cli build, but the xfce build isn't booting?

Can you help even a little bit. How about you start with telling what you have done? Give context to the screen shot. Showing a random screen shot is of no help. List the exact steps you have done, and what you are trying to do. Also you need to answer my questions when I ask, if you want help. You still haven't answered the question I asked if you have successfully tested running the desktop build from the SD card? Because you were able to run the cli version from sd only based on prior reports. I've taken hours of my time to help you. You need to try harder to make it easier to help you.

Yes

Also have you tried installing the desktop build on emmc? It should work. You shouldn't care what size it takes on the SD card, as that doesn't impact how it is installed on emmc. Most of the space on the SD card is unused empty space.

Have you run the desktop version from SD card? No reason to worry about emmc install if the performance isn't going to meet your needs. I personally find the performance on most TV boxes to be too slow for real use desktop use. They in my opinion are best for usage as servers.

What build did you download from the armbian servers? I assume you are looking for a desktop build, it looks like you installed a server/command line build.