Armbian on U9-H boot problem

[Sandro7]

Hi, I cant run armbian from balbes150 from SD - TVBOX MINIX U9-H (Amlogic s912 2/16) just dosent boot. TV shows dark screen more than hour.

What I'm doing wrong?:

1. I downloaded https://users.armbian.com/balbes150/arm-64/Armbian_20.10_Arm-64_buster_current_5.9.0.img.xz
2. Flashed it with balenaEtcher to SD
3. Renamed u-boot-s905x-s912 => u-boot.ext
4. Made changeds in extlinux.conf

LABEL Armbian
LINUX /zImage
INITRD /uInitrd
FDT /dtb/amlogic/meson-gxm-q200.dtb
APPEND root=LABEL=ROOTFS rootflags=data=writeback rw console=ttyAML0,115200n8 console=tty0 no_console_suspend consoleblank=0 fsck.fix=yes fsck.repair=yes net.ifnames=0

5. Inserted SD and used toothpick method
6. Blank screen )


Same time I can boot Coreelec from SD. May be there are other armbian build or ways to try?

PS: Coreelec is not ok for me because of restrictionst that not allow me to install home assistant supervised(

 

[OldFriend]

Same time I can boot Coreelec from SD.(

I believe this is the problem, I did read somewhere that if you already have dual boot with CoreELEC then a Linux distro will not boot. If you have nothing to lose on the U9 then try a manual flash of the latest firmware then try the Armbian again.

 

[spikerguy]

Your trying a generic dtb which might not always work.
You will have to get some logs from uart connection to know what's going on in the background.

Which os do you have on your emmc?

 

[jpl69]

Has anyone installed Armbian on Emmc ? How to?