I install the image from this page: https://armbian.com/boards/aml-s9xx-box.

Choose the version:

Debian 13 trixie Minimal (CLI) — current 6.18.60 361 MB

root@aml-s9xx-box:~# uname -a
Linux aml-s9xx-box 6.18.60-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 30 12:06:41 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I have successfully run with SDCard, but cannot install it to eMMC.

root@aml-s9xx-box:~# ./install-aml.sh
Start script create MBR and filesystem
/dev/mmcblk1
Start backup u-boot default
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB, 4.0 MiB) copied, 1.29 s, 3.3 MB/s
Start create MBR and partittion
Start restore u-boot
442+0 records in
442+0 records out
442 bytes copied, 0.0070075 s, 63.1 kB/s
8191+0 records in
8191+0 records out
4193792 bytes (4.2 MB, 4.0 MiB) copied, 0.499351 s, 8.4 MB/s
Done
Start copy system for eMMC.
Formatting BOOT partition...mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
done.
Copying BOOT...done.
Edit init config...done.
sed: can't read /ddbr/install/boot.ini: No such file or directory
done.
Formatting ROOT partition...
/dev/mmcblk1p2 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'ROOT_EMMC'
        last mounted on /ddbr/install on Wed Nov  4 20:50:00 2026
e2fsck 1.47.2 (1-Jan-2025)
ROOT_EMMC: clean, 12/385024 files, 46947/1539328 blocks
done.
Copying ROOTFS.
Copy BIN
Create DEV
Copy ETC
Copy HOME
Copy LIB
Copy LIB64
tar: lib64: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
Create MEDIA
Create MNT
Copy OPT
Create PROC
Copy ROOT
Create RUN
Copy SBIN
Copy SELINUX
Copy SRV
Create SYS
Create TMP
Copy USR
Copy VAR
Copy fstab
rm: cannot remove '/ddbr/install/usr/bin/ddbr': No such file or directory
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Complete copy OS to eMMC
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Even though it says Complete, but it cannot boot from eMMC, stuck in a loop. I notice it said "sed: can't read /ddbr/install/boot.ini: No such file or directory", which in this system, there is no boot.ini.

root@aml-s9xx-box:~# ls /
bin  boot  ddbr  dev  etc  home  lib  lost+found  media  mnt  opt  proc  root  run  sbin  selinux  srv  sys  tmp  usr  var
root@aml-s9xx-box:~# ls -la /ddbr
total 12
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root 4096 Nov  4 22:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Nov  4 20:46 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov  4 22:35 install
root@aml-s9xx-box:~# ls -la /ddbr/install
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov  4 22:35 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Nov  4 22:35 ..
root@aml-s9xx-box:~# uname -a
Linux aml-s9xx-box 6.18.60-current-meson64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 30 12:06:41 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I look up and see some suggest using armbian-install, but this image don't have that.

I tried to copy the armbian-install raw file from ophub github, but it failed at the checking for ophub release file step.

So how can I install it to eMMC?

Thank you for your help.

Edited Wednesday at 03:36 PM2 days by tyrys

^Reserve

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by tyrys