joggingMulberry Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 (edited) can I use a flash drive , or shell I only use sd card. thanks Edited January 7, 2023 by joggingMulberry update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeMan Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 By flash drive I'm assuming you mean a usb flash drive. Yes that should work, but generally an sd card is recommended and more commonly used. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maka Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) I prefer to use a usb drive and you can boot from It. This way you get 150 MB/s instead of 20 MB/s and you can feel your box like a Desktop PC. Edited January 8, 2023 by maka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joggingMulberry Posted January 9, 2023 Author Share Posted January 9, 2023 (edited) thanks @SteeMan for answering my question. I had a look at your [git hub PR](https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4296) and it's really good stuff! thank you for your time & effort in helping community make armbian run on amlogic tv boxes. I'm a web developer but I love linux. I've cloned the armbian repository and tried to build it locally(both using my local ubuntu 20.04 and docker ). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to compile it as it blows up my local storage so quickly (about 7G - 8G in 20 minutes and the build is still in progress. I chose BUILD_ONLY=u-boot,kernel ) I'm curious if the experience I had was to be expected. I've read some post you guys have discussed in the past, and here is what I've learnt so far * all soc vendors has their own legacy u-boot which are both bespoke and outdated * some vendor u-boot has boot order configured as sd card first, and you are lucky if you have such a device (e.g. rockchip rk3318/3328). You can use a mainline u-boot to boot the tv-box * some vendor u-boot always boot from emmc, e.g. amlogic s905 series , but they left a back door which allows chainload uboot (the presence of aml_autoscript) to a customized image (I have a ps classic and it seems to be the same case) * some vendor u-boot always boot from emmc and there is no back door left. In this case, you have to burn image into emmc via UART e.g. all hi-silicon socs If you can point out any mistakes in my understanding , that'd be much appreciated another question, since I wasn't able to build image myself (run out of storage too quickly), I downloaded prebuilt images. After I burnt them into my usb flash drive, I noticed there are 2 partition created. One is uboot and the other is linux rootfs (plus install-aml.sh which was put via `family_tweaks()`). I've also downloaded some prebuilt images of other boards, but they seem to only have one image. If you can comment on this, that would be great! Again, great project, and great ppl! Thank you so much for helping the community and I'm keen to help the community as well! Edited January 9, 2023 by joggingMulberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis_D Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Dear joggingMulberry, this distribution is made mainly for developer board. You have to install it on a sd card. After that you can install it from command line to a flash drive. Please follow our Quick installation guide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeMan Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 @Luis_D That installation guide doesn't apply to the Amlogic tv box builds (aml-s9xx-box) as they have their own procedures documented in the TV Box forum FAQ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis_D Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 @SteeMan You are right. Didn't notice this in the posting of joggingMulberry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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