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Dear all. After a update/upgrade and dist-upgrade.. a few weeks a go i think there is something going wrong on my Xu4 After every update and upgrade i still get the same errors: root@odroidxu4:~# sudo apt-get update Err:1 http://apt.armbian.com xenial InRelease Could not resolve 'apt.armbian.com' Err:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com' Err:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com…

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Dombo 71

January 21, 20188 yr

I tried to follow below guide, but I wasnt able to install as the model isn't listed in it. I tried cups and gutenprint but even when the printer was added to cups dashboard, but when I send "Print Test" then nothing prints out. What options do I have here ?

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Root Tempy

May 26, 20251 yr

Hi, I am running Armbian on four HardKernel HC2's and everything is working perfectly. The four SBC's are running a Moosefs cluster running Ubuntu 18.04 and Armbian 5.85, and this leads to my questions: I am trying to decide whether to upgrade as apt is proposing moving to 5.89 The change log does not currently list 5.89 and shows 5.87 as the newest. Am I missing something? When I look at previous change logs it is difficult to decipher which fixes impact the HC2/HC1/XU4. Is there an easy way to tell? How do you decide when to upgrade? Is it even worth upgrading when running more mature boards like this one? My boards run insi…

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jl_678

July 9, 20197 yr

Hi team, just wanted to know how come this was not included in this release and could someone provide the details to download the most stable version of Chrominum for this please ?

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Igor

May 3, 20242 yr

I am trying to set up serial communications over the CON10 connector (UART0 pins 4,5,6,8) to another board (BeagleBone Black) to transmit data parsed as strings between the boards. Based on this link, this should correspond to /dev/ttySAC0. I have been unsuccessful in achieving communication via these pins and device node. In using setserial to probe the port settings, I was concerned about the following output: setserial /dev/ttySAC0 /dev/ttySAC0, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0000, IRQ 83 In using dmesg to probe for more information, I found an identifier for SAC0: dmesg | egrep -i 'serial|tty' [ 1.020896] [c4] 12c00000.serial: ttySAC0 at MMIO 0x12…

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r1ch1er1ch706

November 16, 20178 yr

Hello, I wanna test Armbian x86 on virtual machine. Is possible to convert its img file to some format (vdi or vmdk) and boot on Virtualbox? I made a attempt but it wont boot.. VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw --format VDI armbian.img ambian.vdi Thx a lot

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BOFFBOY

February 12, 20242 yr

Hi The problem with Odroid HC1 is that BIG cores cannot go higher than 1.50Ghz and LITTLE cores cannot go higher than 900Mhz! Why is the CPU so throttled now? This sbc can and could work at higher clock speeds without any problems. Forcing 2Ghz and 1.50Ghz via cpupower does not help... Bullseye A 23.8.27 K 6.6.31

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jshc1

June 4, 20242 yr

Fresh-builded armbian image, Helios4. Try to enter armbian-config → system → cpu root@helios4:~# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)" ID=ubuntu ID_LIKE=debian PRETTY_NAME="Armbian 21.08.0-trunk Hirsute" VERSION_ID="21.04" HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/" SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" VERSION_CODENAME=hirsute UBUNTU_CODENAME=hirsute

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iav

June 15, 20215 yr

This is with armbian 22.02 bullseye. phross@helios4:~$ uname -a Linux helios4 5.15.26-mvebu #trunk.0002 SMP Thu Mar 3 10:15:53 UTC 2022 armv7l GNU/Linux phross@helios4:~$ cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 008: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to cpufreq@vger.kernel.org, please. analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU maximum transition latency: 0.00 ms. analyzing CPU 1: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU maximum transition latency: 0.00 ms. I remember reading discussions about issues with cpufreq patches causing issues on armada-38x socs. Is the cpufreq driver for armada-38…

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Heisath

May 22, 20224 yr

Hello, i am using an Odroid Xu4 in an open Access environment and i want to disable USB Keyboards. I already tried the following: Create a file called, e.g., usbhid.conf in /etc/modprobe.d/ and add the following line: blacklist usbhid Then re-generate your initramfs with: update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r) or, if you want to rebuild the initramfs for all installed kernel versions: update-initramfs -u -k all After you reboot, usbhid.ko will be prevented from loading. But it doesn't work for me. I Also get an Error while trying to update initramfs dirtydroid@odroidxu4:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all ln: failed to create hard link …

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xu4armbianuser

March 2, 20179 yr

Hi all, I got my helios4 sometimes in 2019 and it was one of the best purchases I ever made. It has served and was solid as a rock. Unfortunately all that ended couple of days ago when I noticed the Helios was not powering up properly, think it was the power supply not connected well (because I just recently changed the location) I removed and fitted the PSU a couple of times, I could see the led light come on but still it would not boot properly. By the time I found out what the real problem is things had gone worse, the reason for the incomplete boot was the SD card has been removed. Unfortunately, it seems my constant removing and refitting the PSU to …

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TRS-80

March 31, 20224 yr

Hello ! I'm trying to build my custom Armbian image for a Raspberry Pi. When I build it with these settings, I get a rolling release, which I don't want. compile.sh BRANCH=current BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes DISABLE_IPV6=true INCLUDE_HOME_DIR=yes KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no NETWORKING_STACK=network-manager RELEASE=trixie EXPERT=yes BOARD=rpi4b But when I boot with the official armbian minimal image (Armbian_25.8.1_Rpi4b_trixie_current_6.12.41_minimal.img) It's not on the rolling release. Do I miss a setting ? edit: I've tried with building the image on the main and the v25.08 branch.

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robertoj

September 8, 20251 yr

I've flashed: Armbian_25.2.0-trunk.193_Odroidxu4_trixie_current_6.6.65_minimal.img to my eMMC. It boots fine, but after a "armbian-upgrade" it will give a kernel panic upon reboot. I think the new kernel is borked.

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MichaIng

January 9, 20251 yr

Just doing maintenance tonight on my boxen, regular `apt upgrade && apt update` on ODROID-XU4 and I noticed Debian upgraded to latest kernel (5.8 or whatever). I go look in boot and notice `uInitrd' is pointing at the new Debian version (instead of Armbian version): drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 15 19:53 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Nov 15 19:50 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Nov 15 19:28 armbianEnv.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1536 Jun 4 15:24 armbian_first_run.txt.template -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38518 Jun 4 15:24 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4882 Jun 4 15:24 boot-desktop.png -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12479 Jun 4 …

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TRS-80

November 17, 20205 yr

I have a `.dts` file built on Raspberry Pi OS for Raspberry Pi 5, that has following section allowing to provide options to both userspace `dtoverlay` and as parameters in `/boot/firmware/config.txt`: __overrides__ { rotation = <&cam_node>,"rotation:0"; orientation = <&cam_node>,"orientation:0"; media-controller = <&csi>,"brcm,media-controller?"; cam0 = <&i2c_frag>, "target:0=",<&i2c_csi_dsi0>, <&csi_frag>, "target:0=",<&csi0>, <&cam_node>, "VIN-supply:0=",<&cam0_reg>; }; Then following use: sudo dtoverlay -v ovaone cam0=on Overrides proper…

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Michał Fita

August 6, 20242 yr

So I have this issue with the XU4, where at times when I start device from the main power button, it doesn't seem to properly connect to the LAN, in such a way that I cannot ssh to it, nor ping it. Since the device is headless, and I can't control it through LAN, I have no way of looking at dmesg during the problematic boots. Are there specific logs I could look at to diagnose this problem?

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Technicavolous

September 10, 20188 yr

Hey, the last time my Helios4's PSU blew I suspect was due to a power overload, with the PSU not being able to deal with all 4 HDDs doing active work (this also killed one of the HDDs in my array). Based on the system log, it looked like the system was doing a regular integrity checks on all 4 HDDs at once (!). I would like to either disable the integrity check altogether, or more ideally, spread it out. I have two RAID-1 arrays, and there is no reason for all four drives to be checked simultaneously. For example, I can check one of the arrays (two HDDs) and then once that is done, the second array (the other two HDDs) after. Does anyone know where…

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djurny

October 3, 20224 yr

Got notice that my Helios 4 is on it's way. Yay! But I have a question that I don't see here. I followed the topic of creating, I believe it was a raid 10 with four disks, and I think that's where I want to end up, but I only have two drives right now. Can I go ahead and start with just the two, and easily and the other two at a later date? Or would I be better off waiting until I can get the other two drives?

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Jens Bauer

February 2, 20188 yr

Hello everybody, I'm very new to the topic 'armbian' and yet excited. Just played with the BananaPi and downloaded the distro from the first link I got (light/mainline I think). Now I have bought an Odroid XU4 and want to build a Home-Server / NAS with it, wondering which distro to choose. Of course without the heavy-load desktop, but (xenial) next oder default? Thank you. Regards AXEL

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Technicavolous

April 8, 20188 yr

Hi Everyone, I'm considering getting an ODROID-HC1 to use as a simple NAS. Is this a good idea? (Yes, some of you will have seen my very similar post about the Espressobin!) My requirements are quite basic; a single SATA SSD and a single ethernet port, running NFS and Samba. I do need a newish version of Samba (required to support "Time Machine" backup from my Mac) which I believe is in Debian Buster but not in Stretch. I've been a Debian user for decades; I guess I might be happier if the hardware supplier provided a Debian image, but it's great that Armbian is available. I note that Armbian Buster for this board is described as "Testing"; should I wait for a bit…

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Igor

March 24, 20206 yr

Hi guys, this is something that I would like to achieve if feasible. I remember that other OS like "RetroPie Arena" support GPU acceleration, thanks. Any documentation to read? Thanks! 🙏

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igagis

April 21, 20251 yr

Dear all.problem with my Xu4My router is a bit buggy..[ i think or my isp ]When my isp has a hick in the wan lineMy Xu4 does not automatic reconnect with my lanIs there a option to auto reconnect when there is a connection lose Now i reboot the xu4 manually and then is working everything fine'I use the latest armbian on my Xu4

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tkaiser

November 2, 20178 yr

For marvell-mvebu build DRBD is not supported, the module is missing in either current and edge config a grep of CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DRBD in build/config/kernel from the git build repo shows that most boards have DRBD compiled as module except some few exceptions. One of these few exception is mvebu (ClearFog Base/Pro, ESPRESSObin, Helios 4). I don't understand why. DRBD is a very nice and secure block device which provides network block replication (raid over network), and it is widely used. DRDB compile and work flawlessly on helios4 with the mvebu kernel. But we are obliged to compile the kernel or only the module, which is somewhat painful. As I have …

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Heisath

November 5, 20223 yr

A display connected to the DSI connector of Raspberry Pi 5 does not work when using Armbian. However, the display works perfectly when using the Raspberry OS. My OS image is: Armbian_25.2.2_Rpi4b_bookworm_current_6.12.15_cinnamon_desktop Dmesg reveals the following information: [ 13.283052] mipi-dsi 1f00118000.dsi.0: deferred probe pending: mipi-dsi: supplier 2.reg_bridge not ready [ 13.283060] platform 1.panel_disp: deferred probe pending: platform: wait for supplier /axi/pcie@120000/rp1/i2c@88000/reg_display@45 This forum post suggests, that the problem is due to the missing I2C driver "CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM": http…

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CaWeissWz

September 12, 20251 yr

I just got a new XU4 and I tried to run both the official ubuntu 18.04 image with linux 4.14 and the armbian stretch 4.14 image (both minimal). I can hear a constant electrical squeaky noise (similar to noise from certain power supplies, usb chargers, etc) coming from the XU4 when running Armbian. The same noise is not present in the Ubuntu image. This occurs immediately after first boot (no additional configuration) and is constantly there. This is especially noticeable when the fan is off. Has anyone experienced this before?

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IBuyUndervaluedMemes

May 2, 20197 yr

Is it possible to install the x86 version in the RockPIX emmc? The nand-sata-install command doesn't solve it. Thank you

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Igor

March 9, 20233 yr

Estou tentando gerar uma imagem Qemu-uefi-x86 usando a seguinte linha: ./compile.sh BOARD=qemu-uefi-x86 BRANCH=current KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ARCH=x86_64 BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_BTF=no RELEASE=jammy Ao final do processo, recebo o seguinte erro. Alguém pode me ajudar? Estava gerando corretamente e, de repente, parou. Ign:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease [🔨] Erro:1 https://github.armbian.com/configng estável InRelease [🔨Erro do sistema ao resolver 'github.armbian.com:https' - getaddrinfo (16: Dispositivo ou recurso ocupado) [🔨] Erro:2 https://apt.armbian.com jammy InRe…

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Werner

April 7Apr 7

Hi, I froze kernel to Linux 4.14.222-odroidxu4 as my Odroid-HC1 couldn't be sometime reach with ssh when updating kernel. I get that after reboot and doing apt update, N: Ignoring file '02-armbian-periodic.distrib' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension This file is apparently created again as I remove it each time. Laurent

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emk2203

October 17, 20214 yr

Hi All , I try to install Armbian_22.08.7_Uefi-x86_bullseye_current_5.15.69_gnome_desktop.img.xz and using rufus to create bootable flashdisk to install on mini pc z83 but found the result as error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0' , is anyone here know what is the problem and what should I do? Thx in advance

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t3l3m4k0

November 30, 20223 yr

I'm having a problem with my Raspberry Pi 5, which I describe below. I have a DVR connected to it via Ethernet. If I connect both at the same time, dmesg reports a failure and I can't ping the DVR to establish a connection; I have to run `ifconfig eth0 down` and `ifconfig eth0 up`. Can anyone help or know if there's a bug in the kernel version? I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. jammy root:~# dmesg | grep eth0 [ 1.312167] macb 1f00100000.ethernet eth0: Cadence GEM rev 0x00070109 at 0x1f00100000 irq 108 (2c:cf:67:81:d6:2a) [ 3.237493] systemd[1]: Found device /sys/subsystem/net/devices/eth0. [ 3.453483] systemd[1]: Started ifup for eth0. …

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Guilherme

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The UN-official, UN-supported, UN-timely, UN-derrated... Exynos 5422 MEDIA TESTING SCRIPT Yes, the script is somewhat untimely, because it comes when including kernel 4.14 in Armbian next images is getting troublesome. And underrated, because this old SoC seems to be losing the focus of attention in favor of some more modern powerful ones. But it is still a great SoC, and it is worth trying to get the best out of it. The script will provide the installation of all the libraries and system configurations necessary for GPU accelerated X desktop, Chromium WebGL,VPU decoding/encoding acceleration through MFC, and GLES 3.1 / OpenCL 1.1 support. …

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Stylxd

April 6, 20206 yr

How To Fix the “Aw, Snap!” Error. Nothing help

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Igor

July 17Jul 17

Upon reading the content of RPi5 about 6.12 from this and this , I was under the impression that it's okay to upgrade the Armbian 24.11 based NextCloudPi to a 6.12 kernel. Well, I was wrong and the RPi5 current stuck in the RPi Logo on a black page. Net address seems to be 0.0.0.0. I could really use some advice on how to restore this, perhaps some `chroot` method from another Linux machine to get the right kernel package and intramfs. Here are the steps that got me to the current situation. Maybe a hint on how to restore? 1. Mark `raspi-firmware`, like what was recommended in 1st post. sudo apt-mark hold raspi-firmware [sudo] passwo…

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The Tall Man

September 27, 20251 yr

Seeing the SOC go upto 80-90C, is there any fan mod or way to reduce temps? for now, added a external fan, removed the case, temps are around 50 Running OMV6 on bullseye

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Heisath

November 2, 20232 yr

After installing armbian bookworm the fans are always at maximum. Here is how I solved. Trying to figure out what is not working I try to run the related service systemctl start fancontrol.service but it does not start. So I check the latest errors: systemctl status fancontrol.service I obtain Failed ...fancontrol.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/fancontrol so, fancontrol is simply not there and apt can't find it for installation. I took the old sd card and copied the fancontrol to /usr/sbin/ Than make it executable with: chmod +x /usr/sbin/fancontrol than systemctl start fancontrol.service systemc…

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9a3eedi

December 22, 20241 yr

After upgrade to version 5.15.72, fancontrol service fails to start, due to missing /dev/fan-j17 There is some information in dmesg: pwm-fan j17-pwm: error -EBUSY: Could not get PWM

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alchemist

October 15, 20241 yr

Anyone know why it's not supported out of the box? The wiki provides a patch but does not mention why it's not upstream or in Armbian. The bus-width being 4 is also quite suspect. All the other Armada 38x devices have it at 8. Armada 37x ones have it at 4.

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m4110c

September 9, 20215 yr

Hardware H264 encoding on the F3 is failing with a firmware binary error. ffmpeg command ffmpeg -y -v 99 -f lavfi -i testsrc -pix_fmt nv12 -g 15 -c:v h264_v4l2m2m out.264 dmesg error [ 4834.438234] MVX if: Failed to load firmware binary. filename=linlon-v52_v76-80-2/h264enc.fwb. [ 4834.450002] MVX if: Firmware binary was loaded with error. [ 4834.450020] MVX session: ffffffd905a1a0f8 send event error. error=-22 ffmpeg Gets some way into initialising. It detects the Linlon H264 encoder, checks images are NV12 format, but then fail with this error [h264_v4l2m2m @ 0x2abf834870] Failed to set gop size: Invalid argument …

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Werner

April 27, 20251 yr

Am getting very interested in Armbian for a classroom server project and am experiencing an odd problem. Certain web pages in Firefox will cause the hd to 'click' loudly, then the desktop icon disappears and the whole system locks up for about 20 seconds until the desktop icon reappears then everything seems fine again. I have not been able to pin down what is happening because it's inconsistent which pages cause the problem. (viewing the preview for this post caused it to happen.) Might go an hour, might happen several times in a few minutes. Right now my plan is to start from scratch a new Armbian install because I did to some messing…

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wildcat_paris

July 4, 201610 yr

Hello, Version 5.4.0-odroidxu4 #19.11.3.342 If I use this command: sudo swapoff -a sudo swapon -a Swap switch off, but not on again. Only after reboot, swap is on again. regards ThomasD

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Igor

December 24, 20196 yr

As the title states I already have software raid setup on my NAS. I'm currently running OMV 4 and I'd like to do a fresh install of the latest Debian image and OMV 5. I do not want to lose my data and would like to simply re-mount my drives. Is this possible? Also if I mess up and I'm unable to mount the raid/volumes, could I create an image of my current micro sd card and simply reflash it back onto the card and have everything as it was?

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helios4noob

May 12, 20215 yr

I see a very active gaming thread for the Orange Pi 5, but the Radxa Dragon Q6A is the better credit card sized ARM SBC for gaming. I'm a bit of a lazy person, so I don't feel like testing many settings, so I settled on the Steam ARM Linux client and for some games the Luxtorpeda tool for Steam. Luxtorpeda isn't developed for ARM, but it will run with Fex-Emu, and I assume Box64. https://codeberg.org/luxtorpeda/luxtorpeda Here you can see Metro 2033 Redux on the Rada Dragon Q6A. I played it with Luxtorpeda. You can also play it with Proton ARM64, but I didn't see much difference with the performance. Performance is around 20-25 fps at 1080p…

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LivingLinux

September 26Sep 26

I'm trying to get to the point where I can read time from the DS3231 RTC module on a Raspberry Pi 4. From what I understand, I first need to activate i2c bus, then load the kernel module that would work with the clock itself. So far i2cdetect tool fails to detect anything. There are no i2c-* devices in /dev either. I've read about "Hardware" option in armbian-config, but it's not showing up in the menu. I've also read that it's a matter of adding a device tree overlay. Does that apply for RPI4? The folder structure in /boot seems different from what documentation and several threads describe for other boards. What would be the steps for acti…

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check

January 13, 20242 yr

Just wondering if anyone would be interested in running a helios4 NAS still today? Or maybe you might need a spare board as a potential replacement? I have a decommissioned one at home that has been replaced with an x86 machine. The helios4 still works just fine and it would be quite a waste to just throw it away. It is the full kit: Case, board, cables and power adapter. Happy to send it (I am based in Germany) to whoever wants it as long as you cover the cost. Please send me a direct message if interested, thanks!

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laibsch

August 12, 20251 yr

Hello. I freshly installed bullseye from the other supported variant links for an odroid XU4. When trying to get docker daemon running, it looked like the ip_tables module and br_netfilter modules weren't available in the kernel. I think I have sorted out ip_tables (modprobe doesn't return any problems now), but docker's daemon is still showing a problem when running dockerd (with debug level info in the daemon.json file): Running modprobe bridge br_netfilter failed with message: modprobe: WARNING: Module bridge not found in directory /lib/modules/5.19.10-armmp-lpae When executing systemctl status docker.service ... …

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Igor

November 25, 20223 yr

Spoiler [58531.860637] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 [58531.860654] Normal: 56*4kB (H) 44*8kB (H) 48*16kB (H) 37*32kB (H) 14*64kB (H) 1*128kB (H) 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 3552kB [58531.860733] HighMem: 27*4kB (UM) 42*8kB (C) 1*16kB (C) 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 460kB [58531.860786] 304403 total pagecache pages [58531.860790] 15267 pages in swap cache [58531.860794] Swap cache stats: add 382457, delete 367190, find 125239/202183 [58531.860798] Free swap = 1630472kB [58531.860801] Total swap = 2097148kB [58531.860805] 518656 pages RAM [58531.860809] 322048 pages HighMem/MovableOnly [58531.860813] 8201 pages re…

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grep

January 3, 20188 yr

W: Size of file /var/lib/apt/lists/apt.armbian.com_dists_jessie_jessie-utils_binary-armhf_Packages.gz is not what the server reported 5780 5784 W: Size of file /var/lib/apt/lists/httpredir.debian.org_debian_dists_jessie-backports_main_binary-armhf_Packages.gz is not what the server reported 1122303 1123712 Get this when first doing apt update after fresh install. HC1 Jesse. I assumed at first it was network error, but this is consistent. Have downloaded and checksummed successful. Assumed then it was the SD card, replaced and have now tried several. Power supply is solid. I believe the hardware and bandwidth / router are fine. Simply repeat ap…

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Pavel

December 20, 20187 yr

Hello, playing around with the HC1 I noticed the lack of the nbd driver within this image. Because of the good documentation and the excellent build chain system I was able quickly to build a installation image solving my needs. My question: are there plans to add the settings necessary for nbd driver generation to the image build configuration ? Otherwise I would have to take care in case of armbian kernel updates. Thanks in advance, Joe62

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joe62

November 30, 20187 yr

I tried updating my kernel to self-built 5.4.173 as usual. I got some errors during installation due to low space on /boot, but after removing leftovers of 5.4.168 the installation worked as expected. Something went wrong though, as my HC1 no longer boots. This is shown via UART: All the files seem to be on the SD card: $ ls -l insgesamt 32447 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 64 8. Jan 16:27 armbianEnv.txt -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 6. Sep 2019 armbianEnv.txt.out -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1536 29. Mai 2018 armbian_first_run.txt.template -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 38518 29. Mai 2018 boot.bmp -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 4882 29. Mai 2018 boot-desktop.p…

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belegdol

June 17, 20224 yr

Hi, On Odroid HC1 512GB SSD with Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_stretch_legacy_4.14.170 I've got great SSD SATA samba write speed - 110 MB/s! But I have poor only 35MB/s on Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_buster_current_5.4.19_minimal With Armbian_20.02.1_Odroidxu4_bullseye_current_5.4.19 I have the same poor 35MB/s speed. I've done three identical installations using my checklist: Spoiler #Armbian install on Odroid HC1 # Flash Armbian_<>.img #Upgrade apt update apt upgrade #Move rootfs to SSD # Make rootfs partition fdisk /dev/sda # Make filesystems …

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Igor

March 5, 20206 yr

I have some HC1 running since last year. Before going into production I did SATA install, NEXT kernel, firmware and stretch update (I need that) and all updates offered through apt since then. I have read about newer armbian releases that my machines do not load and further HC1 optimization which I can´t find in my armbian-config. I wonder whether my setup will receive proper updates. It would be quite a hassle to reinstall. Now I have: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.9.61-odroidxu4 Linux HC1 4.9.61-odroidxu4 #2 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 22 16:34:23 CET 2017 armv7l cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http:/…

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trohn_javolta

May 16, 20188 yr

Hi, I get this error message on armbian / omv 4 to mail: "run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging exited with return code 1" Does anyone have a solution?

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Igor

November 9, 20187 yr

Hi, Using 4 HDDs in my Helios 4 with Openmediavault 5.5. After a update & restart all the HDD's are gone (not shown at all in lsblk anymore). After poking around in the the systemmessages i found this in dmsg, but don't know what to do with it. ``` [ 1.746837] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: supply ahci not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.746909] ahci-mvebu f10a8000.sata: supply phy not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747062] platform f10a8000.sata:sata-port@0: supply target not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747207] platform f10a8000.sata:sata-port@1: supply target not found, using dummy regulator [ 1.747285] ahci-mvebu…

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FredK

April 23, 20215 yr

If I boot my Odroid XU4 without the HDMI cable connected, my HDMI display does not work. If I boot with the HDMI cable and monitor connected, the HDMI display works fine even if it is disconnected and reconnected. I am running debian buster. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free I have compared the dmesg output from when HDMI works and does not work and do not see a difference. In case it helps, here are all of the dmesg lines with HDMI in them. root@odroidxu4:~# grep -i hdmi dmesg_hdmi_works_usb_hdmi_plugged_in_at_boot.txt [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttySAC2,115200n8 console=tty1 co…

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Michael Schuh

February 6, 20224 yr

My system has `linux-image-current-bcm2712` package installed with version 24.2.5 which I believe is the current Arbian release. I installed `linux-headers-current-bcm2712`, but this package has version 24.2.1. So I end up with system running `6.6.23-current-bcm2712` with headers for `6.6.18-current-bcm2712` and I can't build extra drivers in result. Any hints? I love technical forums that don't understand markdown, it makes life so much easier...

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Hank Barta

May 9, 20242 yr

Hey I have recently installed Armbian specifically the Intel/AMD image for my Dell 3100 2-in-1 chromebook. It runs fanominally but the headphone jack doesn't detect my headphones correctly but yet my bluetooth ones work without a problem. Anyone have a idea of whats going wrong?

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Trickiidum

March 22Mar 22

Hello, is it possible to connect the helios4 directly on his tv to view his videos or photos. For example with a usb3 adapter type A to hdmi. if I understood correctly the helios4 does not have a graphic circuit from where my interrogation.

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Caribou

November 26, 20187 yr

Hi, I am opening a new topic to make things clearer. This is a follow-up post from here: After managing to install it, I moved my Helios 4 and switched it on again. It started to work but then it shut down. I cannot switch it on anymore. I don't know if it comes from the Power supply or the motherboard. What are the solutions? Thank you for your help.

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GeckoX

December 21, 20205 yr

After creating a raid 6 array and creating a filesystem on it I decided to switch to a raid 5 instead. So i re-created the array and after that was done mkfs.ext4 fails every time. The error I get is: Having to wait for the arrays to be created TWICE now has taken my entire weekend! The armbianmonitor didn't work with the following output: root@helios4:/home/user# armbianmonitor -u System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to no results to fetchPlease post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for. Can anyone help me determine why this error is happening? It'd be much appreciated!

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gprovost

August 28, 20197 yr

... straightforward and smooth.

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FredK

October 21, 2025Oct 21

It's been a while I have on my TODO list : write a guide on how to activate and use the Marvell Cryptographic Engines And Security Accelerator (CESA) on Helios4. Previously I already shared some numbers related to the CESA engine while using @tkaiser sbc-bench tool. I also shared some findings on the openssl support for the kernel modules (cryptodev and af_alg) that interact with the cesa engine. My conclusion was : 1. performance wise : effectively cryptodev performs slightly better than af_alg. 2. openssl / libssl support : very messy and broken, it all depends which version of openssl you use. Since many Debian Stretch apps depe…

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sfx2000

November 1, 20214 yr

Hi my good old helios4 with OMV had been running for few years without big issue. but it suddenly lost all SATA HDD. OMV shown the 2 HDD are missing. i reboot it and during the boot i saw couple of error, failure... so decided to reinstall armbian by a new SD card. but tried 2 new cards with new images.. i got same error ... as attached log file. it seems during booting the kernel, not sure it is u-boot or kernel report it cannot find the root file system. i am not sure it is the SD card issue or it it the Helios4 board issue or any other issue. could anyone help? bootlog.txt

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heliosFR

January 11, 20251 yr

News related to Helios4 : Software update Wiki / Documentation update Etc...

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gprovost

November 12, 20205 yr

Hi, I'm new proud user of Helios4 Batch3. I started to "play" with different options on this board - and after a 24 hours of use - board doesnt start anymore. Status led blinks but and disk leds blink for short time. It is not possible to connect via terminal console or network. I'think that problem (at least logs point that way) with missing or unavail mount point or (one) disk problem. But nevertheless I think that system itself should still be accessible. Am I wrong? Some disks can fail but not all mount points reside on them. If I disconnect all disks (physically) then connection(s) is/are possible again. I'm st…

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aprayoga

September 9, 20197 yr

Hello, I stripped two or three mounting screws for the board. Does anyone know what is the type of these screws and what size are they? Thanks

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strike_noir

May 22, 20215 yr

@gprovost I described last year a process to upgrade from omv4 to omv5. (which is doable). I also did a clean install of omv5 after i was having random reboot issues using the newer kernel5. I ended up using the clean built and reconfiguring all the services and dockers. I do not recommend using the newer kernel if you are using dockers. This is where I would have random system reboots. OMV4 was very stable but since omv4 was eol. I decided to upgrade or do a clean install. I did both with the same random reboots using the newer kernel 5. Once i switched back to the older kernel with my config, I was not having the random reboot issues. I understand this would be ha…

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PEW

May 13, 20215 yr

Hello, After upgrading helios4 I encountered this problem after rebooting: U-Boot SPL 2019.04-armbian (Jul 03 2024 - 12:20:37 +0000) High speed PHY - Version: 2.0 Detected Device ID 6828 board SerDes lanes topology details: | Lane # | Speed | Type | -------------------------------- | 0 | 6 | SATA0 | | 1 | 5 | USB3 HOST0 | | 2 | 6 | SATA1 | | 3 | 6 | SATA3 | | 4 | 6 | SATA2 | | 5 | 5 | USB3 HOST1 | -------------------------------- High speed PHY - Ended Successfully mv_ddr: mv_ddr-armada-18.09.2 DDR3 Training Sequence - Switching XBAR Window to FastPath Window DDR Training Sequenc…

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wolf7250

December 10, 2025Dec 10

Hi, after some time on storage i tried to reativate my batch 2 helios4 only to be greeted with a seemingly broken device. Tried the following: 1. Flashed a new good SD Card with Armbian (golden sundisk one) 2. unplugged all harddisks in my helios 4 3. inserted SD-Card and plugged in in. Result: Orange blinking on the Network Port Green blinking next to the Power slow USB-TTY does not show up Tt does not boot I hear a slight chirping noise synchronous with the green LED. It comes directly from the board not the fans, harddisks or PSU. Sounds like a fan briefly rubbing against something but it's comming 100%…

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Nathan Driver

July 6, 20224 yr

1. Question: How do I check that ECC is really active? 2. Possible Kernel issue: The Debian Buster image's Kernel seems to lack CPU frequency info settings: "cat: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq: No such file or directory". How can that be fixed? 3. Possible assembly issue: I think the air flow through the case should be reversed. Testing scenario: two units about 0,5 m apart in the same location. One unit assembled as shown in the Wiki, the second one assembled with reverse fan direction. First unit equipped with WD40EFRX-68N32N0 (3 platters), second one with the older WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 (4 platters). Because of tha…

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Jeckyll

September 19, 20197 yr

Hello Everyone, My Helios4 stop of working. It was probably SD CARD because I format an other one with the last Armbian and after it boot again. Now I config ip address and can connect to it via ssh. Install webmin and saw that it didn't mount /dev/md0 I did it but filesystem in raid1 is btrfs. When I mounted it it say : unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' Someone can help me? Best regards.

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Stéfan Basch

July 15, 20215 yr

I have a Helios4 (2nd batch) with 4 HDDs, and before I started using it, I decided to test its performance on the planned workload. However, I got quite not satisfied with the numbers. First, the SSH speed is about 30 MB/s, while the CPU core where sshd runs is at 100% (so I suppose it's the bottleneck). I create a sparse file and copy it over SSH: helios4# dd if=/dev/null bs=1M seek=2000 of=/tmp/blank With scp I get up to 31.2 MB/s: pc# scp root@helios4:/tmp/blank /tmp With rsync I get pretty much the same numbers: pc# rm /tmp/blank pc# rsync -e ssh --progress root@helios4:/tmp/blank /tmp/ blank 2,097,152,000 100% 31.06MB/s 0:01:04 (xfr…

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Heisath

February 16, 20215 yr

To all folks, We are taking order for the 2nd batch of Helios4. If you are interested visit our shop. We offer the two following kits for order : Helios4 2GB ECC Full Kit Helios4 2GB ECC Basic Kit Thanks for the support ;-) The Kobol Team

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Igor

July 4, 20188 yr

This main thread has been locked. Thanks to the Armbian team, we now have our own Kobol club (kinda sub forum) dedicated to our products (Helios64 & Helios4). So now you are encourage to create individual threads for new issue, discuss feature, share setup, etc... This will help to improve overall readability. Note : Before asking a question please insure the information is not already available on Helios4 Wiki or addressed in a previous post in this forum. Latest Build : Check : https://dl.armbian.com/helios4/ Archived Build : Check : https://archive.armbian.com/helios4/archiv…

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Werner

November 12, 20205 yr

Is helios4 usb gadget Ethernet enabled? If it is available, how can it be activated? If the usb gadget Ethernet is not default build , which helios4 kernel build options should I modify?

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aprayoga

February 15, 20215 yr

Hello everyone, I am thinking about moving the Helios4 into a Inter-Tech SC-4100 case. The backplane in that case has only one Molex powerconnector. So is it possible to combine both power connectors on the board (J14 + J19) into one ? https://wiki.kobol.io/helios4/img/hardware/board_legend.jpg Thanks Br, Joe

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DocViper

April 7, 20215 yr

I have tried all known possible combos to hide the grub menu on boot but no luck I tested on the /etc/default/grub and /etc/default/grub.d/98-armbian.cfg Is there another config file Im missing that ignores above, especially later? Tried also with custom override config at boot. Any advise is welcome

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2play

March 20, 20242 yr

Hello, my OMV installation on Odroid HC1 is currently at kernel 4.14.111 which is a bit outdated now. Looking at the build config [1], the kernel is fetched from hardkernel [2] which is currently at 4.14.127. What needs to happen to bring the kernel up-to-date? I have been doing packaging for Fedora for quite a while now so I am happy to help if needed. [1] https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/sources/odroidxu4.conf [2] https://github.com/hardkernel/linux/tree/odroidxu4-4.14.y

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Igor

June 25, 20197 yr

I am asking because I can't find a toggle or anything in the settings and find it a tad anoying especally when it is a game I am playing a fast paced game.

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usual user

April 7Apr 7

Hi, I'm using the minimal Armbian Debian-based image as a starting point to install my favorite desktop environment KDE and related software. I've got everything set up so that I got it working partially. I remember trying the Armbian desktop (Ubuntu flavor) but it did not have it set up out of the box IIRC (I could be wrong). I took a look at how the hardkernel guys set up their official Ubuntu image for Odroid XU4 and used that as a guide to set it up on my minimal Armbian. So here's what I've done and what I've learned I need to do according to the official image: 1. apt install mali-t62x-x11-driver xserver-xorg-video-armsoc-sun4i …

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rs677567

November 11, 20196 yr

I'm using Armbian 21.08.8 (Bullseye). I want to upgrade to Armbian 22.02.1 but "apt-get update" doesn't offer anything. Reason seems to be that <mirror>/apt/dists is from Feb 1st 2022. OTOH <mirror>/dl contains the new release but "starting from scratch" (download image, write SDcard) implies that I have to rebuild my OMV6 on top of Armbian. Question: When can I expect that <mirror>/apt/dists will be refreshed? Or is there any other way to upgrade my installation?

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rayc

June 13, 20233 yr

I am unable to see how to setup the Pimoroni NVME base for the Raspberry PI 5 with Armbian 23.11.3. Are there published instructions? Is this supported?

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Andro

February 24, 20242 yr

The Armbian htop fork doesn’t show the cores frequencies. Is this a known problem? The frequencies are available like on any other computer in the sysfs entries (cpufreq driver).

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memeka

January 23, 20197 yr

Hello all! After upgrading to OMV 7 and Debian 12 my OLED display remains dark. I am using Kobol Helios 4 NAS. Can anyone tell me where the problem is? When i try to execute git clone https://github.com/kobol-io/sys-oled.git cd sys-oled sudo ./install.sh I get the following error message via SSH. Installing luma.oled library error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install. If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m ve…

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Tearran

August 31, 20242 yr

Hello all, according to the hints on the ARMBIAN homepage the image "Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Rpi4b_lunar_edge_6.1.5.img" should work with the Raspi 3. Unfortunately it does not work properly, the system does not want to boot with it.... The name of the image says that it was generated for Raspi4, but -as I said- the homepage says that this image would also be compatible for the other Raspberry systems mentioned there. Can anyone tell me what the reason could be, because I would love to use this ingenious image for the Raspi 3. Best regards from Berlin Z. Matthias

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Igor

February 27, 20233 yr

I'm struggling to get the Pi Camera 3/IMX708 detected by the Zero 2W. It's an IMX708 sensor, and that is correctly showing in dmesg, but the V4L2 devices (/dev/video0, /dev/video1) for the camera are not set up. All the normal encoder devices are fine. I'm using a custom build but it's essentially minimal (and no desktop) current with trixie and no extensions, following the standard command for building an image. The dmesg log reads as follows: [ 10.719672] imx708 10-001a: camera module ID 0x0302 [ 10.719876] imx708 10-001a: ctrl(id:0x9f0902,val:0x232aaf80) is not handled [ 10.722275] imx708 10-001a: ctrl(id:0x9e0902,val:0x2b20) is…

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Stuart Watt

June 25Jun 25

hi, i try to install the current IOT/minmal image on the intern ssd on a old thinclient. USB-Drive will ident as sda and the ssd as sdb. if i use on armbian-config the install script for install, he create two partitions (sdb1 &2 / efi & linux) but it only boot with usb drive. On the usb drive i has a BIOS boot partition, must i swaphis somehow to the ssd drive?

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Werner

September 24, 20251 yr

I tried to replace PXVirt on my Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB RAM) with a fresh Proxmox installation. I flashed the Armbian 26.8.1 minimal image and then ran `apt update && apt full-upgrade`. I started the installation with : armbian-config --cmd PVE001 An error occurred during installation: An apt update shows Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease Get:2 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease [43.4 kB] Get:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve trixie InRelease [4,357 B] Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB] Hit:5 https://github.armbian.com/configng sta…

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MacBreaker

September 11Sep 11

Hello, I have been struggling with this for a while, found some replies on the other communities but I simply cannot get Wireguard up and running on my Odroid HC2 with Armbian. Running... echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unstable-wireguard.list printf 'Package: *\nPin: release a=unstable\nPin-Priority: 90\n' > /etc/apt/preferences.d/limit-unstable apt update apt install -y linux-headers-odroidxu4 wireguard yields... Loading new wireguard-0.0.20181218 DKMS files... dpkg: warning: version '3.10.106-odroidxu4 4.19.14' has bad syntax: invalid character in revision number Building f…

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SteeMan

November 29, 20241 yr

Armbian Bookworm 25.8.1. (minimal) Odroid XU4 with 32GB eMMc After lots of searching and trying 2017 Hardkernel solutions and github etc - And this forum suggestions - I could never get get it to boot. I think this is partly because things have changed since 2016/17. I did not have my eMMc on an usb adapter. Just installed, brand new (untouched from China) eMMc and a imaage install on MicroSD of Armbian. The method I believed should work was "armbian-install". But, it had errors while using mkpartimage. I put debug statements in the script and found the particular instance of invoking mkpartimage. Actually the issue is; 2 files…

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davemusic

November 14, 2025Nov 14

I've got an NVME SSD formated to 4Kn block size which means `dd`ing the .img file to the drive isn't going to work. Is there a recommended way to install Armbian in this situation?

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trapexit

July 12, 20242 yr

Hello there, I recently gained remote access to a Banana Pi F3 to test it, and everything went smoothly. The board was running Bianbu Linux, and I was able to install and use Docker without issues. Now, I'm considering purchasing the board and was wondering if the Armbian image would also support running Docker. Do you have any insights on this? Thanks!

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gounthar

June 18, 20251 yr

Hello there, 👋 I've connected an NVMe drive that I used in my PC to the Banana Pi F3, but it's not being detected. I'm using a USB-C PD power supply (Pine64 PinePower Desktop) to ensure sufficient power, yet it's still not recognized. The drive might be faulty. Has anyone successfully used an NVMe drive with this board? If so, could you share which NVMe drives are known to work with it? Thanks! _ _ _ /_\ _ _ _ __ | |__(_)__ _ _ _ / _ \| '_| ' \| '_ \ / _` | ' \ /_/ \_\_| |_|_|_|_.__/_\__,_|_||_| v25.5.1 for BananaPi BPI-F3 running Armbian Linux 6.6.87-current-spacemit Packages: Debian rolling (trixie)…

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gounthar

July 8, 20251 yr

The `hardware` menu is missing on the current build - so been trying to manually install spidev module. I did add the following lines to armbianEnv.txt but I don't see anything yet in /dev/spi* overlays=spi-spidev param_spidev_spi_bus=0

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Igor

March 21, 20233 yr

Hi, I've got since several days an issue with armbian-truncate-logs. I received mail alerts from cron as this one, error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log.hdd/mysql/mysql.log /var/log.hdd/mysql/mysql-slow.log +/var/log.hdd/mysql/mariadb-slow.log /var/log.hdd/mysql/error.log ' error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log.hdd/nginx/*.log ' How to debug that? Laurent

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Guest

January 1, 20215 yr

Hi, I'm running OMV on Odroid HC2. I updated to OMV 7.7.1. Armbian to 24.5.1 with Linux kernel 6.6.31-current-odroid-xu4. After reboot the server started to act very slow. I tried to reapply the DBT for HC1/2 via armbian-config but this did not help. armbian-config says I'm on ondemand governor between 200-200 MHz. What could be the issue? Actually my system says I should run dpkg --configure -a but this command hang here and the system reboots after few seconds... steakhutzeee@dk:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a [sudo] password for steakhutzeee: Setting up containerd.io (1.6.33-1) ... …

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hmof

June 18, 20242 yr

Hello, So I am trying to setup my Helios 4. I am running into some issues with the installation, trying to group them here, so it will be easier. 1. I am trying to setup NextCloud following your tutorial on kobol wiki but I cannot install PHP 7.3 Here is the screenshot of the output after running the command: 2. Also, when I enter Armbian-Config, it seems unstable and crash. The menu doesn't display. 3. Other issue, I cannot access my NAS through SSH. It returns "operation timed out" How to solve these issues? Thank you for your help.

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gprovost

January 7, 20215 yr

after installing armbian on my odroid-xu4-box and about one hour later the screen was going black. But I was not able to get back the running X-Session. So I rebootet as first and as next step I disabled the xdg-screensaver to off, but with no succes - the screen goes black again and neither a moving of the mouse nor a touch the keyboard brings the screan back to activity. So - now what can I do here ? The same behavior appears, if I switch off the screen, if I wanna make a pause for some times. After controlling the xdg-screensaver status I get "off". So it seems, that no screensver is active and running. Which process produces this behavior ? Hope anyone …

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Igor

September 11, 20179 yr

After more than six successful years with Helios4, I have to say goodbye to this platform and the highly valued, helpful, and knowledgeable Armbian forum. With 32-bit, it’s no longer feasible to continue using it in the future. I have installed the 4 8TB hard drives from the NAS into an Odroid H4+ (Intel, 64-bit), installed OMV8, and on top of that, Nextcloud-AIO Hub 26 Winter and AdGuardHome. Thank you very much for your support over the past few years. btw. The Helios4 hardware (excluding the hard drives) is still available.

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eselarm

August 18Aug 18

I've tried nand-sata-install on Armbian_22.05.3_Odroidxu4_jammy_current_5.4.199.img and Armbian_22.05.3_Odroidxu4_focal_current_5.4.199.img. Right at the end of running nand-sata-install there's an error. If I try to install anything after nand-sata-install it will hang or the SSD will go into read only mode. To be safe I tested various SD cards and USB to SATA controllers. sed: can't read /boot/boot.cmd: No such file or directory sed: can't read /boot/boot.cmd: No such file or directory Error while creating U-Boot loader image with mkimage umount: /mnt/nand-sata-install.wwpusQ/bootfs: not mounted.

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sgjava

June 28, 20224 yr

Just using ubuntu and want to change to ambian ASAP

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wildcat_paris

November 14, 20169 yr