SteeMan

I'd recommend starting by submitting PRs for the board. Build up some knowledge and experience with Armbian development and processes. Then when you feel comfortable with the requirements expected of a maintainer, make that final commitment (https://docs.armbian.com/Board_Maintainers_Procedures_and_Guidelines/)

I'm assuming the image is using an ext4 filesystem, and macos isn't able to read a Linux ext4 filesystem. I'f you were to use the SD card on any Linux box it should be readable. Or install ext4 support on your Mac.

The quick fix is to use armbian-config to go back to the older working kernel, and then freeze kernel updates.

@alidaf what build are you trying to image? Why do you expect a Linux image to be readable on macros? Does the SD card work on the target sbc?

Buster was recently moved to end of support status in Armbian (Debian ends support in a couple of months too). Buster was released nearly five years ago. It is time to upgrade.

I should also add: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first

I personally would say no. No one has submitted anything to Armbian related to these TV boxes. So none of the progress you see discussed in the forums is Armbian based. It is all done on forks of Armbian or other outside work. Until you start seeing someone step up and begin submitting PRs to Armbian for any of this work, I wouldn't say it has a future for you to consider it a replacement for anything. However if you only need to get something working once and don't care about receiving future kernel updates, then taking a build you see here would be fine.

Please provide all the information I asked for. What build are you using? What steps have you taken? Please provide exact steps? Why are you using recovery mode? That isn't a step in the instructions.

@thantien what box? what build? What steps have you taken?

I don't know if this is your problem, but in the text you copied into your first post you are missing a \ after the first line

Post the log of your build

Your title is misleading. You don't want to disable Ethernet. What is happening is that uboot is failing to boot and as a last resort trying a network boot. Your problem is that you can't just take a build for a different box and expect it to work for your box. In general TV boxes are not supported by Armbian. You need to search the forums or the wider Internet to see if anyone has had any success with installing on your specific box and how to do that. If no one has them you always have the option of adding the support for your box using the Armbian build framework, but that is a daunting task if you are not already familiar with porting Linux and uboot to sbcs/tvboxes.

@FuSan The recommended way to switch kernels.in Armbian is through armbian-config

@Andrea in general, old branches are not maintained and builds on old branches are not repeatable. There are references out to third party sources that change over time. So as @Igor suggested , you should try with something more recent. (We hope in the future to make builds reproducible, there is work recently to that effect)

@Khadas and I thank you for what you have posted. Armbian is always in need of intelligent people helping in anyway they can. Things as simple as reporting your findings help others

Have you tried the Orange Pi R1 builds on the download page you linked to in your first post?

What version do you have installed? That package should be already installed on all builds (except I believe cli minimal builds)

What you may be finding is that in armbian-config you are not seeing any stable releases. That would be because your board is not supported by Armbian. It in in unmaintained/community support status. Community supported boards now only get rolling automated builds, no stable releases.

I'm not sure what you mean by this as armbian-config is available on all Armbian builds.

The info that Igor posted is for an extension to the build system that can be enabled to make an image with HA. You would need to build a custom image using the build framework to utilize this method.

But the root= in the log file is wrong.

Why did you repost the log? Have you changed your root= parameter as was suggested?

The site is forums.armbian.com. It should be obvious that these forums are for Armbian, and this particular sub forum for Armbian on amlogic TV boxes

Your problem is here. Look at the extlinux.conf.template for the correct contents. You need to add an FDT line not edit the FDTDIR line

If you look at the line trying to load you dtb file, you can see that something is wrong. Post the contents of your extlinix.conf file?