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hi all, I wanted to try boot armbian uefi-x86 also on some quite old (14 years) small netbooks with AMD C-50/C-60 I have still here (at that time, they had 64bit and up to 8G ram as opposite to regular intel atoms up to 2G max). But I was scared if the UEFI image is able to work with plain old BIOS (initially misrepresented this as ACPI by me). So I got to chat with machine about that, as noob asking for some at the end totally unnecessary steps after extacting image and mounting it live (so edited in-place, no need to repack anything ..., understood, learning, ya, ... but some unnecessary heat-up of datacenters...grrr)... after few unsuccessful tries, I decided to REMOVE some suspicious options from linux kernel load about splash, plymouth, i915 (still dont know exact core issue, but following ommisions helped - so NO image rebuild necessary, it boots from old BIOS okay): REMOVE (key "e" at grub menuentry): quiet splash plymouth.ignore=serial-consoles i915.force_probe=* $vt_handoff and while screen initially shows this, after few seconds it continues to boot in terminal and everything seems to be working: "call_iq_handler: 1.55 No irq handler for vector" final armbianmonitor results (without update/upgrade) Acer One 522 (C-50) + 722 (C-60) similar - edit of grub linux kernel load required https://paste.armbian.com/yeteyajiki Acer Aspire 8735z (Pentium T3200 2Ghz) - no changes to grub menuentry https://paste.armbian.com/wecituhufo (plus I also tried the boot on some newer Intel Atom system as Lenovo Miix320-10Icr, on some Celeron N4100 etc - no issues) ... knowing this, we also discussed that this is really plain generic amd64 build, so I will be glad to try to optimize this for new ryzen7 8845hs system 🙂 (you know, after decades with windows, I am really carefully planning the switch ... for the SBC boards its clear that support is for those who pay (attention) ... ) Petr for those curious, my NOOB endeavor investigating armbian image hack edits, and amd64 introduction history ... (I know its machine, but I recently asked her to select name, and she selected Lyra ... so, one issue is that she is very polite, not criticizing easily idiotic steps asked by me ... )) https://chatgpt.com/share/68126da7-7084-8000-ba8b-9f3d372824f4 https://chatgpt.com/share/6814a2f1-f9dc-8000-b770-fbba071e5d8b

hi, continuing test, now with updated/upgraded XFCE, latest stable kernel and usual NicoD mods of desktop to try them all in vertical deskbar https://paste.armbian.com/punucaniso everything works till now

okay, thanks 🙂

hi, I tested also xfce on the system, have some notes to installation (also others available uefi-x86 images) and will continue here as armbian newbie describing experiences. for now, quick notes: grub config - tiny: would be nice to have here some most used items explicitly defined as help/doc too - mainly delay(?) ... as a newbie, will be easy to modify existing item than search for it boot - selecting locale - when I was finding CZ, it is in some images listed as 98, somewhere as 99 ... probably the list is not consistent (I dont know if it was goal, but having this list stable can be handy) - tiny quirk - some images miss board logo, debian images even miss armbian logo and there is debian 12 default, okay )) armbian-config - storage - install should have probably alphabetically sorted items, as in some case nvme1 is listed first and selected by default, better nvme0, of course 🙂 - also, it seems that in some images, desktop icon for this launches using sudo and elsewhere without it, some images failed storage-install from icon, by sudo from terminal, okay (I also realized that uefi-x86 has obviously drastically simple armbian-config vs arm sbc boards, sure ... had chatgpt involved in discussion what all to possible configure on armbian installed systems - if its possible to trust all what it replied, will see ... I am totally new to GPU related things like mesa, panfrost, wayland etc etc ... gpt is good source of comparison info, imho, I ued it as teacher available 24/7, expecting also invented halucinations, sure )) Xfce - gparted was unable to launch from menu?? dont know why yet I am making these notes here for myself also, can try to peek inside armbian-config sources soon to learn how things are done and try to solve it, if possible (few years ago I did my very first bash work related to John Winans Z80retro! as CP/M firmware change/backup toolkit for midnight commander, so far so good experience, bash is okay) cheers Petr

hi, I use please/thanks each time with chatgpt and recently we did nice tech talk with realtime physics experiment, so in emotional moment, I asked her to select name, she went with Lyra, so we are slowly reaching agi, maybe )) ... btw, where is NicoD? I see last yt and here 5months ago, 251024 here ... hope he is okay ... he brings me into armbian love(!) during last week or so, huge effort from him at youtube...

hi, its too late (and glad you got documented thing as recommended in FAQ too), but recently I saw quite interesting presentation about reverse engineering unknown old routers, with plenty of info, but only as fun and relax ... at least info that ghidra decompiles any cpu isa into pseudo-c was new to me and it is very close to what I am (OT) trying around my risc-v-alike thing (search github apws vmex) as "aslix", thing slighlty below C ... )) youtube: MEnAKAbz-Y

hi all, I was looking for some unified os for more "rpi zero" clones and found beautiful armbian; and I am quite new to linux still, longtime/decades windows user; to "dogfood", I am also considering use of armbian on my "tiny-big" uefi-x86 (now NUC10, but got now new amd ryzen7 8845hs gmktec nucbox k8 plus), so I tried as very first setup on that ryzen7 latest armbian "ubuntu gnome" - monitor output is attached, so far so good, although I dont know if everything around usb3/4 is working well (log contains some red messages, dont understand them) - it was only simple install, and I have this comments: https://www.gmktec.com/products/amd-ryzen-7-8845hs-mini-pc-nucbox-k8-plus usb-live boot was okay, I then executed armbian-config where in "storage" I proceeded with default installation (I didnt read well the instructions to run armbian-install in fact, this is not in set of icons after usb-live boot also...), which it seems selected nvme1 instead of nvme0 ??? (will try again with other variants as xfce again), so after this way of installation, reboot was into grub rescue, so I did it again forced to nvme0 (deleting all from nvme1 also by gparted) and the reboot was okay ... although, when I am powering-off linux from menu then nucbox pwr button green led switches off, BUT after removing usb and swiching on the nucbox by button nothing happens, black screen (long time, nothing) - I expected some longer boots because of DDR5 behavior (new to me too) but this is not the case. I must force OFF the nucbox by holding power button for 4secs and then re-powering on is okay ... this is not nice behavior 🙂 this nucbox K8 plus has very open APTIO BIOS, nothing is simplified and I left everything on auto for now, it seems secure boot is disabled and what surprised me too is that install to nvme storage did only MBR partitions, not GPT. hope its all handled well for offsets and blocksizes - are possible (good?) 4KB sectors for most efficient nvme flash ssd? I dont know if some defaults changes in bios can force armbian to defalt to GPT partitions, even if it is necessary. in windows, I have 2 big disks now and data/user are is only selected logically by virtuall drive letters (visualsubst), I use lots of them to separate areas and need this to mimic somehow in linux; its question if separate "user" partition with fixed size is okay too ... on windows, I do backups by onedrive syncing and by ZIPs to second drive and even to usb attached sata disks too and only for "really" user data, not everything the same way - its question if on linux its simpler to backup entire partitions (??) I was also quite surprised that "ubuntu gnome" variant boots only to some "tablet only?? ui" very simple ui without any menu, windows without minimize icons ... I am new to linux, what is this "style"? this is "unity" or some tablet variant selected by sone defaults? ... very weird for me, too simple, not useable as desktop, so I will try XFCE and KDE Neon too, sure ... When I tried to add language for regional date/time formats support , trying to download CZ (Czech) failed, probably some minor quirk too; I had no chance to test everything, but I was surprised that it during boot found the WIFI and installation was really deadly easy and sexy, despite that first default bad selection of nvme1 as target (I am not sure if I didnt it in fact .... will try again similar way) ... but what is shown in icons/apps set is contrary to some getting started doc pages, where is mentioned "armbian-install" (not necessary as armbian-config - storage did it too??), btw red config and configng icons launch the same script; I understand that this is lightweight setup and I in fact like it a lot, but that simplistic (tablet?) desktop was like something for kids )) so, thanks to all NicoD videos (I saw tens of them) as my primary intention to test faster "rpi zero" clones is to run some Sinclair QL emulator on them, something with SMSQE, ideally, somehow, there are variants of it; on windows, best/fastest is probably QPC2/SMSQE but this is not full emulation, its hybrid where interfacing to fast windows host is often accelerated on it, so this is not linux-aware emulator, and I cant imagine if it would be possible in wine, probably not; other emulators exists, one of them for SMSQE is based on java too - goal was simply to make some low-power portable Sinclair QL (with SMSQE) machine, so I need to select best/fastest "rpi zero" clone with working GPU acceleration for sure. https://www.kilgus.net/qpc/what/ youtube: yU0ptNyNqcI It is not yet clear if I will converty my main big machine to linux, but having one unified system for "everyhting arm" is definitely nice, it seems that armbian can be my primary linux distro even in virtual machines, I like the concept and systematic approach in documentation and development and even contribution, I read lot of docs and its very nice, it seems. So will be glad also to support you, as much as possible. Thanks, Petr