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@samircobra these TV BOXes with Rockship are very robust and well documented here in Armbian. Once, I even caused a short circuit (a true hard-reset) in its memory system, and the board reverted to its original ROM. Regarding your question, follow the instructions for the classic Rockchip devices on the main Armbian page. The steps described there are detailed and clear. Good Luck

Flashing under Linux you will have many options to do it and check some problems on partitions etc. Normally, I use the Balena Etcher and dd by console.

I have a ssh connection with my TV BOX (it is a AMLOGIC with S912), in my etc/ssh/sshd_config I have "UsePAM yes" and without any delay for connection, and probably it was not the problem of your delay in the start connection. In addition, I installed a vnc service to work remotely using the graphical interface. Either ssh and vnc Viewer (xtightvncviewer in my Debian Desktop) run pretty well. Please, check your basic network services, as well, fix the IP in the TV BOX. In my case I did some adjusts such: cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.15.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.15.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 1.1.1.1 There are some network services that can be impling in your delay by ssh (it is robust, old and fast application of Linux) I hope to help you too.

Thanks for sharing your installation. Really, the Rockship in TV BOX seems the easier Armbian installations that I already tested, although, I use a TVBOX with ab AMLOGIC S912.

Hi I think that a boot on this TV box it should be not so hard, I never tested an Allwiner. Please, start reading some advices from this post from 2023: once that h313, probably follows at the same procedure of the H61X ... I hope to help you ccs

Hi everyone, Please, someone knows to inform if this thread is open yet? I am resuming to Armbian after almost 4 years. I have a TV BOX model T95Z Plus (RUPA Diamond S912) running for a long time ... but with a kernel 5.9. Yesterday, I follow the steps described in : I upgraded all the packages to Brookworm, but no the kernel. # apt dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. AND # cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.2 bookworm" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.armbian.com" SUPPORT_URL="https://forum.armbian.com" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://www.armbian.com/bugs" ARMBIAN_PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 25.5.2 bookworm" BUT the problem is here: echo "$(grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/os-release | cut -d= -f2-) | Kernel: $(uname -r)" "Armbian 25.5.2 bookworm" "Armbian 25.5.2 bookworm" | Kernel: 5.9.0-arm-64 So, I am afraid about how to choose the right kernel once that they are not supported anymore by @balbes150 To get a kernel from here https://www.armbian.com/amlogic-s9xx-tv-box/ (Debian with XFCE) should be a safe step? How can I test it safely? With # aptitude search "linux-image" we have a lot of kernels for arm-64 .... but which them will work? In true, I am not sure by the right place to put my doubts ... Someone could give me some guidance? Maybe to open a new thread of this help? Thanks in advance. Claudio