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Hi all i'm trying to boot my Orange Pi bord over the network. For this purpose i'm going to use SPI Flash memory to load bootloader (Uboot). I found a tool named nand-sata-install introduced by Igor. I have read all the script and i'm wondering how much capacity my SPI NAND flash should have. SunXi recommends 2MB (16Mbit) but my bootloader is about 5MB.

Hello, I'm using a orangepi pc with armbian and I want to boot (automatically if possible) from the usb flash drive where I flashed batoceda. Is it possible? And if so, would you have step by step? Thanks a lot.

Am I right, that there are no wifi support at uboot level for sunxi boards? And the only similar solution to use wifi at early level is to boot linux kernel with wifi support from SPI flash.

hello, i struggle to boot linux kernel again in SDCard hummingboard pulse. before this i try to make U-boot in the emmc but failure. i want back to use linux kernel from SDcard again but stuck in this U-boot preview and the problem is ** File not found /boot/dtbs/5.10.72-imx8-sr/imx8mq-hummingboard-pulse.dt* ** File not found /boot/vmlinuz ** in mmc0 and ** File not found /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.72-imx8-sr ** ** File not found /boot/vmlinuz ** in mmc1 this the picture when i try to remote from minicom https://drive.google.com/file/d/15y_Q00i5NHM4h_rmrifiZSVvat8FuJmF/view?usp=sharing

I rebooted from the 6.6.16-current-sunxi kernel to the 6.7.4-edge-sunxi on my Orange Pi +2E and it couldn't mount some partitions from a USB stick. These use LVM2, and each partition is encrypted using LUKS2 with a keyfile stored in /etc (yes, I know this is a fig leaf encryption, but it prevents someone from grabbing the USB stick and getting the contents of the drive). This works fine with the older kernel, but fails with the newer kernel. I use the exact same setup on a Rock 64 board, and it works fine, on the 6.7.4-edge-rockchip64 kernel.

Hi, I'm trying to install new bananian 15.08 ( jassie ), in the past I installed 15.04 ( wheezy ) and setup sata encrypted disk successfully using follow instructions ( http://development-annotations.blogspot.it/2015/05/banana-pi-encrypted-sata-disk-bootstrap.html ). In the new 15.08 the /boot layout changed and I need some help: I tried to setup the root disk in the boot.cmd and compiled the boot.scr # mainline kernel >= 4.x #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 console=tty1 cryptdevice=/dev/sda1:cryptroot root=/dev/m…

Hello! After installing Debian stable (bookworm) v25.2 on my Cubietruck from SD card to SSD using armbian-install and then moving boot to SSD using armbian-config: Install/Update the bootloader on (/dev/sda/) i'm trying to boot with SD card removed and ending up in this strange android GUI. My /etc/fstab is looking like this: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,nosuid 0 …

OrangePiZero, Armbian_20.05.1_Orangepizero_buster_current_5.4.43 in RPI they have an option "Boot without waiting for network connection" which to be honest I do not know does what under the hood. What can I use with armbian to get faster boot time? I do not use Ethernet at all, I use wifi but do not want to wait for it to start using my device. Here is my boot statistics: root@orangepizero:~# systemd-analyze Startup finished in 7.295s (kernel) + 29.971s (userspace) = 37.266s graphical.target reached after 29.810s in userspace root@orangepizero:~# systemd-analyze blame 8.967s networkd-dispatcher.serv…

Current system Armbian Bionic (Ubuntu 18.04) - Orange Pi One I am trying to duplicate a previous system, which I have had operating on Raspberry Pi . I have tested my script on the Orange Pi and after a few tweaks, it works fine (brilliant piece of kit!). I just need to boot to command line / terminal auto sign-in upon boot - automatically run python script within command line (the python script is an input form). Really appreciate any help / suggestions on this. Steve

I just want to know how to boot from SD card again after setting boot from nand (./nand-sata-install) on my cubieboard. I got a "Reset board" message. Thanks.

Everything works, but I don't know why (;-) I upgraded to a new kernel 6.12.34-current-meson64 and also to the current u-boot. If I take a look at a current armbian image, every image.. vmlinux.. etc. is available in the boot folder, but no uImage. In my boot folder, however, in addition to the these files in the current armbian image, in my boot folder is still is a uImage from 2022. uname -r -> 6.12.34-current-meson6 So the current kernel is loaded and everything works. But if I now delete the uImage from 2022, the computer no longer boots. How does a current armbian image manage to boot without uImage? Is a uImage created at the first start? Manually…

Hello! How to show boot.bmp instead U-Boot log? Default Armbian inage only show ERROR that bmp is 8 bit but must be 32 bit. What wrong?

Current Hardware Setup: Rockpi 4C,eMMC module,eMMC to SD Card Adapter, M.2 Extension Board, NVME Drive, USB To Serial Debug Cable. OS: Armbian_20.08.1_Rockpi-4b_focal_current_5.8.6.img.xz (Right now, I'm using the above mentioned os from sdcard and the os can detect nvme disk using 'lsblk' command) Query: How one can install '/boot' partition on eMMC (or sdcard) and '/' (root-partition) on NVME disk (attached to rockpi 4c through M.2 Extension Board) ? (aim is to boot from either eMMC or ssd and use nvme disk as / partition) Waiting for your valuable suggestions. Thanks in advance from, Spherulite.

An hour a go I powered down my Neo Core 2 and now I can't get it to boot properly. When I hook it to the serial Monitor this is the output. It tries to load the "-fixup.scr" file in the /boot/dtb/allwinner/overlay folder but of course this is not available. With the extfls command I searched the folder and those two files would be available: sun50i-h5-fixup.scr sun50i-a64-fixup.scr The "sun50i-h5-fixup.scr" would be the right one for my processor however why does it choose "-fixup.scr" instead? Here is the boot sequence output: Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2017.11-armbian (Mar 20 2018 - 14:52:25) DRAM: 1024 Mi…

Hello, I try to boot on an Orange PI Zero, after several attempts with armbian 5.25 jessie and xenial.Systematically the boot hangs (totally frozen). In the boot log I have the following error (at line 960 of the pastebin) "[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules." Full booting log status: http://pastebin.com/tzyk2uMk Is there anyone to help me thank you

Hi, I'm trying to boot a legacy 3.4 kernel using the current Armbian U-Boot but progress stops after U-Boot starts the kernel. The last line displayed is "Starting kernel ...". I believe the kernel (uImage) is being loaded at 0x48000000 and the script.bin is being loaded at 0x43000000. These values seem correct to me. Does anybody know if booting these old kernels is still supported with newer U-Boot ? I'd like to have one U-Boot that can handle both old and new. Thanks, Steven

Hello everyone. I ran "apt upgrade" on my board, which also updated kernel, and after reboot it won't boot up. I've managed to copy output from serial, here it is: Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2017.11-armbian (Jan 24 2018 - 22:08:25) DRAM: 1024 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.11-armbian (Jan 24 2018 - 22:08:25 +0100) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A31s (SUN6I) Model: Sinovoip BPI-M2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment In: serial Out: serial Err: serial Net: eth0: ethernet@01c30000 starting USB... USB0: USB EHCI 1.00 USB1: USB OHCI 1.0 scanning bus 0 for devices... 2 USB Device(s)…

Hello I flashed EDK2 to SPI and I am able to enter the UEFI menu and change things, but it seems that u-boot takes over the boot process to actually boot the kernel. I also built a custom resolute image using the command below which I flashed to SDCard: Then I added a Grub entry for the SDCard image with this custom build but when I boot it it shows that u-boot is being used not UEFI. The default Grub boot is from emmc with an EFI FAT32, /boot EXT4, and / F2FS which is armbian trixie, and it works well - but with u-boot so I am trying to test how booting via pure UEFI will work so I can migrate to a pure UEFI se…

Hi, I've a rock-3a board with an NVMe device and a BTRFS filesystem using the whole disk ( no partitions ) I've seen some devices having BTRFS support in u-boot, so first thing I built the u-boot images using the extension: cat extensions/uboot-btrfs.sh # Enable BTRFS support in u-boot function post_config_uboot_target__enable_uboot_btrfs_support() { display_alert "u-boot for ${BOARD}/${BRANCH}" "u-boot: enable BTRFS filesystem support" "info" run_host_command_logged scripts/config --enable CONFIG_CMD_BTRFS } And patched the configuration of the board: git diff . diff --git a/config/boards/rock-3a.conf b/config/boards…

Now we have a preliminary UEFI edk2 port for rk3399 boards with (kind of) working video output. It is able to boot Windows and Linux with pure ACPI now, though the acpi is quite broken currently. Windbg used to debug NT kernel over uart is basically working. You are welcomed to get involved to do some testing or offer some help! Repo: https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3399/

Can someone tell me how to open terminal from keyboard Im using 5.20 legacy. It is giving an invalid format. So i need to virtually press h3disp

Hi all. @Salvador Liébana has made a preview Armbian image with many emulators preinstalled. Also Box86 with which you can play x86 Windows games and x86 Linux games. Also running some Windows programs is possible with this. Download Armbian Forged : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gQtgWz2pH2TX9Qs_bcDU9zn7w4edfcVf/view?fbclid=IwAR0SRSC8M_1_qm825n4Bd7bqjLmO30qTpFo73qQQga-TC_LRuc2BVFcGzKU Here my video about Windows games on the preview build. Here some videos of @Salvador Liébana himself.

Hi guys, Using Debian Jessie/armbian 4.5 here. Was today using tcpdump, tested out also tshark, and aparently the BPF rules are not working... (?) Is it just me, some kernel compiling, a bug, or am I missing something? I know for sure that in a very similar setup I have at work in Intel, I do not have this problem. This issue is present both with libpcap 1.7.4-1 and 1.6.2-2 As an example: rui@ruir:/etc$ sudo tcpdump -n not port 22 | egrep "22[ :]" tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes 14:50:34.559080 IP xx.xxx.254.104.22 > xxx.xxx.xxx.2.…

Hi, I am looking for an OS for the BPi M2 Berry. Has anyone good experiences to share? Thanks a lot in advance, Friedrich I tried several OS, flashed with rufus.io No satisfying attempt yet. Last try is this: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bananapi-bpi-m2-berry-new-image-release-armbian-bullseye/14451

Hello, Thanks for armbian on Banana PI, it is really wonderful compared to official releases. I installed the image "Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.904_Bananapim2ultra_trixie_current_6.18.29_minimal.img.xz" on my Banana PI M2 Berry (there is no image for this type), and all is working wonderfully well ... except rebooting or shutting down the Banana PI. When typing reboot, all services stop but the screen blocks on systemd-shutdown[1]: Rebooting. and it never reboots. It does the same for shutdown, stuck on same kind of message. Could you help me please ? Regards

Today I installed the armbian build "system" as suggested by @Igor in some threads (VirtualBox with Ubuntu 16.04 64Bit and a GitHub clone). After generating a armbian 5.38 (with old kernel, bad WiFi and USB unuseable for WiFi or Ethernet) for my OPi i96 I did see that also a entry is for the BananaPi M2 Ultra. I got the little brother - the BPi M2 Berry - so I created also a image for an sd-card At the fist try I did no connect to the board (I know video driver isnt there). Ethernet isnt recognized (no DHCP and no device). The first connect I did get with a USB-WLAN Dongle (RTL8192CUS from edimax) while using a USB-TTL-seria…

Hi all, i have the problem that a restored image not starts. Following situation: i copy the armbian 5.69 ubuntu bionic next desktop image on a 8GB sdcard. Linux system starts. I make an update/upgrade of all files (Kernel Version 4.19.13 is installed). After that i compile a new Kernel und install it (same kernel version but including an added module). Linux starts again with the new Kernel Version. Even after a reboot or Power on, Power Off the system is starting again. I make a backup of the sdcard with W32DiskImager, Roadkill´s Disk Image or USBit and save it under Windows. Then i copy the backuped image on a new sdcard. But this copy doesn´t b…

About 6 months ago I started a music project with the Raspberry PI Zero 2W. The project is a module to generate weird and wonderful drone music/sounds (example here) Because of the fact that it's nearly impossible to got hold of the Raspberry PI Zero 2W, I want to "port" the project to an alternative and available board with the same footprint and pinout; the BPI M2 Zero would be perfect. I have quite a challenge though; See image: The exact setup below with an Raspberry PI Zero 2W (O/S: Bullseye 11) and the install procedure described here, runs absolutely fine --- but now I want this setup to run on the BPI M2 Zero (O/S: "Armbian_20.05.1_Ba…

Thank you for the Armbian 5.66 images for the Banana Pi M2 Ultra. I would like to speak out a wish. Is it possible to add the kernel module uinput in the next revision? It would help me for using multimedia keys via bluetooth. Many Thanks in advance Markus

Hello, I will use the BPI M3 with armbian and a GPU support. With my understandig GPU is with the normal installation not activated. What is the way to actvate this? Many thanks for the support, André

Hi all, i just stumbled upon the Bana Pi M4 Zero while searching for an pi zero 2w alternative that features at least 5ghz network support. My use case is explained quickly, I want to use g_mass_storage to create an smart usb stick device. I can't use libcomposite, since old devices (and it's going to be used with old tech) don't support composite as far as I know. Is g_mass_storage supported by default or would I have to compile my own kernel/image?

Hello, BPi M5 freezes after a couple of hours running randomly. - use armbian Armbian 23.02 Bullseye ( 6.1.11) - same effects with Armbian Bookworm CLI kernels 6.1.x 6.2.x Now tried Sinovip Ubuntu (kernel 4.9.x ) aud it is running for days ! form their Homepage armbian from Sinovip page link also freezes... Why Armbian ( or Kernel 6.x ?) freezing . also found that USB power (for my data-USB-HDD) will be switched OFF during boot mostly . tried uhiubctl with permanant switch ON .. -> starts better - can ust USB-HDD in fstab ... but System freezes (include: USB no longer with power ) Is the…

Hello, I'm using Armbian_5.90_Bananapim2ultra_Debian_stretch_dev_5.1.12, which is offered as latest, but non supported download. I have used it a bit and installed OMV already, which seems to work fine (sata not tested yet), but I can not get wifi to work. wlan0 device does not exist. iwconfig says : root@bananapim2ultra:~# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. dummy0 no wireless extensions. ifconfig does not bring up wireless interface at all. If I try to modprobe bcmdhd, ap6210, ap6212, it says : modprobe: FATAL: Module bcmdhd not found in directory /lib/modules/5.1.12-sunxi I…

Hi, I'm wondering can I build the armbian for BPI-M3? I've tried this way: ./compile.sh BOARD=bananapim3 It fails on rootfs creation (I've tried to select CLI Xenial or Jessie): [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:137 ] [ error ] Debootstrap base system first stage failed Can it be fixed?

Hi guys, I have a BPI-M3, and wanted to roll my own build, given the current dissatisfaction with the builds provided by Sinovoip themselves. In any case, I have tested this locally, and it builds a bootable sd card, which works on UART only. It doesn't have working ethernet or WiFi, but at least you can interact with it over UART. Please feel free to review and comment on the script, and let me know if there are any issues running in your environment (ie, prerequisites that I have already, and make an invalid assumption that it is present). As per the comment inside the script, it will wipe the sdcard specified, and repartition with one partition whic…

new release date 8/21, boot goes thru first boot stuff ok, but when it starts the gui, hdmi dies and monitor shuts off, no ssh access either.Tried to dl xfce version, won't. Advise gheskett@shentel.net Earleir image worked fine until update this morning, is now stuck in uboot loop forever. Thanks

New bananapi M5, no net. initial boot and config failed, font missing characters would not allow me to edit networking entries. rebooted it with the power cord, started x by hand, Menu's totally different from 2 previous installs on rock64's. Finally found a terminal, and switched fonts in geany so now the keyboard is generally working. in geany, but not in armbian-config. I have edited the /etc/hosts file to setup my static address network, fixed resolv.conf and chattr +i it so nm can't destroy it. I have edited /etc/hostname but can't get it to to "take". ip a returns that eth0 is up but no ipv4 or ipv6 address can be seen …

After reading from June '16 until February '17 I think it makes sense to start at the last steps /improvements. In the 5.24 nightly the directory for networking looks like this (the network folder and the few below this branch): Looking back to my manual I deleted the VLAN file and created my own. Then I see here: ifenslave | ethtool | ip | several 'interfaces' and I was wondering does it need all that for a working VLAN with DSA=Distributed Switch Architecture ? ==================================================== reto@lamobo-r1:/etc/network$ ll total 60 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:34 ./ drwxr-xr-x 94 root root 4096 Feb 4 18:36 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2…

Hi, After an upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04, my bpi-r2 card does not restart or shutdown, still stooping all time. I send pings and still on and all ports are closed. I install but no effect. Any idea? thank you in advance

Hi All, as I just started with armbian on one of my R2s and I would like to share my learnings.... 1. Learning build own Image Why?: One of my requirements is to have DRBD Support which seems not to be part of standard build. At least it was gone with one of the Kernel Updates. So I setup a VM as described here: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/ to build a Image that supports DRBD. That was really simple. Build took 81min for me... Image Size 864MB Next goals are to bring this image running on the R2 on the eMMC. This worked with armbian-config After moving to eMMC Reboot issue is visible... Adapt hostname, local…

Anything involved with screen blanking /MUST/ be removed or disabled, on the bpim5, and it exists in so many places it took me 2 days of poking around to stop the no recovery except reboot if un-used for more than 15 minutes regardless of what it happens to be running at the time. When a blanker kicks in, the monitor powers down and the bpim5 goes inactive with only the red pwr led on steady, and nothing wakes it up except the reset button. These things use so little power that it doesn't bither me a bot to leave them running. I have an rpi4b running a big metal lathe that works as intended, with uptimes in years, this should be the same. It w…

http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-m3-new-image-debian-8-jessie-lite-bpi-m3-sd-emmc-img-2016-5-15/1698 Further sinovoip's hard work ? Great eW

Hi peoples, updating my old NAS (odroidH1 OMV) 1TB SSD New set-up: BPiM5 armbian bullseye - OMV samsung 2TB SSD installation up and running but... OMV or sudo fdisk -l cannot see new Samsung 2TB SSD (I have 2 of these, one will be back-up) I have connected ssd's via sata usb3.1 cable

It's important to believe blindly in numbers! At least when you try to be mislead as much as possible! Yesterday Michael Larabel from Phoronix fired up his usual set of passive benchmarking tests for the new Raspberry Pi 3 and he still uses rather questionable results for other boards to compare with (he claims that it would be sufficient to use a board with 'factory settings', run a set of synthetic benchmarks, don't analyse the results or even think about whether they could be wrong and treat the results as the truth) RPi 3 is 4 times faster than OPi PC and 6 times faster than OPi Plus? Really? If you just try to think about these graphs for a second it…

So I have managed to partially pull out one of the usb sockets on my tv box. The little plastic piece that holds the 4 metal pins has come out while I was pulling out a slightly deformed usb cable. The box still worked while it was on. After a reboot it is not coming on. The LEDs and VFD don't come on. It doesn't boot into armbian or android. Is it safe to say that it is dead? I think I am going to have to try and lift those metal pins. Because they are touching the metal usb housing. Perhaps that is causing a short-circuit somewhere. If all else fails I will try to desolder the whole usb slot. Update: I have bent …

I tried to build an bridged AP so that I can reach the Internet from a WiFi net spawned from the BananaPiPro. By this I followed the procedure from armbian-config (config.network.sh). After install the AP is shown in the login screen: WiFi AP: SSID: (BPi), channel 7 (2442 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2442 MHz When I try to connect from my mobile phone it either says "connecting without Internet". The output in syslog is then: 026-07-06T12:35:02.645970+02:00 bananapipro hostapd: wlan0: STA 22:50:7b:ac:e3:2e IEEE 802.11: associated 2026-07-06T12:35:02.690671+02:00 bananapipro hostapd: wlan0: STA 22:50:7b:ac:e3:2e RADIUS: …

Hello folks. Trying to set up bridged AP on armbian ZeroPI box. Configuring wlan for AP: cat /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf ssid=Wifi2 interface=wlan0 hw_mode=g channel=9 bridge=br0 driver=nl80211 logger_syslog=0 logger_syslog_level=0 wmm_enabled=0 wpa=2 preamble=1 wpa_psk=66eb31d2b48d19ba216f2e50c6831ee11be98e2fa3a8075e30b866f4a5ccda27 wpa_passphrase=12345678 wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP auth_algs=1 macaddr_acl=0 ### IEEE 802.11n #ieee80211n=1 #ht_capab= #country_code=US #ieee80211d=1 ### IEEE 802.11n ### IEEE 802.11a #hw_mode=a ### IEEE 802.11a…

Hi guys, I'm trying to share internet access from wireless Wlan0 to Ethernet Eth0 port to connect a SIP phone to the PBX asterisk server; nevertheless as the Asterisk server has source IP filtering, i have to establish a VPN tunnel with and openVPN server that has static public IP who already had a granted IP to access the Asterisk server. I'm using Armbian (buster) with Linux 5.9.14-sunxi on a OPI Zero plus H2, nevertheless, i guess this is not a hardware problem. I have no issues to install and connect openVPN what creates a new tap adapter tap0 with the assigned IP from server, once connected the Zero Plus starts accessing internet thru the tap adapter…

How can I make the Orange pi zero board with Ubuntu Bionic broadcast its hostname in the wifi network. When on my windows machine I use Advanced IP Scanner it finds it by the IP address, and its hostname does not appear. Thanks

The last chromium update has broken chromium, can anyone confirm? 71.0.3639.110-1 It works without a problem 72.0.3626.96-1 It does not start Firefox is still broken from what I see on the armv7 ... now chromium gets hiccups. 4.14.94 / 5.73

Could the maintainer please rebuild the package? The package linux-source-4.19.20-next-sunxi has the kernel source code in a tarball linux-source-4.19.20-sunxi.tar.xz, but that tarball has an error in it. It contains the following link: wireguard -> /home/igorp/samsung/cache/sources/wireguard/src This is an oops on Igor's part. Incidentally, I found a number of broken links, I'm not sure if these are all errors: /usr/src$ find -follow -type l -ls 142207 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Feb 9 11:01 ./net/wireguard -> /home/igorp/samsung/cache/sources/wireguard/src 634352 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root …

Hi guys, I am using Armbian 5.23 Jessie Desktop version with retrorange pi, in my orange pi pc, using the firefox on youtube i can watch videos in 480p more than it the video is bad doesnt run good, i can't watch netflix because the version firefox esr 45 don't have support to html 5, and to use facebook have a delay to load the pages, i think the firefix version default of armbian aren't so good, i tryed update the firefox but i didn't found none tutorial for it, so someone knows how i update the firefox or install the other version with support to html 5? or someone knows how a install Chromium? Is normal the videos of 720 don't run good ? Thanks.

Hello. I want to use btrfs as my rootfs (Armbian Ubuntu xenial 5.14 on M2) so I can use snapshots to roll back, freeze for backups, and to help manage changes. Btrfs is also good for error checking and can provide cheap easy data redundancy. How does booting work on my BPI M2? How can I change the target root partition? What has to be on /boot (ext4) and what can be on / (btrfs)? Along the same lines, is it possible to boot off of a USB device either directly or indirectly (Small SD with bootloader and /boot→ USB large root device)? Is there some documentation or good keywords to learn about how booting works in the ARM world?

hi, everyone I have a btrfs raid0 (metadate raid1;data raid0) on 4 HDD (2 * 1T + 2 * 500G): and newly get 2 new device 1T SSD + 4T HDD how about add these 2 device to raid0? what's better solution?

I think now for the 3rd time this happens. OS is Armbian Bookworm with vendor ,current, edge kernels installed. it turns out that with vendor kenel there is no issue. But fails for mainline based rockchip64 kernels, at least edge. I am not sure about current (6.6 or 6.12) as I am not really using those. I discovered first time with 6.13.0-rc* kernel, I assumed something else might have been wrong, so more or les ignored and rebooted with vendor kernel. That happened both with nanopi-r6c and rock-3a. I also already rebooted the rock-3a on a later occasion just t make sure problem would not occur. Yesterday was on nanopi-r6c with kernel 6.15.1-edge-rockchip64. I…

It appears that btrfs root images built with ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs are currently broken. E.g., attempting to boot with a btrfs root: Starting kernel ... Loading, please wait... starting version 232 Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.29.2 done. mount: Invalid argument done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... mount: No such file or dire…

Some days ago I installed the latest armbian updates to my armbian buster installation / openmediavault 5 on my odroid n2. After the installation of the following updates the cron jobs, which were setup on omv5 gui (not in crontab os) are not working anymore and are not started because of error: Here the update packages: armbian-config 20.08 armbian-firmware 20.08 linux-buster-root-legacy-odroidn2 20.08 linux-dtb-legacy-meson64 20.08 linux-image-legacy-meson64 20.08 linux-u-boot-odroidn2-legacy 20.08 Here the error message: /var/lib/openmediavault/cron.d/userdefined-ee6e5e4d-afef-449f-88fb-b6b4d0e4f1a5: 20: /etc/profile.d/ar…

busybox or busybox-static package is needed for update initramfs must run after kernel updates. The busybox-static package is missing on the Tinkerboard and Odroid C2 image (may be others). I filed a bug report here: [busybox or busybox-static is needed for update initramfs · Issue #1124 · armbian/build · GitHub](https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1124#issuecomment-427852788) Apparently it was not the right place. It got closed immedeatly: > The issue is closed for two reasons: it contains no valuable info and it's in the wrong place. I still consider this to be an important bug, so I leave a trace here.

Did anyone tested to build Armbian in Distro Box?

i want to build custom armbian image from git clone https://github.com/armbian/build ./compile.sh \ BOARD=orangepipcplus \ BRANCH=current \ BUILD_MINIMAL=yes \ BUILD_DESKTOP=no \ KERNEL_ONLY=no \ KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no \ EXTRAWIFI =yes \ BOOT_LOGO=yes \ COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=xz how can i disable u-boot message log and kernal log so no log or text will be displayed in hdmi screen i read somewhere that i need to add linux_silent or something like this

Is anyone else running their build environment in a VM? Specifically hosted by QEMU? I'm running into some strange things, and wondering if anyone has seen it. I'm running an Ubuntu (20.04) in a VM using QEMU as the hypervisor. Basically, the build generally works fine. However, as I add more features/processes to the customization script, I am starting to see segmentation faults. I see this with sudo and when I try to git pull something. This is what I get: qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped Segmentation fault (core dumped) I got here by dumping into a bash script from 'customize-image.sh', so it'…

Here I'll try to accumulate all the useful information I find on topic. # System config and build ## Build OS for building Armbian disto: Ubuntu 20.04.1, 4 x core i7, 2GB RAM; HDD usage so far: 29GB so I guess 32GB disk is bare minimum; My build script mkBoardImg.sh for Armbian: Spoiler #!/bin/bash ./compile.sh CLEAN_LEVEL="images,debs,make,oldcache" \ BOARD="wandboard-srv" BRANCH="dev" \ KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" \ BUILD_DESKTOP="no" BUILD_MINIMAL="yes" RELEASE="focal" \ Kernel configs are stored in /srv/kern/v1.0.conf, it's easier to save/lo…

Tried to build making a new git clone of the repository. So far tried to test by building orangepipcplus and orangepiplus2e, both stop in the screen 'Choose image type'. Options selected for both are 'Os image for installation to SD card', 'vendor provided / legacy ..) kernel, 'Debian 8 jessie', 'Image with desktop'environment'. Also, another try to build for nanopineo stopped in the same place. It seems that today's commits (29/12/2016) got something to do with this, I was able to generate images up to yesterday. @Igor, @zador.blood.stained can you please let me know if it works ok with you after today's commits?

Hello, I'll like to build my own kernel, mostly to learn more about Linux on ARM. The device I have is RK3399 based (Nanopi M4v2). Can I use the mainline kernel or are some parches needed? Where can I get the correct DTS? Is there any guide on how to do this? I'm not unfamiliar on how to build a custom kernel, but that was on x86/x64. ARM is a very different animal.

latest version build orange-pi-pc-plus with some ld error: ./compile.sh docker /root/armbian/cache/toolchain/gcc-arm-8.3-2019.03-x86_64-arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: fs/sync.o:(___ksymtab_gpl+__sync_filesystem+0x0): undefined reference to `__sync_filesystem' make: *** [Makefile:1185: vmlinux] Error 1 Displaying message: Compiling current kernel 5.15.37 info Displaying message: Compiler version arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc 8.3.0 info Displaying message: Using kernel config provided by user userpatches/linux-sunxi-current.config info Displaying message: Compressing sources for the linux-source package Displayi…

Hi, all: I wonder if there is a manual to DIRECTLY build Linux Kernel (Say, current version 5.0.9) against any board, as far as uname -a is known ? For instance, current Armbian for Banana Pi M3 is of the following uname -a value: sky@bananapim3:~/Downloads/sunxi$ uname -a Linux bananapim3 4.19.25-sunxi #5.78 SMP Mon Apr 8 07:46:22 CEST 2019 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux Anyway, I'm trying to test it out... Cheers Pei

hi, i have a problem that i set a custom kernel configuration where no usb wifi module is selected to build with the kernel, and whatever i do the kernel module is still builded. i checked the generated config file and the module was properly marked not to build. probably i don't do right some basic thing, but i'm out of ideas. any suggestion? thanks

install https://github.com/emmercm/rpi-rtl8812au error? $ sudo make make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.10.60-sunxi/build M=/sr/src/rtl8812au-f1bd10b modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/5.10.60-sunxi/build' make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'modules'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/5.10.60-sunxi/build' make: *** [Makefile:1086: modules] Error 2

Have a nice day! Could you tell me how to build a linux-tools package for my OS? Best regards.

I am trying to build a Wheezy image for the Odroid XU4, everything seemingly compiles okay it get to building and compressing the image and I get an error from the tools.sh file. Here is my output log. Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release xenial info Displaying message: Downloading toolchain gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-x86_64_arm-linux-gnueabi info Displaying message: Verifying Displaying message: Extracting Displaying message: Download complete info ## BUILD SCRIPT ENVIRONMENT Version: db2129e7177f2b9ec17f6e4584b13303427645c9 ## BUILD CONFIGURATION Build target: Board: odroidxu4 Branch: next Kernel configuration: Reposit…

Hello I am trying to build a driver for a PineCube. The driver is Cedar_Ve.ko. Unfortnately I'm running in to problems either building the driver or deploying it. I have tried 3 approaches, but not work. 1) I downloaded the source for the kerenl 5.10.6 which I'm using from here: https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/armbian-apt/pool/main/l/linux-source-5.10.60-current-sunxi/ and built it using the following commands: make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- sunxi_defconfig make LOCALVERSION="-sunxi" ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- zImage modules dtbs I then cloned the source for the Cedar driver from here https://github.com/uboborov/sunxi-…

Hello everyone, I'm new user about SBC and armbian. I recently purchased this SBC - purple-pi-oh (rk3566, Number/type of interfaces similar to Raspberry Pi), It has opened up its linux sdk and more. Because its default image version is older, and does not support k3s, cilium, etc (I'm a k8s ops), so I want to use armbian with it. I first directly downloaded and tried all rk3566/3568 images of other SBCs, such as station m2/station p2/Bananapir2pro, etc., and the most pleasant surprise was that using the station m2 image, purple pi oh almost works (can run through the installation process, mouse/keyboard/hdmi monitor works fine), t…

Hello everyone, I am trying to build a custom image of Armbian for the Radxa CM3, but I'm a little confused with how to proceed. I thought if I cloned the repo I could modify a similar board configuration file (such as rock-3a.conf) by renaming a copy as radxa-cm3.conf and changing BOOT_FDT_FILE to use my own device tree, but this is where I got lost. I'm not sure where to put the device tree in the cloned repo so that it gets used during the build process. I'm also not sure if I would need to change BOOTCONFIG as well, and if so where to find the file to modify. Any and all advice to point me in the right direction is appreciated! Thanks! …

Hello, dear armbian community. I am using Orange Pi 5 plus, and I want to use kernel-6.16-5-edge-rockchip64 by armbian, as works much better than actual mainline (I have broken HDMI sound, buggy OpenGL, no power profiles) I, however, want to build kernel for different distro (OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, aka binpkg-rpm). Where do I get kernel sources to do this? (And is it the right place to ask this question?)

Hi, I'm trying to build armbian with the tutorial https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/#what-do-i-need but I get this error: ~/git/others/armbian/build$ ./compile.sh [🚸] Docker is installed, but not usable [ can't use Docker; check your Docker config / groups / etc ] [💥] Problem detected [ Docker installed but not usable ] [💥] Exiting in 10 seconds [ Press <Ctrl-C> to abort, <Enter> to ignore and continue ] Counting down: 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... 0... [💥] error! [ Exiting due to 'Docker installed but not usable' ] [💥] Exiting with error 43 [ at /home/eloy/g…

Dear Community, I want to build a custom FirmWare for Banana Pi M2 Berry, im currently using the BPI-M2-Ultra Firmware, cuz no BPI-M2-Berry FirmWare exist. What do I need for building for my SBC(BPI-M2-Berry) ? I want to use my SBC as a LTE-Router/ Mesh-Repeater and want to pre-install some necessary packages, the device need. I want to build a Dashboard for Administrate the Device. Maybe I'll use electron + reactjs, or would it be better to use php for it? Greetz BlackLeakz

according to https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Advanced-Features/#how-to-build-a-wireless-driver i tried "Install kernel headers" but /usr/src/ is still empty, using latest armbian stretch on a olimex allwiner a33 board (lime2) how am i able to get the current kernel header files for my armbian? yours, xeniter

We are trying to compile a modified kernel module for this version of Armbian downloaded in October When running it reports: $cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=orangepizero BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero" BOARDFAMILY=sun8i BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=ba704f4740 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=csc INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=zImage FORCE_BOOTSCRIPT_UPDATE= VENDOR=Armbian BOOTSCRIPT_FORCE_UPDATE="no" BOOTSCRIPT_DST="boot.cmd" VERSION=23.8.3 REVISION=23.8.3 BRANCH=current uname -a Linux orangepizero 6.1.53-current-sunxi #3 SMP…

I'm trying to build the linux-tools binaries from the kernel using the armbian build. I ran the ./compile.sh script and it built the image, but I only want the linux-tools binaries to copy over. I'm not sure how to get it to build them, when I go into the kernel tools folder and do "make all" it builds the binaries for x64 instead of for arm64. I looked through the kernel config file when running ./compile.sh script but can't find an option to build the linux-tools. I'm not sure how to add it so that they are built for the target system arm64.

So I'm fairly new to Armbian (although I have already managed to successfully create a custom build with most of what I need). Sadly, I've very much hit a blocker. I really need to use linux-tools/perf on an RK3588 board with a vendor kernel (I'm using the Mali OpenCL, and the ARM packages are mostly locked) and I need to do some performance tuning. I cannot figure out how to get these tools deployed. 1. There are no linux-tools packages build -- which is fair enough, I'm probably in a minority. Some parts of the tools directories are culled during a cleaning process for the headers, I can see that 2. I am happy to copy over the kernel source and build o…

I was hoping to get some idea if it would be possible to build Armbian for the ODroid OGU (S922X, similar to N2+) using a different Kernel. Specifically, using the version from JelOS (https://github.com/JustEnoughLinuxOS/distribution) who have made really good progress for this specific device. I've been building JelOS and modifying packages etc, but would prefer to use Armbian if possible. Any help appreciated.

I'm not sure if anyone is interested in a very small distro without gcc, but I spent some time the last week using buildroot and armbian's source files to create a 3.4.112-rt image for the nanopi neo. It is going to be part of a realtime audio project (think synth or guitar pedal) that I'm working on and it demands a quick boot, among other things. There is also a mainline version, but it doesn't have all the fixings you folks like, so I don't know if you'd want to use that. You can find the build scripts and config files on my github. I'll be posting the legacy image in a zip file tonight, once I verify everything is reproducible. I…

https://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt/pool/bullseye-utils/h/htop/ Nothing there. Just running basic ... apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ... upon initial install, and it fails with "failed to fetch" (404) from whatever apt.armbian.com mirror it selects (of 2 or 3 observed). Held it back with apt-mark, removed it, and built from source using deb-src. Doesn't seem to be any problems or issues running htop built from deb-src, so, not sure why its needed in the Armbian source repositories ???

Hi I am looking for the bullseye image for odroid hc4. Is there an archived version? It's needed for OMV as it is incompatible with newer versions: https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv6:armbian_bullseye_install Appreciate any help Alex

Hey folks, I want to set up my banana pi completely new with the Debian Bullseye image on armbian.com. But right now the image is marked as "unstable". Do I have to do the whole setup again when it is marked as "stable" in the near future or does it upgrade automatically (via apt-get)? Thanks for your support.

Armbian Buster on Rock Pi 4 longer has libgfortran3 library. Other versions of Buster do have it. Has it been superseded or just went missing? The ham radio weak signal programs use a lot of fortran modules. Thanks Frank

Hello! I am just trying to set up Armbian Buster on my Banana Pi and I am experiencing a strange problem with the keyboard settings: I choose de-UTF8 for system wide locale and system wide language, I set the keyboard to German, but still I couldn't type umlaute (öäü). If I typed "ä", nothing happens. If I typed "ü", it retrieved commands from the bash history, that I typed in earlier. If I typed ö", the input line displayed (arg: 6) After long search I finally found a kind of solution: if I uncomment this line in /etc/inputrc: # set convert-meta off I can type "öäü", but now I also can delete as many characters from …

Hello, I'm planning to replace my old (but very good) Banana PI (the first model, it should be called M1 if I remember). I basically use it as my personal cloud server, for some remote daily backups and for messing things up Now I'd like to replace it with something newer and maybe I'll use the Banana just for experimental purpose. So I searched the internet but can't find something that really fits my needs, maybe somebody with more knowledge than me can give me an advice. It should have, at least: - SATA (which is a feature I can't find in many boards ) - Gigabit Ethernet (a must) - USB 3 (at least 1 port) - 1 GB of RAM (2 are b…

Hi all, I have upgraded an Odroid C2 setup to C4, and encountered some strange issues. The SPI interface of C2 is bit banging, while the C4 offers "real" hardware support for SPI. I use a current kernel (5.10.102) with Bullseye. I use two SPI /CS lines, while one SPI controller takes care of "user" interaction with the LatticeSemi MachXO2 FPGA on the addon board. The other SPI controller is used to reflash the MachXO2 by the SPI. On the C2, everything works fine (while slow, due to bitbanging). On the C4, the same code on Odroid and FPGA fails - but only on the reflashing interface, not the user interface. The user int…

I just want to share what I examined yesterday... Background: I used OPi one to output HDMI video when a button is pressed. It has an attached fan, a remote shutdown button and a remote switch to turn power off-on (OPi is hidden and operated through these buttons). It worked on breadboard, produced 2 working examples, tested the first two with a 24h test. All fine... Problem: On a third installation after the "circuits" are built, I made a last test. HDMI output had problems Sound comes and goes with a hick-up... Debugging: Checked wiring, checked with other video, checked with other OPi etc. Nada... The problem persiste…

Hello i am french user of Orange Pi Zero. I am looking to compile a version of caliber more resent than that of deposits. A priori git sources are not for arm. I found a recipe on arch linux arm here. Someone will know the suitable for Armbian? thank you very much https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/arm/calibre

Hi, I have read all topics around about gc2035 module. but my problem is a little different. I have nothing in dmesg when I try dmesg: root@OrangePI:/# dmesg | grep gc2035 root@OrangePI:/# the other guys at least get error when trying dmesg | grep gc2035 I am using orangepi-2g-iot with Armbian_5.27_Orangepi2g-iot_Debian_jessie_default_3.10.62 when I try modprobe gc2035 I have: modprobe: FATAL: Module gc2035 not found. I have tried latest raspbian for orangepi 2g-iot and also OrangePi_2G-IOT_Ubuntu but they all have the same problem in modprobe. in ubuntu there is an option in the begining to install driver for camera module but when I try …

Hello Everyone! I'm currently working on a nano pi m4b with a rockchip 3399 processor on it. I need to use an USB camera for my application but I am experiencing some issues that have been really hard to track down lately. First of all I'm using a 5 mega pixels camera with a OV5640 CMOS sensor and I experience some glitches with the image while live streaming. Besides that, I can only get an image while connected to USB 2.0, the 3.0 gives me a black screen with sporadic glitched frames. I'm running Linux 4.4.213-rk3399 on it and here are the dmesg dump logs I'm geting. Has anyone else had this kind of issue? [Feb24 19:13] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ +0.00000…

Hi, all. My Armbian is the Armbian 21.11.0-trunk Focal. and the CPU is Rockchip RK3399. The board is nanopi-r4s. ``` Welcome to Armbian 21.11.0-trunk Focal with Linux 5.10.73-rockchip64 No end-user support: built from trunk System load: 2% Up time: 22 days 19:38 Memory usage: 8% of 3.77G Zram usage: 3% of 1.89G IP: 192.168.100.1 192.168.1.3 CPU temp: 41°C Usage of /: 11% of 115G [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] 0 updates can be applied immediately. Last login: Tue Dec 7 17:09:13 2021 from 127.0.0.1 ``` I w…

Hye guys. One question regarding the above topic Can I make a swap space to support the RAM activity?

I'm a complete novice in the area of Linux on phones. I want to use Linux on my oneplus 8t and I am excited to find that armbian has official support for this. But before I install armbian on my phone, I am wondering if I can restore to android after I install armbian. I have another question which may be a bit offtopic: how hard is it to add support for oneplus 8t to Mobile NixOS? Thanks in advance.

I have read the other thread about this. If that one would not be closed I would have posted in there. My boottime is around 45 seconds and I would like to have it (much) faster. I run the V 20.11.06 Buster current 5.9.14 on two RockPi's 4 A with uBoot, NVME and no SD-card. I bought the TTL-Cable and it gives a lot, but the pause I am complaining about is entierly after all of that. The pause comes when minicom says "Rockpi4 Login:". The RockPi seems still to be "booting", black screen on and of, NVME Led blinking burst from time to time (no pattern), for ~15 seconds. Then I get the red Logo with the circling dots, they circle 7-8 times and only the…

CAN I USE ORANGE PI PLUS 2 images(OS) on ORANGE PI PLUS 2E HI, I need help can i use opi plus 2 images on my opi plus 2e like kali linux and fedora. i would have asaked the same question on opi forum but they have not approved my registration yet. if anyone can help me i'll be much obliged. THANKS.

Hi everyone. I bought an ov5640 camera for my Nanopi Duo2. As their wiki clearly showed ov5640 plug and play, I thought I am facing no problems. That's not the case. Armbian seems not to support ov5640 by defualt. My problem: OV5640 do not work on nanopi duo2 with latest armbian. What did I try: I searched for answers online, but they are old (years ago), saying I have to edit some dts files to get the cam work. I tried some of them, then I messed up my system and have to re-flash the sd card again and again. I guess they might won't apply to the latest image. I wonder: Is the camera ov5640 on Nanopi Duo…

So I've had an odroid C2 running Armbian for the past couple of years without a hitch. Today however, when I try to login to my box either remotely or directly, I'm greeted with a login screen. On this box consists of 4 accounts (all mine) and I've set my primary account to automatically login when booted (never needed a password). Yet still, I'm greeted with the login screen. I try to login under my other accounts using my password, but even then, screen goes black for a second, then back to login screen. I really need some help here. As I said, I've been running Armbian flawlessly up until this point, now all of a sudden I can't even login to any of my accou…