[The list of models that are running Armbian (Amlogic, Rockchip, Allwinner etc)]

H96 Max X2 (with S905X2 cpu) 4GB Ram ad 32GB Emmc

 

I purchased this box thinking I was getting an X96 Max (the naming of all these different boxes is very confusing).  But it turns out that it works well with current builds of balbes150's Armbian.  It works with the meson-g12a-x96-max-rmii.dtb.  It works well installed to eMMC.  The wifi does not work, and I haven't tried bluetooth or hdmi audio.

[Armbian for Amlogic S9xxx kernel 5.x]

3 hours ago, Reddwarf said:

I would appreciate some tip about what and where to look. I have done exactly as described, not changed any config and still it does not work.

I did a build last night of Armbian_5.91_Aml-s905_Ubuntu_disco_default_5.2.0.img without any problems.  So it isn't that case that as you said "the script for building Armbial is obviously useless," because it works fine for me.  So there is something in your environment that is causing a failure as balbes150 stated.  Have you tried building on a different host?

[Armbian for Amlogic S9xxx kernel 5.x]

22 hours ago, trulyliu said:

I have installed 5.80 on EMMC,  how can I update it to the latest version without reinstall?

You will need to build the .deb files from source in order to upgrade.  I have been doing this for the last couple of months and things seem stable enough for this work fairly smoothly.  You will need to use the build environment fork from balbes150's git repository (https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian).  It is quite simple to do a build from source if you have an intel based machine running Ubuntu18.04.  (Note there is one mistake in the instructions, when is says to "cd build" after "git clone https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian", it should say "cd Build-Armbian")

Once you have built the .debs you can use apt to upgrade them in your installation.  Look at what packages you have installed and upgrade to the newer versions you have built.

I would recommend doing a image backup before you attempt the upgrade until you are comfortable with the process.  To make a backup, burn an Armbian image to SD or USB, boot from it and run the 'ddbr' command to backup the eMMC. Then you will have a backup image to restore from if something goes wrong during an upgrade.

 

[Armbian for Amlogic S9xxx kernel 5.x]

19 hours ago, anonymox said:

Hey, I'm using TX3 mini type A (2019 edition - new hardware). I can't install Armbian to eMMC

I think you have run into the same issue I recently did.  I have purchased four TX3 mini boxes (2G/16G) over time from different vendors.  Two of the boxes work perfectly (i.e. I can install to the built in eMMC.  However on the other two boxes, I can not.  The two boxes that can't install to eMMC, do work in all other ways.  So I can run armbian from the SD card if I want.

 

In attempting to diagnose the problem, I noticed that the kernel wasn't detecting the internal storage at boot time.  So I opened up the cases of a box that worked and a box that didn't and discovered a difference.  The two boxes have different storage chips (the chips are actually located in different locations on the board as well).  In googling the part markings on the chips, it appears that the box that works correctly has an eMMC memory chip installed, and the box that doesn't has a NAND chip installed.  I recall reading somewhere that there isn't currently support in these kernels for nand storage.  So it would seem that some manufacturers in order to cut costs are installing nand storage on some of the TX3 mini's.  I don't know how to tell at ordering time, what type of storage might be used and therefore I no longer am purchasing the TX3 mini's for my purposes.  I really like the boxes and if I could be assured of getting boxes with eMMC I would use them for a number of projects.