joggingMulberry

thanks @SteeMan for answering my question. I had a look at your [git hub PR](https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4296) and it's really good stuff! thank you for your time & effort in helping community make armbian run on amlogic tv boxes. I'm a web developer but I love linux. I've cloned the armbian repository and tried to build it locally(both using my local ubuntu 20.04 and docker ). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile it as it blows up my local storage so quickly (about 7G - 8G in 20 minutes and the build is still in progress. I chose BUILD_ONLY=u-boot,kernel ) I'm curious if the experience I had was to be expected. I've read some post you guys have discussed in the past, and here is what I've learnt so far * all soc vendors has their own legacy u-boot which are both bespoke and outdated * some vendor u-boot has boot order configured as sd card first, and you are lucky if you have such a device (e.g. rockchip rk3318/3328). You can use a mainline u-boot to boot the tv-box * some vendor u-boot always boot from emmc, e.g. amlogic s905 series , but they left a back door which allows chainload uboot (the presence of aml_autoscript) to a customized image (I have a ps classic and it seems to be the same case) * some vendor u-boot always boot from emmc and there is no back door left. In this case, you have to burn image into emmc via UART e.g. all hi-silicon socs If you can point out any mistakes in my understanding , that'd be much appreciated another question, since I wasn't able to build image myself (run out of storage too quickly), I downloaded prebuilt images. After I burnt them into my usb flash drive, I noticed there are 2 partition created. One is uboot and the other is linux rootfs (plus install-aml.sh which was put via `family_tweaks()`). I've also downloaded some prebuilt images of other boards, but they seem to only have one image. If you can comment on this, that would be great! Again, great project, and great ppl! Thank you so much for helping the community and I'm keen to help the community as well!

can I use a flash drive , or shell I only use sd card. thanks