Armbian on Seeed Studio Link Star H68K

[Marty McSly]

Greetings! My first foray into Armbian.

 

Apparently the Link Star H68K is hardware equivalent to the Hinlink H68K.

 

I'm trying to install one of the community supported Armbian images (Debian Trixie, Ubuntu 26.04)  for the Hinlink onto a Link Star H68K, using the RKDevTool from the Seeed Studio wiki. And failing.

 

The only image that loads into RKDevTool is the Lubuntu 20.04 from the Seeed Studio wiki. It's just a tad out of date.

 

Any pointers on getting a more up-to-date OS installed would be most welcome. AFAIK my device is OG, not V2.

 

I've also tried booting from TF card, but the device refuses to boot at all with a TF card inserted. Some Googling suggests that a current TF card is too fast for the device and causes boot failure. Card spec is Class 10 / UHS-1. I've sourced some Sandisk Class 4 cards and currently awaiting delivery, to see if that solves the boot issue and gives me a path to transfer the OS from TF to EMMC.

 

Any thoughts/advice most welcome.