Hi, I have a cubietruck 3 with a faulty SD card slot, how do I approach installing armbian on it?

Thanks

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Hi,

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First method: You may try to use  ​LiveSuite and OTG mode in order to install any factory image. I'm not sure that it's possible for Armbian images but you may swap existing FS on NAND by this from Armbian (for example from HDD installed for a moment with extracted FS from SDcard). The existing in NAND kernel should work with new FS which you can deploy from HDD. Second method: I suppose that is possible change FS before flash it in NAND (in order do it you should mount iso file and next change FS). Next you should flash NAND using LiveSuite. My advises are theoretically because I had never need to use these but they are first which I might to use...

 

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these methods do not help( now, if someone posted the image to NAND, it could be flash from the Phoenix suite or told how to do it. or backup boot+roofs have already deployed the system

Hi,

you want to have an image of nand1 that then boots and uses sda1 as rootfs, kernel 3.4.113, is that right?

I need to set Mainline 4.9.7 debian jessie.absolutely any method which eliminates the use of the sd card (it's broken). nand or sata or usb flash doesn't matter to me.

Currently you won't be able to use mainline (at least reliably) because the only bootable media in your case is the NAND storage, which is not supported by mainline u-boot (unless legacy u-boot can properly chainload the mainline one or mainline SPL and u-boot can work reliably on MLC NAND).

 

If you want specifically Armbian image then it may be possible to boot the legacy image via FEL/NFS method and use nand-sata-install script, but this option is primarily for the developers, requires setting up a build environment with native or bridged network and native or pass-through USB (which still may not work with FEL mode) and it is not documented for end users (so there is not tutorial or step-by-step guide).

 

For the reference there are no Armbian images compatible with PhoenixSuit/LiveSuite, so you can only flash stock images provided by Cubietech using this method.

thank you very much for the answer. it is a pity that I can't install armbian

 

Also it should be possible to boot the latest images (5.25 and maybe 5.24) from USB flash drive with u-boot loaded in FEL mode. Again, only legacy 3.4.x based image can be installed to NAND or SATA (with legacy u-boot in NAND as the primary boot option)