Omer Hasanov

Honestly, the way it works right now is good enough, it just seemed weird for me since I couldn't find much info about this topic online (both the armbian-config thing, and the btrfs thing) I'll just post the issue on github after writing up some proper documentation behind it! Thanks again!

Thanks for the reply! The mirror sync thing just was unfortunate timing hahah! 15 minutes later all was good. EXT4 install did work, gpu seems to work and performance seems to be "OK". I am seeing like 1700~ points on vkmark, whereas some are seeing about 2400~ points, which is a 40 percent difference? It is probably because of the whole vendor-mainline kernel thing, as far as I can see panthor is supposed to work on mainline, have no idea how the magician behind it make it run on vendor... btrfs is definitely broken though, maybe need a ext4 boot partition / btrfs root partition type combo to make it work? Ah also, armbian-config has some funny behavior when trying to switch overlays on/off. You can select the two overlays available (panthor and oc profile) but I can't seem to be able to click save no matter what I tried. Changing armbianEnv.txt works, but I guess this is an issue that needs to go on github... Anyways, thanks again, I guess this thread is done now...

So a clean install of "Armbian 25.2.1 Noble Gnome" with the vendor kernel (6.1.99) fails to boot when installed on an nvme SSDwith the armbian-install script, when btrfs is chosen as the partition type. I am not sure if the files are copied over correctly, since the ~6GB image on the SD card is copied as 2.9GB on the btrfs partition, but there are no errors occuring as far as I can see. The bootloader is up-to-date, and I can access the btrfs drive when booted from the SD card, so the kernel supports btrfs I guess? However, I think there are some things going "wrong", since the armbianEnv.txt file on the nvme SSD has ext4 instead of btrfs as the rootfs? This is basically my first install of armbian so I don't know that much about the installation procedure, but I just followed the official guide (which is also somehow out of date afaik, the images seem wrong...) (Additionally, apt update + upgrade don't work right now, erroring out with "Mirror sync in progress", so I don't know if this failure is happening because of out of date packages...)