edfarrera Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 Hello, I have an Orange Pi RK3399 and I'm very interested to install an armbian linux using the usb c instead of the usual method with the sd card. I have looked around but I was able to do it. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you very much for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 1 hour ago, edfarrera said: instead of the usual method with the sd card Why ? The SDCard method still the simpliest ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfarrera Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 16 minutes ago, martinayotte said: Why ? The SDCard method still the simpliest ... I understand that in normal cases it is the best, but if I need to flash multiple devices it becomes bothersome and personally I find difficult to bridge the pads to boot from the SD. I know that I may not make sense but I would really like to make the other solution work (or an alternative one) Thank you very much for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinayotte Posted July 18, 2019 Share Posted July 18, 2019 1 minute ago, edfarrera said: personally I find difficult to bridge the pads to boot from the SD This is true for the first installation, but once you have a Armbian U-Boot installed, simply stop u-boot before it boot the eMMC, and use "setenv devnum <x>", where "<x>" is the SDCard index, and then "run mmc_boot" For USB-C, I don't think there is an easy way ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfarrera Posted July 18, 2019 Author Share Posted July 18, 2019 7 minutes ago, martinayotte said: This is true for the first installation, but once you have a Armbian U-Boot installed, simply stop u-boot before it boot the eMMC, and use "setenv devnum <x>", where "<x>" is the SDCard index, and then "run mmc_boot" For USB-C, I don't think there is an easy way ... If theres a way that is hard the first time (for example that making the files is not that easy) but after that it's easy then i'm happy with it. I take it also as a personal challenge and a way to learn. Thank you for your explanation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfarrera Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 Would it be possible to do something similar to this post of the firefly with the orange pi and with armbian instead of ubuntu? Like for example change the uboot, kernel and rootfs images for armbian ones and get from somewhere the dtb file for the orange pi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 3 hours ago, edfarrera said: Would it be possible to do something similar to this post This is exactly what our build script does. For many years. But we don't deal with/support proprietary Rockchip tools http://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/ROC-RK3399-PC/upgrade_firmware_emmc.html for flashing ... which actually might even work. I successfully flashed Armbian image directly (via USB) to emmc to some older Rockchip hardware like https://www.armbian.com/z28-pro/ or https://www.armbian.com/miqi/ I assume it with this board it should go the same / similar but it is on you to try that. We already provide proper (ofc not fully finished/polished) DTB for Orangepi RK3399 by default. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edfarrera Posted July 23, 2019 Author Share Posted July 23, 2019 2 hours ago, Igor said: This is exactly what our build script does. For many years. But we don't deal with/support proprietary Rockchip tools http://wiki.t-firefly.com/en/ROC-RK3399-PC/upgrade_firmware_emmc.html for flashing ... which actually might even work. I successfully flashed Armbian image directly (via USB) to emmc to some older Rockchip hardware like https://www.armbian.com/z28-pro/ or https://www.armbian.com/miqi/ I assume it with this board it should go the same / similar but it is on you to try that. We already provide proper (ofc not fully finished/polished) DTB for Orangepi RK3399 by default. Hi thank you very much for your answer. I'm not very experienced but I'll see what I can manage with what you just told me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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