NicoD

It would help if you'd say what board you're using and what image. With the info you give we know nothing.

@balbes150 I've done as you told me. Installed Android on eMMC, booted the Armbian with boot.ini file. Removed uboot directory in /usr/lib, installed to eMMC. On the end it said "no uboot found, quiting" If I now try to boot the board I only get this. Welcome to minicom 2.8 OPTIONS: I18n Port /dev/ttyUSB0, 15:27:18 Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys G12B:BL:6e7c85:2a3b91;FEAT:E0F83180:402000;POC:F;RCY:0;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;SD?:20000;USB:8;LOOP:1;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CHK:1F;SD?:20000;USB:8;LOOP:2;EMMC:0;READ:0;CHK:1F;READ:0;CH;

@balbes150 I now was able to install Armbian on eMMC from sd-card with Ubuntu 22.04 on eMMC. But after the install it doesn't boot from eMMC. Boot-loop. Here the output :

64GB sd but only 5GB is needed. 16GB eMMC Boot from eMMC system on eMMC It now works after installing Ubuntu 22.04 with OOWOW on eMMC and then boot Armbian from sd and do armbian-install to eMMC. But it doesn't boot the image from eMMC and doesn't boot the sd-card anymore either with Armbian + boot.ini file on. I can still boot the OOWOW sd-card. Will try again to install Ubuntu, boot armbian from sd, delete partition on eMMC and create a MS DOS table and no partition...

@balbes150 Unable to install to eMMC. "Partition too small. Needed: 5124 MB Available: MB" I've formatted the eMMC and created a partition but still the same. The eMMC is 16GB, so should be enough.

@balbes150Also works with Android on the eMMC.

That works. Empty eMMC and empty SPI with latest Armbian on SD : I will now install Android on eMMC and see if that also boots. Thank you.

@balbes150 This is armbian on sd with empty eMMC and SPI. Boot loop.

@balbes150 I've got the full output of Armbian on SD and Android on eMMC and it runs Android. I hope that's all you need.

@balbes150So I installed Android on eMMC. I think that's how it's shipped. But I'm having a very hard time to read out uart because it goes way too fast and forgets the top because too much info. I can show you the top of it and the last, but there's a whole part missing. The top, so Armbian SD non-working with Android on eMMC. Boots into Android... And the last part... Booting krescue from sd-card with Android on eMMC. If I find out how to get the whole output then I'll update it. I really hate uart...

So that wasn't krescue but oowow. Here is krescue with Ubuntu on eMMC

@balbes150 What configuration you want the output from? Non-working Armbian with Android on eMMC or working with Ubuntu on eMMC? Output of Armbian on SD with Ubuntu on eMMC, so working Armbian. Here boot with krescue on sd with Ubuntu on eMMC : Edit : it was OOWOW and not krescue, had both sd-cards and saw the files for oowow with rescue... If you want non-working Armbian with Android or with cleared eMMC + SPI, let me know. There's also no HDMI-audio but a dummy output. I'd like to see that fixed too if possible. Cheers.

I was able to recreate the problem when having Android on the eMMC. The new way Igor used didn't work for me. Used krescue to format eMMC and SPI. But then it didn't boot at all with the latest Armbian image. The boot loop. I then used OOWOW to install Ubuntu to the eMMC. And with Ubuntu on eMMC you can boot the latest Armbian image from SD and install to eMMC.

Setting up the Mekotronics R58X-HDD as Armbian Build server.

And to OC to 2.4Ghz on the big cores...

How to build Armbian with Windows/WSL2.

I3 on Armbian from a noobs point of view. My full desktop setup with Monkablyat his RK3588 Armbian Jammy images.

You do have a way to power your HDD do you? Or is it an SSD? A sata adapter only powers 2.5" devices. If it's 3.5" HDD then you need 12V. I would advice not to boot from HDD. If something goes wrong with the image on an sd-card then you just replace the sd-card without loosing anything from the HDD. Do use a good sd-card. Hard drives also aren't super fast, so no real speed benifit in using that.

@MinhIt is not GPU hw acc but VPU you need. Are you using the @amazingfate multimedia ppa? sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa #Panfork GPU ppa sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia #Multimedia ppa for VPU acceleration sudo apt update sudo apt dist-upgrade sudo apt install mali-g610-firmware rockchip-multimedia-config I suspect you might need gstreamer. That's included. My knowledge ain't great in these things, so maybe amazingfate or someone else can add to it.

GPU drivers have nothing to do with Armbian. Armbian can only show how to use them. We are not driver developers. It is expected that the blob Rockchip driver runs way better than the open-source panfrost/panfork drivers. Panfrost might improve in time. N2/N2+/VIM3 at first also performed worse than RK3399 but after time it now outperforms RK3399 by a lot. Both drivers are very useful to me. You can use the blob by running in x11 and run your program with "malirun programname" Not everything will work, but for example PS2 emulation works perfect like that. Video playback has nothing to do with GPU drivers but VPU drivers. For that there is the multimedia ppa from AmazingFate.

@Lotus09 I just made a video about gaming on RK3588. Here my Mekotronics review video : More video's on my channel about gaming on RK3588. It doesn't play every game, but enough to have a good time.

Hi all. I just made a video where I show how to build your own Armbian images on Windows. It used to be that you needed a virtualMachine running Linux but these days you can use WSL2. Here the video : Greetings, NicoD

Another update on armbian-gaming. Now winetricks can also be installed and Malior-Droid Android emulator.

Newly updated version of armbian-gaming V 0.5 Updated the box86/64 installer so you can choose what SoC to build for Updated wineX86 version to 7.15 Added install for winetricks Added build for Dolphin https://github.com/NicoD-SBC/armbian-gaming New video with changes on the way.