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My first thought is that you don't actually have emmc in your box. You don't provide any details, so I am just guessing. I have 'identical' TX3 Mini boxes that on one the emmc works fine and the other it is not detected. When I opened the box, it turned out the manufacturer installed cheaper nand instead of the claimed emmc. And mainline kernels don't support nand storage. It is very common that boxes may not contain the components claimed (or can change randomly over time in an effort to cut production costs). This is one of many reasons TV boxes aren't supported by Armbian. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first/

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@brusli Also given that the archived builds @s-petersen linked to are over 3 years old, I'm not sure they are something you would want to use anyway (even if you trust a random third party download site). Three year old builds equal three years of unpatched security vulnerabilities.

@hadestlse It is assumed that you have the knowledge and skills to build linux kernels and apply patches if you are going to attempt to do that. If not then I wouldn't recommend trying to incorporate the patch @hexdump referenced above. Not knowing your level of developer knowledge, I would first point you towards the Armbian developer docs. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

Please start by reading the two TV Box FAQ posts: 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

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Moved post to the correct forum. Please read: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first The build you are using is over 2 and a half years old. Please read: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus (Note that you may need to change the extlinux.conf file to read: "LINUX /uImage" , I am investigating an issue, but I haven't yet confirmed it on an s905x3 box like yours).

@vcmsptx Also, there is no meson-g12a-gt1-mini-a dtb file in these builds. Where did you get that? And are you sure you put it in the correct location? Also are you sure that dtb file is compatible with a mainline kernel?

@vcmsptx with the new builds (i.e. the 6.0.x kernels) try changing the extlinux.conf file to use: LINUX /uImage I noticed an issue that the u-boot currently packaged (u-boot-s905x2-s922) doesn't boot the Image binary but will boot the uImage kernal binary. At least this is the case on my s905x2 based box. If you can confirm this same behavior on your box, that would be helpful.

@vcmsptx What build and instructions are you using?

The first place to start is with the following two 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

The first place to start is with the following two 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

Please read the following FAQ post: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first (Short answer is: don't expect wifi to work on TV Boxes)

As an unsupported board, the 4C+ only exists on the Community Supported boards page: https://github.com/armbian/community

@Cliff There is no official Armbian software for this box as this is not a supported box by Armbian. If I may ask, where did you get this 'official' armbian from? The only reason I ask, is if there is something that leads people to believe something is supported when it isn't, that is an area that we can improve docs/website, etc to avoid future confusion.

Correct. This if from the Inovato website: IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have any questions or problems with this process, by all means use the Armbian Forums to search for information, but please DO NOT ask questions if you can't find your answer. They don't support the Quadra firmware: We do. So please use the Support category on this forum.

@Titus The software you have installed is not from Armbian. That developer has a fork of Armbian but does not participate in Armbian development nor these forums. In fact they use the Armbian name without permission. You will need to contact the developer who provided this software to you for your questions/support.

Please provide more information, I can't guess as to what you are doing/seeing. That is what is supposed to happen. Pressing the reset button during boot will cause the board to load the multiboot setup from an sd card. This is something you should only need to do once. You mention usb, do you mean sd card? What happens after you release the reset button?

Read the TV Box FAQ items on this forum: 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

@wapins The build you are using is a fork of Armbian. That developer has no association with armbian and does not interact with armbian developers or these forums. They use the armbian name without permission. You need to post your question in their forums as we can't help you here.

Lets start by explaining what build you are using? What installation instructions are you following? What dtb are you trying?

You don't provide any specific details on what you have installed. Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

After a fix committed this past week, these builds now work on all the amlogic based boxes I have: TX3mini (s905w) X96mini (s905w) H96MaxX2 (s905x2) TX3 (s905x3)

@jiapei100 I think you are confusing cpu support and board support. While the rk3229 cpu has good support in modern linux kernels (good but not perfect yet) there is no support for your specific board. It is very different work to support the cpu than support a specific board using that cpu. It can take months of development effort to get a board to work well after the kernel supports the cpu. Board support entails support for all the other hardware on the board (memory chips, networking/wifi and whatever else may be on the board). That involves both making sure that the proper drivers are available for the hardware (often since there is generally no help from the board manufacturer, it is a guessing game to reverse engineer the hardware and try to find source code for the hardware componentes) and that the dtb file is created for that specific hardware. The dtb is the mapping between the hardware and the linux kernel. Generally to work well you will need a dtb specific to your board. And then finally all of this work also needs to be done with the u-boot code to again get the hardware mapped correctly so the device can boot. As jock stated you should read the armbian development documentation to understand what armbian is. For example your final question about which config file to use, doesn't make sense if you understand the armbian build system. 'current', 'edge' and 'legacy' are labels for specific kernel versions - legacy generally is the original 4.x kernel released by the manufacturer, current is the current stable version (i.e. 5.15), and edge is the bleeding edge development kernel (i.e 6.x).