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The standard Armbian kernel has no support for flash memory access, because the Cubox-i has no flash-memory. So you need to build your own kernel with flash memory support. If you are familiar with flash memory access in u-boot, this might be an alternative.

The good thing is: You don't need to modify the contents of the image in order to make it run on an Utilite Pro (This image is supposed to support more or less all imx6 based devices). The nasty thing is: You need to modify the Utilite u-boot environment to make it compatible with the "distroboot-method" and you need to circumvent the limitations of the firmware. The Utilite u-boot cannot read from ext4 filesystems with 64 bit extensions enabled. Download the cubox-image and write it to an usb storage (a) Prepare another usb key (b) with an ext4 filesystem: sudo mkfs.ext4 -O ^64bit /dev/sdxX Mount both and copy the contents from (a) to (b) Adjust the rootfs UUID in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and /etc/fstab Plug-in usb key (b) to your Utilite and check if it boots up.

The matter is, which part of the firmware seems to be broken? If you have flashed the firmware-update mentioned above (before you have bricked it) and if the SPL is still intact, the SPL tries to load the u-boot binary from µSD first. Since Compulab has abandoned Utility Pro support I share the latest "official" firmware here. utilite-updater-2015-10.tar.bz2

Hm, iirc compulab has issued an updated firmware for the Utilite Pro in 2015 (utilite-updater-2015-10.tar.bz2) which tries to load the u-boot binary from µSD first, if present.

Armbian + Docker + Home Assistant Container (https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux#install-home-assistant-container)

You may check these pins.