I got same issue like @ArtUrlWWW on H96 Pro+ 3GB/32GB S12. On LE I use gxm_q200_3g.dtb and works with no problem at all but on "Armbian_5.37_S9xxx_Ubuntu_xenial_3.14.29_mate_20171226.img" boot well without any dtb but it stuck on similar ss posted above.
I can enter to gui with command "strartx" from a tty shell but it send me to a different gui I think because it doesn't have the option of lightdm in the upper right corner of the screen where I can choose one of the three option there and at the same time I can't use sudo from mate terminal.
For some strange reason that I don't understand when I was try to run Armbian for the 2nd or 3rd time I could enter to Armbian login with no problem but wifi didn't work so I hadn't read enough then try to fix it running Armbian from zero again with no luck (noob mistake, now I know that I just need to load the wifi_dummy module :)) after that I flashed my tvbox to its stock firmware, reburned my media a few times with no luck.