station-p2
By Oleg Ivanov / Desktop / 0 Comments

Station P2

In case of troubles booting, read this topic.

Important. For the new images to work, it is necessary to update the u-boot in eMMC on P2. The new version of u-boot is compatible with the existing official versions of Station and Ubuntu, which are released by Firefly. To upgrade to the new version of u-boot, you need to follow several steps.
1. Download a special version of the image from the link.

Download link

2. Unpack, write to the SD card.
3. Start the system, perform the initial configuration (answer the questions).
4. to start the update procedure, run the command

sudo /vendor/p2-station-update-uboot

After completing the procedure, turn off the system and you can use the new images as usual, perform the installation in eMMC\NVMe\SATA using the standard nand-install-sata utility.

Please note that before installing the system in eMMC\NVMe\SATA, I strongly recommend creating a full backup of the contents of eMMC. To do this, all ArmbianTV images have a special utility “ddbr”. BEFORE starting the installation, you need to run the ddbr utility and select creating a compressed copy. This will allow you to easily return to the current state of eMMC in the future.

orangepi-r1plus
By Kat Schwarz / Networking / 0 Comments

Orange Pi R1+

  • There may be a known issue that could affect this board on some IPv4 only networks. Symptoms are variable, from intermittent drop-outs and slow-downs to total loss of one NIC or total loss of networking. The issue can be completely eliminated by disabling IPv6. Don’t try to do this through armbian-config this method does not work. IPv6 must be disabled by adding a line extraargs="ipv6.disable=1" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt
By jock jock / General purpose • Desktop / 0 Comments

RK322X

Support for generic RK3228A, RK3228B and RK3229 TV boxes, with various commercial names and manufacturers (MXQ 4k, MXQ Pro 4k, V88 Mars, A8, Model X, etc…)

Due to the really large hardware variety, there is the rare chance that the images proposed here may not boot. If a bad image is burned in eMMC, the box may not boot anymore forcing you to follow the unbrick section at the bottom of this post.

Forum thread with guides, suggestions, support, hardware acceleration multimedia support: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12656-wip-armbian-for-rk322x-devices/

Quick installation instructions on eMMC:

  • Build or download your preferred Armbian image and a copy of the Multitool;
  • Burn the Multitool on an SD card; once done, place the Armbian image in images folder of the SD card FAT partition;
  • Plug the SD card in the TV box and plug in the power cord. After some seconds the blue led starts blinking and the Multitool appears;
  • OPTIONAL: you can do a backup of the existing firmware with “Backup flash” menu option;
  • Choose “Burn image to flash” from the menu, then select the destination device (usually mmcblk2) and the image to burn;
  • Wait for the process to complete, then choose “Shutdown” from main menu;
  • Unplug the power cord and the SD card, then replug the power cord;
  • Wait for 10 seconds, then the led should start blinking and HDMI will turn on. The first time the boot process will take a couple of minutes or more because the filesystem is going to be resized, so be patient and wait for the login prompt.
  • On first boot you will be asked for entering a password for root user of your choice and the name and password for a regular user
  • Run sudo rk322x-config and select your board characteristics to enable leds, wifi chips, high-speed eMMC, etc…
  • Run armbian-config to configure timezone, locales and other personal options
  • Congratulations, Armbian is now installed!

Quick installation instructions on NAND:

  • Build or download your preferred Armbian image and a copy of the Multitool;
  • Burn the Multitool on an SD card; once done, place the Armbian legacy kernel image in images folder of the SD card FAT partition;
  • Plug the SD card in the TV box and plug in the power cord. After some seconds the blue led starts blinking and the Multitool appears;
  • OPTIONAL: you can do a backup of the existing firmware with “Backup flash” menu option;
  • Choose “Burn Armbian image via steP-nand” from the menu, then select the destination device (usually rknand0) and the image to burn;
  • Wait for the process to complete, then choose “Shutdown” from main menu;
  • Unplug the power cord and the SD card, then replug the power cord;
  • Wait for 10 seconds, then the led should start blinking and HDMI will turn on. The first time the boot process will take a couple of minutes or more because the filesystem is going to be resized, so be patient and wait for the login prompt.
  • On first boot you will be asked for entering a password for root user of your choice and the name and password for a regular user
  • Run sudo rk322x-config and select your board characteristics to enable leds, wifi chips, etc…
  • Run armbian-config to configure timezone, locales and other personal options
  • Congratulations, Armbian is now installed!

Quick installation instructions to boot from SD Card:

  • If you are already running Armbian from eMMC, skip to the next step. Instead if you are running the original firmware you need to first erase the internal eMMC; to do so download the Multitool, burn it on an SD Card, plug the SD Card and power the TV Box. Use “Backup flash” if you want to do a backup of the existing firmware, then choose “Erase flash” menu option.
  • Build or download your preferred Armbian image;
  • Uncompress and burn the Armbian image on the SD Card;
  • Plug the SD Card in the TV Box and power it on;
  • Wait for 10 seconds, then the led should start blinking and HDMI will turn on. The first time the boot process will take a couple of minutes or more because the filesystem is going to be resized, so be patient and wait for the login prompt;
  • On first boot you will be asked for entering a password for root user of your choice and the name and password for a regular user
  • Run sudo rk322x-config and select your board characteristics to enable leds, wifi chips, high-speed eMMC or NAND, etc…
  • Run armbian-config to configure timezone, locales and other personal options, or also to transfer the SD Card installation to internal eMMC;
  • Congratulations, Armbian is running from SD Card!

Boot device order:

With Armbian also comes mainline U-boot. If you install Armbian or just the bootloader in the eMMC or the Jump Start on internal NAND, the bootloader will look for valid bootable images in this order:

  • External SD Card
  • External USB Stick in OTG Port
  • Internal eMMC

Unbrick:

Rockchip devices cannot be bricked. If the internal flash does not contain a bootable system, they will always boot from the sdcard. If, for a reason, the bootable system on the internal flash is corrupted or is unable to boot correctly, you can always force the maskrom mode shorting the eMMC clock pin on the PCB. Here there is the procedure, but you can also google around if you get stuck on a faulty bootloader, the technique is pretty simple and requires a simple screwdriver.