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ah. good old omv annoyance. Known to mess up the system....

I think so, yes. As mentioned Armbian kernel comes with wireguard module pre-installed so nothing besides the userspace tools is required IIRC.

Ah yeah, now I know.
You are installing with recommends which might include wireguard and wireguard-dkms packages which have dependency on stock Debian/Ubuntu kernel which then will be installed and render your system unbootable.

Without proper logs this hard to track down. Try to grab some actual logs when you get a chance: https://debug.armbian.de
 
Wireguard is - kernel-wise at least - nowadays included in all Armbian images. However it might be necessary to install userspace tools separately (i.e. apt install --no-install-recommends wireguard-tools), especially on minimal images.

It should work - depends on the hardware - for the one we don't support, its unknown, for supported one we will try to fix in case of troubles. You can call
 
armbian-install
directly, so you don't install dependencies from armbian-config. There will soon be much lighter version of it, but current one is not very light.

Download Armbian with OpenMediaVault (OMV) 
Currently (for testing) only 4 targets were build: rock5-itx, odroid m1, odroid xu4 and x86. Once its confirmed that works well, other targets will be assembled. 

Then boot the image, wait few minutes and login via:

http://ip_address_of_armbian_running_ha
U: admin
P: openmediavault
 
Test setup on Odroid M1:
 
 
Tested on:
Odroid M1 Raspberry PI 4  
DIY

Key is not deprecated, method is. On Noble / Sid and future.
 
sudo wget https://apt.armbian.com/armbian.key -O key sudo gpg --dearmor < key | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg > /dev/null sudo chmod go+r /usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg sudo echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/armbian.gpg] http://apt.armbian.com $(lsb_release -cs) main $(lsb_release -cs)-utils $(lsb_release -cs)-desktop" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list apt update  

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers.
It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot.
Both drivers are very useful to me.
You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname"
Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that.

Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate. 

@BasThere are user built images from @monkaBlyat for the Mekotronics boards.
It has wayland GPU blob + panfork GPU driver + VPU acceleration + box64/86 and wine preïnstalled.
All info and links in the description of this video.
 

If you didn't download image from www.debian.org or www.ubuntu.com, then there those OSes does not support this HW. RebornOS is a desktop tweaking on top of one of those "Debian" / "Ubuntu" stock images. Just to straighten things ... and yes, this is common, nothing extraordinary.
 

Armbian maintainers are already totally overloaded, your support is almost not existing, vendor does not support us ... there is little we can do. We don't have endless time or equipment to support random purchases people made. But as our build framework is well maintained, making an image is pretty straightforward. Anyone can do it https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Adding-Board-Family/ but maintaining and dealing with problems, that lies in this cheap products, is another story.

In case anyone has a similar problem, the plugin depends on the wireguard meta package and on a 6.x kernel and headers (at least the >5.5 kernels I tried were unstable except the 6.1.11).
 
So unfreeze in armbian-config and select the 6.1.11 kernel, apt install linux-headers-edge-rockchip64 to install the headers then manually install the wireguard meta package then OMV from there.
 
Thanks for your time Igor.

It would need a complete rework and recompile