[Boot from USB having Armbian on eMMC]

The Armbian and CoreElec systems have different and conflicting booting scripts.  When you enable multiboot (the toothpick) you are storing the uboot environment script on emmc and this then gets used for future boots for all media (emmc, sd, usb).  So you can't just install various different OSs and expect them to work as they all depend on the uboot environment stored on emmc for the system to know how to boot them.  Basically you can't do what you are attempting to do on an amlogic based box.  In fact due to the incompatabilities between CoreElec and Armbian, it is required that if you install/attempt to install CE, that you will need to restore your box to an original android firmware in order to get it back into a state that Armbian will again work on it.

 

[X96 mini not boot armbian corectly]

Can you attach the file instead of cutting and pasting the contents.  I am looking at the lines in your screen capture that say:

Ignoring unknown command:

Ignoring unknown command:

Ignoring unknown command:

Ignoring unknown command:

Ignoring unknown command: FDT

Ignoring unknown command: APPEND

 

It seems as if it is ignoring all the lines of your extlinux.conf file.  Is there anything you see that looks unusual?  Did you edit the file on a windows machine (perhaps windows CR/LF characters) - just making a guess.

 

[X96 mini not boot armbian corectly]

Can you post your extlinux.conf file?  Based on the screen shot, errors are being reported when reading the conf file

[Cards on the table: Which boxes have working WiFi?]

4 hours ago, balbes150 said:

(ssv6051 or ssv6252

Adding to what balbes150 said, there is no support of these chips in mainline modern kernels.  Obviously there is support (poor if you look at the source code) in legacy kernels and therefore Android.  But the focus of Armbian is mainline and therefore from the perspective of Armbian, these chips are completely unsupported and really unsupportable.

[Armbian on CloudnetGo CR19 RK3399 TV Box]

@xoodoo  Please read the following FAQ post:  https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

 

While the above posted thread on rk3399 support will give you information on the status of the rk3399, the latest balbes150 build with rk3399 support can be found here: https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/

 

I installed and ran the above build on a Magicsee M6 Max rk3399 box.  I don't know about the box you linked to above, but you can try the different u-boots and dtb files and you may find something that will work for you.

[X88 Pro 20 (RK3566) Set top box]

moved to the TV Box's forum

[Cards on the table: Which boxes have working WiFi?]

moved to TV Boxes club forum

[armbian or any other linux distro on ebox r99 (RK3399)!]

@giga What armbian tv box builds have you tried?  What instructions have you tried? What dtb's have you tried?  I don't have this box but have armbian running on a different rk3399 based box.

[X96 mini not boot armbian corectly]

@Arek Rybak I would recommend that you read the two TV Box FAQ posts:

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

 

What dtb's have you tried.  On my x96 mini boxes I am using /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtb

 

[CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards]

@RetroFan90  you are getting that message because of what the message is saying: WSL is not a supported build environment.  If you want to do a build on windows you will need to do it inside a VM like VirtualBox.  The supported build environments are discussed in the documentation on the website.

[CSC Armbian for RK3318/RK3328 TV box boards]

@Jason Duhamell  Please don't post large files inline.  Use the "Spoiler" feature to hide long attachments (the icon that looks like an eyeball).  It makes it much easier to read these threads without having to scroll through large files.

[Allwinner H6]

14 hours ago, fatbill27 said:

something wrong when i install in emmc

https://imgur.com/a/JbUTAmI

Please describe your problem and what you have done.  Also, I can't see the linked image, please attach any relevant images as an attachment to your post.

[Allwinner H6]

@Crypto_Dino. Also, the instructions you linked to are at least two years old. Many items listed there have changed.  For example the uenv.txt file is no longer used and instead the boot process uses the standard extlinux.conf file.

Unfortunately I don't have much familiarity with H6 based tv boxes so I'm not able to provide a set of directions for you.

[Allwinner H6]

@Crypto_Dino if I recall correctly balbes has moved to using ext3 files systems for his builds.  So you will need something that can read a ext3/linux file system in order to see the contents of the image on your sd card

[Allwinner H6]

@Crypto_Dino I'm not sure which instructions you are following, but you aren't using the correct latest builds for the h6, nor following instructions correctly.  The latest builds by balbes150 for the Allwinner H6 are located here:  https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/aw-h6-tv/

As for instructions you mention renaming files to u-boot.ext.  That is an instruction for Amlogic CPUs not the Allwinner H6.

[Help needed with S905X3 Ninkbox N8 plus]

Also, dtd files are kernel/kernel version specific,. You can't assume a dtb from a vendor kernel will work on a mainline kernel.

[Help needed with S905X3 Ninkbox N8 plus]

You say you have followed the instructions.  Have you explicitly followed this note from the instructions:. Note2: If you have previously run other distributions on the box such as coreelec the below installation will not work. You will need to restore the original android firmware before attemping the install. coreelec changes the boot environment in ways that are incompatible with these armbian builds.

[Beelink GT1 Mini TV Box - DTB file?]

@RicardoSA What instructions are you following?  No current instructions have a step that requires you to copy any file to root.  Look at the instructions in the FAQ section of the TV box forum.

[Help needed with S905X3 Ninkbox N8 plus]

Moved your post to the appropriate forum.

 

Please read the TV Box forum 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

 

[Allwinner H6]

While there are other differences, based on what you have described the biggest difference for you is that the "arm-64" builds are no longer maintained.  Those builds from October 2020 are the last that will be made.  Whereas the "aw-h6-tv" builds are being currently maintained by balbes150 and are current with the latest kernel patch releases.

[T95Z max, just cant get ethernet started and dont know how to write OS to emmc]

@extremeaudio  both of your questions are answered by the FAQ posts in the TV Box forums:  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

 

[H96 Mini v8... cute box but no wifi for me]

Moved post to the correct location in the TV Boxes forum

[Mov Z69 Amlogic s905x can't get Linux running ?.]

@Tanmay Saha You didn't indicate what build you were using or what steps you were using.  I would recommend starting with the TV box FAQ:  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

 

[Rupa Pyramid A5x - Android TV Box HDMI sound missing.]

moved topic to the proper forum

[Can anyone explains what are the steps for making a TV box works with armbian?]

@supersmurfs Since above you state that your box is an Allwinner H616 box, the following thread is tracking the base Armbian development for supporting the H616 cpu.  While support is progressing, it is a way from being stable/supported.