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I tried the desktop image for Odroid with my updated dtb.img and s805_autoscript but no luck. No display, no ping. balbes150's desktop image (Armbian_5.20_Vegas805_Ubuntu_xenial_3.10.102_desktop_20160923) worked after a few times rebooting, however with graphic distortions. I had a few rw errors and a locked dpkg at first boot - was there any automated action? - then it would not reboot after an apt-get upgrade btw. I do have quite a few rw errors on SD - any advice? @balbes150 did you list the modifications to the vegas805 images somewhere that make it work? thanks,

ok my system (cli) is up, thanks to @balbes150, @dilligaf, @mdel Still got to try the desktop. my steps: enabled multiboot as described here: http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/amlogic-based-tv-players/s905/tronsmart-ac/firmware-roms-tools-at/565449-running-linux-from-sd-card-or-usb-flash-drive-using-balbes150-method-and-files\ created my SD card (8GB): dd if=Armbian_5.20_Vegas805_Ubuntu_xenial_3.10.102_20160923.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m did not boot - had to choose a dtb.img file - booted without enthernet. did not find the right one - extracted it from android: Install shell app on android open shell app box>su (to make sure you're root) box>strings /dev/block/env box>dd bs=1M if=/dev/block/boot of=/path/of/your/sdcard/boot.img (wait it can be long) installed split_bootimg.pl and device-tree-compiler as described here: http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/05/12/how-to-extract-a-device-tree-file-from-android-firmware-files/ sudo apt-get install device-tree-compiler wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jberkel/1087743/raw/5be96af0e1c1346678379b0c0f0330b71df51f25/split_bootimg.pl extracted it with script: split_bootimg.pl boot.img tried to compile it to blob got incorrect magic number error cut the first 2048 bytes with dd if=dtb.img-second.xz of=boot-tmp.img skip=2048 dtc -I dtb boot-tmp.img -O dts -o m8_201.dtd dtc -I dtb boot-tmp.img -O dtb -o dtb.img copied dtb.img to BOOT booted fine - seems to work.

Hi everyone, I read up to here trying to figure out how to run armbian on a MXQ 805. But there where many steps that where corrected - what are the correct steps as of now? I am happy to try and report back - but I can't see any uart on my board. thanks