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Yes, so copied u-boot-s905x-s912 to u-boot.ext, and the image seemed to already have fdt /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxl-s905x-p212.dtb in extlinux.conf which seems to be a good candidate. What bugs me is that it just goes blank - leading me to suspect its not finding whatever bootstrap script it needs. Something strange is that when I mount the burned the SDCard, I see two partitions: armbi_boot (containing the dtb, uboot, etc) and armbi_root with an empty /boot dir.. am I supposed to copy stuff to the armbi_root partition under /boot ? amd create a /dtb dir? I otherwise don't see a /boot dir in the armbi_boot partition as described in the amlogic instruction : "In the BOOT partition of the SD card there will be a file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf" ... there is only a /extlinux/extlinux.conf that I have been playing with.

Trying to figure out how to initiate toothpick mode in order to flash a minimal iot Armbian image. I found a recovery1 button (accessed from a pinhole) but holding this while powering on, or holding the 'power' button while powering on, doesn't seem to get me anywhere. It seems that whenever I insert my 32G sdcard (maybe not supported?), something happens where the stock android does not boot after the initial MINIX splash screen, but just sits on a black screen (regardless of how I may have powered it on). Initially I thought it was doing something, so I let it run overnight.. I restarted it in the am, but when I removed the SDCard, it just booted back into the original stock androidn.