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Success! It's still showing that first error, but using meson-gxbb-wetek-play2.dtb it was able to boot up and configure. Wifi works also. You guys are amazing! Thanks for all your inputs.

I tried Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.413_Aml-s9xx-box_plucky_edge_6.18.0-rc3.img I think the same is happening ... I did end up with the first error, as seen in the first pic above: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5GM3a6XUy6SZ6JA6 But then I got a nice Armbian splash screen, eventually it ended up going to initramfs, but interestingly no error about waiting for the FS was reported this time.. .... Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... BusyBox v1.37.0 (Ubuntu 1:1.97.0-4ubuntul) built-in shell (ash) Enter ‘help' for a list of built-in commands. (initramfs)

Sure.. appreciate the guidance... I am using Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.413_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.57_minimal So far I tried 2 different SDCards, one recent sandisk 32G (a good one) and one china fake that says 512GB .. both did the same thing. I also tried 2 dtb so far: meson-gxbb-p201.dtb and meson-gxbb-p200.dtb .. will try a few more before I send this to the EcoCenter. This box seems to be a lot more rare than I expected, so totally get why anyone (including me) would want to invest a lot of effort in getting it to run.

Wow.. I don't know how that brainfart happened. Used the correct uboot I managed to get somewhere. I tried to use the meson-gxbb-p201 but seems that the FS cannot be found... will try others but wondering if I should be tweaking UUIDs given the errors I am seeing: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Y5GM3a6XUy6SZ6JA6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/Qq3EPGScPUFWfuQP6 I do seem to have mmcblk1 (and mmcblk1boot0, etc..) in /dev if I poke around. Not sure if trying new dtb is a good approach or should I try to add the delay like the error suggests.

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.