odroidm1
By Ricardo Pardini / General purpose • NAS / 0 Comments

Odroid M1

Installation instructions:

  1. Write image to SD using BalenaEtcher.
  2. Boot from SD by holding the recovery (RCI) button while powering the board.
  3. Release RCY button after the blue LED flashes once.
  4. Once booted, use armbian-install to write u-boot to MTD (SPI flash). This completely and irrevocably removes Petitboot, replacing it with mainline u-boot.
  5. You can also install to NVMe, USB, or eMMC. NVMe or eMMC is recommended.

Armbian Bookworm 24.11.1 minimal testing:

  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended

Armbian Noble 24.11.1 with KDE Neon and Gnome:

  • Boot ok, from sdcard
  • HDMI is ok
  • USB2 ports are ok
  • Gigabit Etherner is ok
  • Reboot and shutdown work as intended
odroidhc4.png
By Bert Vermeulen / General purpose • NAS / 0 Comments

Odroid HC4

If you have variant with LCD display – here you can download driver.

Important: To be able to boot clean Armbian mainline based u-boot / kernel experiences, you need to remove incompatible Petitboot loader that is shipped with the board.

Attach the device to a display and keyboard.  Power on.  Petitboot will load

From the Petitboot menu, go for “Exit to shell” and these commands to remove the Petitboot:

# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd2
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd3

These commands can also be executed via a serial console, if you have an Odroid UART cable

This will make your SPI flash memory empty and would start from SD on next boot.

In case you want to put Petitboot back to the board, user these instructions.

 

odroidc4.png
By technicavolous / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

Odroid C4

In case you are experiencing reboot troubles, make sure to update u-boot. How? Run this command as root:

armbian-install -> "Update bootloader"
odroidn2
By Nico Andy Dekerf / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

Odroid N2 / N2+

  • some people are having troubles with booting with Petitboot loader. In case you have troubles too, you need to disable Petitboot by running fw_setenv skip_spiboot true in the command line of Petitboot
  • 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.
odroidxu4
By Joe Khoobyar / Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

Odroid XU4 / HCx

For HC1 and HC2 we provide specially optimized config which you can enable via armbian-config -> system -> kernel -> select odroid configuration. This results in shorter boot time and lower consumption. Manualls – edit or create /boot/armbianEnv.txt and add: board_name=xu4 # or xu3, xu3, hc1

Overlay management via armbian-config is not supported. You need to edit /boot/boot.ini and add overlays manually. Look for a line:
setenv overlays "i2c0 i2c1 hktft-cs-ogst"

Here you add what you need. More you can find in /boot/dtb/ or /boot/dtb/overlays

Make sure to adjust path in

ext4load mmc 0:1 0x60000000 /boot/dtb/overlays/${overlay}.dtbo

accordingly.