Trying to burn the latest armbian build and gets always corrupted

[carlop3333]

So i've been using the build: "Armbian_community_24.8.0-trunk.6_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_edge_6.8.10" and trying to burn it with balenaEtcher.

The issue is that when ending to verify and configuring - inserting the sd card into a TX3 Mini (board is v1.6) goes into a bootloop.

This does happen with all of my sd cards and flash drives, and no, its not that they're faulting, CoreELEC does flash and boot correctly in all of them.

I also did the f3 test, and no issues were found.

 

Something particular that I have found is that macOS does detect very easily the corruption and ejects the drive/card, while Windows just lets it pass "as intended"

 

I've also tried in another PC but got same issue.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

 

 

 

[SteeMan]

What uboot and dtb are you using?

What size and type of sd card?

[carlop3333]

22 minutes ago, SteeMan said:

What size and type of sd card?

Im using mini sd cards, one is 16gb  and the other is just 8gb; i also tried with an 8gb usb flash drive

22 minutes ago, SteeMan said:

What uboot and dtb are you using?

u-boot is s905x-s912 and dtb is "meson-gxl-s905w-tx3-mini"

 

Also i flashed the box yesterday to stock rom (i was using atvx) but now there is not a bootloop, it just boots normal android (still detects and boots coreelec)

Edited May 30 by carlop3333

[SteeMan]

14 minutes ago, carlop3333 said:

(still detects and boots coreelec)

Per the installation instructions, if you ever run another os (like coreelec) you will not be able to run armbian.  You have to reflash a clean android environment to run armbian.

[carlop3333]

5 minutes ago, SteeMan said:

You have to reflash a clean android environment to run armbian.

Did that again. Still nothing 😕

[SteeMan]

As the instructions say, you need to try all dtbs compatible with your cpu to find one that hopefully will work.  Have you done that?

[SteeMan]

Also, this thread seems to be similar to yours.  I don't know if the board revision is the same as yours.

[carlop3333]

1 hour ago, SteeMan said:

As the instructions say, you need to try all dtbs compatible with your cpu to find one that hopefully will work.  Have you done that?

Yep, nothing

58 minutes ago, SteeMan said:

Also, this thread seems to be similar to yours.  I don't know if the board revision is the same as yours.

Where's the link?

[carlop3333]

This is getting weirder... so i found out about ophub's armbian build.... It works

 

macOS does not detect any corruption on the drive, and boots without any issue...

 

I'm just coming to the conclusion that the issue is the armbian image itself.. tried other 3 latest builds, nope. Tried an archived build... nothing as well, same formatting error

 

(Just in case, the board is the same as the one detailed in this forum)