Hi,

 

It seems that the Odroid N2 armbian builds do not support using armbianEnv.txt AT ALL. 

See this forum entry from 2021:

 

I am facing the same issue with Armbian 26.2.1 Minimal

dmesg shows the following:

[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=c8906fe5-129c-4388-840c-58c43c541176 rootwait rootfstype=ext4 splash=verbose console=ttyAML0,115200 console=tty1 consoleblank=0 coherent_pool=2M loglevel=1 ubootpart=001c9d62-01 libata.force=noncq usb-storage.quirks=    cgroup_enable=memory

 

with the following in /boot/armbianEnv.txt:

 

verbosity=1
console=both
overlay_prefix=meson
rootdev=UUID=c8906fe5-129c-4388-840c-58c43c541176
rootfstype=ext4
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

 

I also tried adding extraargs=

but nothing ends up in the command line.

 

The old forum entry does mention editing the boot.ini to manually append it to bootargs, however I am not sure where that is located in the image and how to modify it. 

 

I tried both booting with petitboot and without, both show the same issue.

I now found a workaround, basically adding the following to the top of /boot/boot.cmd

setenv usbstoragequirks "0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u"

and running mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr  (as shown at the bottom of /boot/boot.cmd

 

However this is not sustainable, and it would still be preferable if the inclusion of armbianEnv.txt could be fixed, ESPECIALLY considering that the download page https://www.armbian.com/odroid-n2/

gives the following (useless due to this issue) advise:

 

On modern kernels adding “video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D” to boot /boot/armbianEnv.txt (extraargs=) should force HDMI to 1080p instead of the 4K native resolution.

 

 

Update: it seems that with latest version this is now finally fixed. The usbstoragequirks from armbianEnv.txt is now used, the workaround should no longer be necessary.