Just got my Tinker Board S in... used Etcher to flash the following image to the eMMC:
 

Armbian Stretch 
mainline kernel 4.14.y

It won't boot.  That same image flashed to the SD card boots just fine.  I've tried using the armbian-config to install it to the eMMC that way; however, all I get are "There are no targets.  Please check your drives." 

What the heck am I doin' wrong?  New to the entire SBC realm, and got this instead of the Pi.  I don't want a desktop distro installed... just a simple distro w/ bash.  Any help would be appreciated... spent the last 6 hours trying to figure this out.  This isn't the 'tinkering' I had in mind when I got this thing.  Thanks...

Respectfully,
Eric

Edited June 29, 20188 yr by deveric
misspelled word

4 hours ago, deveric said:

What the heck am I doin' wrong?

Nothing. Tinkerboard S or eMMC support on Tinkerboard was not developed/adjusted yet. I got my S model earlier this week, but I am too busy even to open the package. The second problem is that stock kernel is (still?) a complete mess due to severe upstream changes. Support in a modern kernel might be even more difficult. Don't know much from a current perspective. It can be a simple way to fix this as well ...

Boot and use a system from SD media until this is not fixed since it might take some time.

Fixed with this commit:

https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/3d35e2edfcbdd8bdb7b511e9973e5d83b5fba7a9

Boot log: http://ix.io/1fmU from eMMC ... an image was written directly to eMMC.

Side note: there are some issues with DRM video driver and systems boots very very slow when a monitor is attached.

The mainline kernel has been relatively good, the Rockchip one is slowly being recovered, trying to get the first boot video terminal back and the touchscreen

19 minutes ago, TonyMac32 said:

The mainline kernel has been relatively good

That happened on 4.17.y ... will check it later. Anyway, I need to rebuild images to support S model. Boot and flashing part is fully supported from:

 

https://github.com/armbian/build/commit/bb2ce93795be48f414ff223b06ea2533bd2af5ab
eMMC flashing from Windows/Linux via Etcher.

 

Neat.

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You guys kick ass... appreciate it, and all you do for getting these devices to play nicely with Armbian!  :P

3 hours ago, TonyMac32 said:

Neat.

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How is the situation with a legacy kernel? Is it good enough to rebuild images?

No, without the initial framebuffer you have to serial port or should in on first boot, and the touchscreen is non-functional for anyone who might want to use it. It locked up on my last test with it, more work tonight.

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