pomelo

I only booted to CoreELEC and LibreELEC from the external SD card. Never installed to the eMMc. I have been using the latest images and that is probably why I didn't find the "u-boot-s905x-s912" file in them. Thanks to you, I managed to boot using the Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_focal_current_5.9.0.img.xz image. Ethernet is working, but there is no wlan0. dmesg shows the wifi device as "TLL901X". Can you suggest any other distro where wifi is functioning, it doesn't have to be armbian or latest? Sorry for the late reply. I am still stuck with 1 post a day.

I am very grateful that you replied to this topic. I had to wait 24 hours to reply to this post because I am a new user and I can only post 1 post per day. I am using a MXQPRO_II which is the name I see when I boot into recovery. It has 1GB Ram and has S905X Chip. I managed to boot into CoreELEC and LibreELEC. After going to the link you shared and using dd to write "Armbian_20.11_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.8" I edited the extlinux.conf and selected the gxl212 dtb because in LibreELEC it worked. So flashed the image in the SD card and edited extlinux.conf and tried to boot by typing "recovery update" on a terminal emulator on the box. It didn't work. I could enter recovery but that's it. If I select either "Reboot to System" or "Reboot to bootloader", I boot into the default Android OS. Can you suggest what I should do to get linux up and running on the MXQPro_II box(S905x, 1GB RAM)? I am planning on installing SNORT and using it as an intrusion detection system if I managed to run linux on it. P.S. I probably won't be able to reply before 24 hours because I am a new user.

I am having the exact same problem. I am having a hard time figuring out where to look for the "u-boot-s905x-s912.img" file.