I’m having a lot of trouble getting started with Armbian Ubuntu 16 (SD Boot) and the board.

 

I downloaded the default image from https://dl.armbian.com/espressobin/ and wrote it successfully to the SD card.

 

In UBoot, I have tried using the cmd at https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/bootscripts/boot-espressobin.cmd and there is no armada-3720-espressobin.dtb file at the path that is called.

 

It also cacks out on the if statement saying there is no “load” command.

 

If I don’t call the expressobin.dtb and bypass the if statement, using “run bootmmc” starts it loading but it hangs and throws some errors and then hangs.

 

Note that I don’t have a physical linux box, I’m using Windows to create the boot/install SD card so editing TXT files is pretty much impossible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Espressobin bin is not yet supported since there are some rough edges and bugs. To be able to boot you need to update u-boot, located on SPI flash - instructions are at the download page and apparently you need to recreate (and save) boot environment which seeks for boot script on SD card or USB.  We don't support this board also because we are out of resources.