CrunchyDoodle

I appreciate your efforts to provide us Rock-5b users with a good working OS. To answer your questions about my issues: SPI problem: I did allow the zeroing and copying process to finish after several minutes. While I thought I was copying the correct file to the SPI, I may not have. The DISKS benchmark said that the SPI was quite slow. eMMC+NVME: This works very well and boots up fast. I don't care that I couldn't get the SPI+NVME to work. I'm pleased with my results. My HDMI sound is now working. I set the default audio sink to HDMI0 from the command line. I am currently using the GNOME release of Amrbian 22.11. I did try yours and I ran into some issue I can't remember right now. Here is my Wi-Fi issue: david@rock-5b:~$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. enP4p65s0 no wireless extensions. wlP2p33s0 IEEE 802.11AC ESSID:"OwlNet2" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>" Mode:Managed Frequency:5.785 GHz Access Point: 18:31:BF:59:CA:AA Bit Rate:867 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=73/100 Signal level=73/100 Noise level=0/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 wlan1 unassociated Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>" Mode:Managed Frequency=5.18 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Sensitivity:0/0 Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 I have the official Radxa Wi-Fi / BT card plugged in and get this same double Wi-Fi thing with any of the several Linux distros I've tried. Since it does work, I'm fairly happy with it. I do occasionally get complaints from wlan1 that it can't connect. I thank you again for all your efforts to help us Rock-5b users. Bye.

Armed with the new insights of how the installation tool actually works, I now have a working eMMC+NVME system. I could not get SPI to work. It pretended to accept being written to, but didn't. Considering how slow SPI is, I wonder if an eMMC+NVME system boots up a little faster. For now, I'm working on getting the HDMI sound working, and hoping for a fix to the death-loop-boot issue solved by an extra dumb 5V power cube. I'd also like to get rid of the extra Wi-Fi device that keeps throwing activation errors. I appreciate all the hard work developers have to do get software going smoothly. It's not easy. Bye.

I'm not having the same luck as others doing this. I would like to get the SPI+NVME system working. I've also tried eMMC+NVME, and that failed too. The error I get after clicking Yes and OK several times is: eMMC boot | USB/SATA/NVMe root install Partition too small. Needed: 8623 MB Avaliable: MB The armbian-install has erased both the SPI or eMMC and the NVME by this time, so there is enough space on either SPI or eMMC. I know this error is not what's actually happening, but what it reports. I would appreciate any helpful suggestions. Thanks, Bye.