Armbian images are now available for Rock 5b!

I mean, you could also provide some logs, or something.
The only advice I have off the top of my head is that you need to run two commands if you want to use Docker (HA supervised is based on that):

update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy
update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy

But if you have some other issue, nobody’s going to help you without additional info.
Also, it would be a good idea to create a separate topic for your question.

Wow. Armbian has really come along. I’m running with NVME and SPI. Gnome + Wayland. Full acceleration and everything I need for C++/Arduino dev.

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i used it for about 3 days as my main pc but the nvme ssd died mid experiment so now again on my intel desktop pc but i was verry impressed with this small computer (only one small problem that the onboard hdmi ports were unable to drive dvi-d monitors but they worked over usb-c) but 3 monitors was no problem

Not sure i understand correctly, can you tell me how old was your nvme SSD? and the size and used size when it failed?

it did its job and there was no important data on it (about 4 years and 240gb in size)

Nope, boot from NVME still doesn’t work in Arbian.

Works fine with Radxa image.

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i have no problem with nvme boot with the armbian image (did you flash the spi rom)

Flashing the SPI is part of the install, so yes I did. The odd thing is it boots once, but a reboot after that fails!

In any case I see no advantage to using Armbian as the Radxa image boots fine from NVME and they both use the same antiquated kernel.

as far as i know the radxa image doesnt support hardware acceleration
and try to boot armbian from sd/emmc with the nvme installed

I am asking myself why the radxa team does not implement the hw acceleration similar to Armbian.
Glxgears Radxa ~850fps Glxgears Armbian ~125o fps standard installation.
I have the problem that Armbian is only starting fro sd-card with a trivial power supply.
With an NVME it goes ito a loop.
Any improvement from Radxa would be highly appreciated.
regards
Uli

Do you have the board hanging at boot with blue led staying on forever? It happened to me with Armbian installed on NVMe (and also with Android on sd-card)…
I had to restart my board several times (plug/unplug power) until it finally boots which was quite annoying.

Since I moved to Arch this issue has disappeared and board boots fine as it used to do with official radxa image. Plus now Arch has a package for graphics acceleration so for me no point in using
Armbian anymore.

from where did you get the image?

This has nothing to do with Armbian. Powering on this board is broken.

In my experiments, nvme boot troubles are random / related to powering. If you give more voltage then 5V, it becomes stable …

BTW, Arch is using Armbian kernel:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-rockchip-rk3588-bin

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AFAIK there are two versions, one with armbian and the other using radxa kernel not yet published in AUR (using @boogiepop repository).
Haven’t tried the AUR version so do not know if boot issue is related.
(just to mention I am using a PD supply not a fixed voltage one)

you mean hardware issue? :frowning:

are there prebuild archlinux images for rock 5b avvialible?

yes

According to this script:


he is repacking this kernel

Well, if there is some improved radxa kernel, Armbian will jump at once, but there is not :frowning: Mainline kernel based images are too far away.

Yeah this package is extracting kernel from official image for now until it provides a way to compile custom kernel (probably from build-kernel-on-5b I suppose).

I don’t know much about kernel nor how the armbian one is built

(I believe BSP kernel is the only choice we got for now? as mainline is far from being usable right),

I’m pretty sure however is there is a difference related to boot between radxa based image and armbian at least regarding issue i had.

I still don’t understand why there would be a difference. With the same SPI flash, as programmed by the Armbian settup, booting from nvme works every time with the Radxa image, but not with the Armbian image. Same kernel, same SPI flash bootloader, what’s the difference?

面倒なSPI操作後、armbianも動かしてみました感想です。たしかに、何回もスイッチを繰り返さないとブートできないですね。chromeとfirefoxを比べると、chromeがやたらと重いです。flutterは、まともにコンパイル&動作できました。最後に、ax210を使っているのですが、最新のlinux-firmwareから/lib/firmwareにコピーすれば動作できます。armbianスタッフへ、これからも頑張ってください。

please in english thankyou

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