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Thanks Nick for the reply and the explanation - Appreciate your assistance. I think this is where I'm facing the problem with the Armbian version I have found (vs. MiniArch) I don't know what exactly and where to write using sunxi-fel. For MiniArch, image builder for the TX1 explains to use the following commands to boot via FEL (but where it crashes): sunxi-fel -v -p uboot bootloader/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin write 0x40200000 Image write 0x4fa00000 dtbs/allwinner/sun50i-h313-tanix-tx1.dtb write 0x4fc00000 load-kernel.scr While for Armbian, I don't know exactly what to send (except sending the bootloader u-boot which works but starts Android). @Nick A : you suggested a command: write 0x4ff00000 rootfs.cpio.lzma.uboot I understand that I should use this with sunxi-fel - but could you tell me more? Should I add it to existing Sunxi-fel command or? What is the purpose of this command?

I'm moving forward. I managed to get the FEL - a true Male A <> Male A USB cable is required. FEL mode is now working. I'm able to transfer the u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of Armbian but TX1 is booting on Android immediately (based on Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.12.64_minimal.img - u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin extracted). This means that I don't have the possibility to boot on the Armbian USB drive (flashed with u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin) Similarly, I tried with another image based on MiniArch (MiniArch-20240715-6.18.7-board-h313.tanix_tx1-SD-Image.img.xz). I was able to transfer those MiniArch via FEL: sunxi-fel -v -p uboot bootloader/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin write 0x40200000 Image write 0x4fa00000 dtbs/allwinner/sun50i-h313-tanix-tx1.dtb write 0x4fc00000 load-kernel.scr Original made Load-kernel.scr in the MiniArch-20240715-6.18.7-board-h313.tanix_tx1-SD-Image.img.xz : setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait ram=1024M debug booti 0x40200000 - 0x4fa00000 With the MiniArch FEL, the TX1 is not booting on Android and I can see 4 penguins with cursor. I updated the load-kernel.scr to have some verbose by changing the console: setenv bootargs console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/sda2 rw rootwait rootdelay=60 ram=1024M debug loglevel=7 booti 0x40200000 - 0x4fa00000 Result: MiniArch bootloader and FEL transfer writes allow to boot. USB devices are detected (USB Hub, USB drive, keyboard) but nothing happens further, or it ends up with a kernel panic. Output of the Linux TX1 console after MiniArch FEL transfer sequence: 1.651121] sunxi-mc 4022000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 2048 KB, u [ top_ops) 1.655936] sunti-drm display-engine: bound 6510000.tcon-top Cops sunBi_tcon_ 1.973277] mnc2: new high speed DDR MMC card at address 0001 _tcon_ops) 1.9745881 sunfi-drm display-engine: bound 6515000. lcd-controller Cops sunti 1.9789521 mncblk2: mmc2:0001 HAGZe@ 14.7 GiB 1.9825631 sunBi-du-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: Detected HDMI TX controller u2.12a wi th HDCP (DWC HDMI 2.0 TX PHY) p17 1.990428] mncblk2: p1 p2 p3 p1 p5 p6 p? p8 p9 p10 p11 p12 p13 p14 p15 p16 [ iver 1.991663] sunBi-du-hdmi 6000000.hdmi: registered Designbare HDMI I2C bus dr 1.998192] mncblkbooto: mnc2:0001 HAGZed 4.00 MiB 1.999521] sunti-drn display-engine: bound 6000000.hdmi Cops sunBi_du hami_o ps) 2.007404] mncblk2boot1: mnc2:0001 HAGZes 4.00 MiB 2.012147] [drm] Initialized sunfi-drm 1.0.0 for display-engine on minor o 2.723997] Console: switching to colour frane buffer device 240x67 2.7468481 sunti-den display-engine: larm] fb0: sunti-drodrufb frame buffer device 2.7554683 2.7573363 usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001, bcdDevice= 6.18 of_cis_init 2.7599291 sunxi-nuc 4021000.mmc: allocated mnc-purseg 2. 763866] ush usb3: New USE device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 2.766352] of_cfs_init: 0K 2.771541] usb usb3: Product: Generic Platform OHCI controller 2.7789161 clk: Disabling unused clocks 2.781535] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 6.18.7 ohci_hcd 2.785297] sunxi-nnc 4021000.mnc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB, uses new tinings mode 2.7875991 PM: genpd: Disabling unused power domains 2.7914431 usb usb3: SerialNumber: 5101400 .usb 2.8161741 check access for rdinit=/init failed: -2, ignoring 2.816738] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [2.822049 Waiting 90 sec before mounting root device... 2.831452] hub 3-0:1.0: 1 port detected 2.8428851 mnc1: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001 7.4519021 usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform 7.6636101 usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0a05, idProduct=7211, bcdDevice= 1.00 7.6718951 usb 3-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, Seria lNumber=0 7.679084] usb 3-1: Product: USBZ.0 HUB 7.684782J hub 3-1:1.0: USB hub found 7.6896091 hub 3-1:1.0: 4 ports detected 8.115235] usb 3-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-platform 8.224936] usb 3-1,1: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub 8.266936] usb 3-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=059f, idProduct=1022, bcdDevice= 1.00 8.2753821 8.282744] USD 3-1,1: New USB device strings: Mfral, Product=2, SerialMunber=3 usb 8.2871451 usb 3-1.1: Product: LaCie lanaKey 8.2912791 usb 3-1.1: Manufacturer: LaCie 3-1.1: SerialNumber: 97e0bfb3cfe007 8.501898] แรง 3-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 4 using ohci-platform 8.6079401 8.6163791 usb 3-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0318, idProduct=2808, bcdDevice= 2.00 3-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, Seria lNumber=0 8.6237581 usb 3-1.2: Product: 2.4G Composite Devic 8.711901] uSb 3-1.3: new low-speed USB device number 5 using ohci-platform 8.847941] usb 8.8563831 usb 3-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=04f2, idProduct=0403, bcdDevice= 1.65 3-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, Seria lNumber=0 8.865882] usb 3-1.3: Product: USB Keyboard 8.8722631 usb 3-1.3: Manufacturer: Chicony 12.851997] sun501-h6-prcm-ppu 7010250. power-controller: sync_state() pending due to 1800000. gpu If I wait, I ended up seeing a kernel panic : Kernel panic - not suncing: UFS: Unable to mount rout fs ; on unknoun-block(0,0) 93.6966821 b30d 93.696690] 03.7097151 b30e 93.7097231 93.7224501 b30f 93.7227581 93.7357951 b310 93.735804] 33.748859] b311 163B4 mncblk2p9 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe4d 163B4 mncblk2p10 а0085546-4166-741a-a353-fca9272bBete 16384 mncblk2p11 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe4f 16384 mmcblkZp12 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe50 512 mmcblk2p13 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe51 15872 mncblk2p14 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe52 163B4 mncblk2p15 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe53 16384 mncblk2p16 а0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe54 11423727 mmcblk2p17 a0085546-4166-744a-a353-fca9272bBe55 93.748867] 93.761944] b320 4096 mmcblkZbooto 93.7619521 (driver?) 93.7121621 b340 4096 mmcblk2boot1 93.7121121 (driver?) 99.7835151 List of all bdeu filesystems: 33.7895001 exts 93.7895061 ext4 93.793371] extz 33.7972031 ufat 93.8010141 msdos 93.8048091 93.8120251 Kernel panic - not suncing: UFS: Unable to mount rout fs ; on unknoun-block(0,0) 93.8221681 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G 6.18.7 #1 PREEMPT 56ea6Zc682B4f70bf2 93.9338801 -1 end Kernel panic - not syncing: UFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) }— 93.836517] Tainted: [WI-WARN 93.841380] Hardware name: Tanix TX1 (DT) 93.8472801 Call trace: 93.8515981 show_stack+0x24/0x70 (C) 93.857135] dump_stack_lul+0x74/0x94 93.8626511 dump _stack+0x14/0x24 93.8677961 upanic+0x104/0x2d4 93.872767] panic +0x5c/0x64 93.877447] mount root gener ic+0x14/0x29B 93.8834131 mount_root +0x16c/0x188 93.8886741 prepare _namespace +0x1cc/0x22c 93.8945131 kernel_init_frecable+0x264/0x284 93.900587] kernel_init+0x1c/0x140 93.905767] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 93.9110311 MP: stopping secondary CPU: 93.9166281 Kernel Offset: disable 93.9217681 CPU features: At this stage, I'm stuck with the TX1 : - Armbian Image - no boot success - FEL difficult - MiniArch - boot started but stuck Any help would be appreciated.

Hello Nick, Thanks for your reply. I tried to do this with a basic USB A to C cable, with an adapter on the USB-C part to have a USB male. The TX1 started (LED lit up) but no detection of the TX1 as USB device on my machine I'm using a Macbook M1 with Debian Linux VM to detect this. And the TX1 is never detected as USB OTG.

Hello, I'm stuck as well. I tried to boot on different version of Armbian made for H313 (X96Q) but without success (burning image on USB drive, booting with AV FEL button pressed during boot). LED remains RED and no booting. I tried miniarch. I tried to enter fel mode via USB and Debian virtual Machine witout succcess (the TX1 does not appear as USB peripheral during my USB FEL attempts).

Hello, I'm also interested in finding an image and getting feedback on Tanix TX1 QHZIW_H313_TX1_EMCP_V2.0. I bought this cheap box on Temu for 15 USD (2GB/16GB) I tried with USB drive and BalenaEtcher several images, without success (trying to boot on it, with tootpick on button) : 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v1-3_bookworm_current_6.12.64_minimal.img.xz 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_24.11.0-trunk_X96q_bookworm_current_6.6.44_mate_desktop.img.xz 🔴 Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_X96q-v5-1_bookworm_current_6.12.64_cinnamon_desktop.img.xz Based on my other experiences, this box, although close to x96q, is different. With X96Q, you just have to use SD card and boot was succesful. However, here, nothing is working. Looking for other's experience and advice.