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@blackc Exact the original U-boot DRAM settings from your boot.bin or an update. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/29794-how-to-install-armbian-in-h618/page/23/#findComment-218660 If you are still having issues ask the sunxi guys on IRC. https://oftc.catirclogs.org/linux-sunxi/2025-11-14

Fixed the automatic first boot configuration on Bookwarm. Now you can boot the desktop image without a usb serial device.

You need to set this to y or m in your kernel config. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/config/kernel/linux-sunxi64-edge.config#L5745 https://www.kernelconfig.io/config_usb_acm

@eli It's compiled in the kernel https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/Radxa-A7A/config/kernel/linux-sun60i-legacy.config#L1659-L1672

For those with a Radxa Cubie A7A, I made a custom Armbian Build using the BSP kernel. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/Radxa-a7a-v0.2 https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/Radxa-A7A Now supports automatic first boot configuration by default. No need for a usb serial device to boot into a desktop image. First boot takes awhile to load. If you are using a server image you need a usb serial device/ssh to interact with the console. There is no Framebuffer console support in the BSP kernel. If you want to edit the automatic first boot configuration read the documentation. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Autoconfig/ Username: radxa password: radxa

@emor acid The build system downloads the original uboot and kernel sources. Then it applies the patches on top. Whatever you edited will be erased. The only way around this is to create a patch with your changes. You could use dtc to compile your dts file into a binary dtb. Then copy it into your sdcard.

@Farhan Ishraq Have you tried the images in the link @Sadiq Ahmed posted? Download BalenaEtcher software. Write one of the bigtreetech cb1 images onto a SDcard. Put it in your box and boot.

@Gilliard Gabriel Rodrigues Mark was using my Transpeed image. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

@ayoub-hs I don't own one of these boxes. I got the patches from warpme's miniarch/minimyth2. Supporting the x96q is a real PITA. https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/issues/102 Comparing the uboot DTS for both x96q lpddr3 and x96q lpddr3 v1.3. I don't see much difference other than wifi. Maybe you'll find something I missed. u-boot: https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/159-add-x96-q-lpddr3-v1.3-defconfig.patch https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/150-add-x96-q-lpddr3-defconfig.patch Kernel: https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/kernel/archive/warpme-6.12/0648-arm64-dts-allwinner-h313-add-x96q-lpddr3-TVbox.patch https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/bootloaders https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/tree/master/script/bootloaders/u-boot-aw/files

@leXia "no matter which image I use, it always boots into Android". Maybe it's not booting into FEL mode or it's not reading your SDcard. To enter FEL mode, power off the TV box, insert your SDcard, press and hold a hidden button (often inside the AV port, reachable with a toothpick) while connecting the power cable, release the button after a few seconds. If that doesn't work try another SDcard. Usually, if you box detects uboot and stops you'll just get a black screen. Without UART communication I can't really help. If it boots the kernel then you can check your SDcard for log files.

@Jeeva Kandasamy it’s on this page https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20250306

@snow https://linux-sunxi.org/FEL/USBBoot I haven’t tried this before.

@snow download balena etcher and flash the image onto a sdcard. This will boot armbian off the sdcard. Unless you use armbian-config and write to emmc you will be fine.

@Jeeva Kandasamy I haven't had that error before. Maybe your host is out of date. Have you tried "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade"?

@Jeeva Kandasamy correct