odroidn2
By Nico Andy Dekerf / General purpose • Desktop / 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.
nanopi-r1
By Test Test / General purpose / 0 Comments

Nanopi R1

  • serial console is enabled on UART1, which is exposed on chasis,
  • mUSB console is also enabled for login
  • Bluetooth is not yet enabled.
  • One Ethernet device gets random MAC
orangepi-rk3399
By Igor Pečovnik / General purpose • NAS • Desktop / 0 Comments

Orange Pi RK3399

  • UART has unusual speed: 1500000
  • boot from SD card is possible by shorting TP50265 to the ground and powering the board. After Armbian boots up, you can overwrite eMMC. You need to do this procedure only once or in case you totally brick your system.
  • once you have Armbian booting from eMMC, you can boot SD card in more simple manner: stop booting from UART console and execute those commands: setenv devnum 1 followed by run mmc_boot
  • you need to use EXPERT="yes" to build kernel or images.
rockpro64
By Joe Khoobyar / NAS • Desktop • General purpose / 0 Comments

RockPro64

  • UART is accessible on pin 6 (GND),8 (TX) and 10 (RX) and with unusual speed: 1500000
  • flash the 128M SPI memory to also boot from USB or PXE (it if goes wrong, follow these instructions)
  • short-pressing (~1s) the power button turns the board on, long-pressing it (~3s) turns it off. If it gets stuck while halting, press the reset button. If it does not boot (ie the white led does not come up), reset, then power on.
  • if you experience USB3 storage lack of reliability (error messages followed by filesystem corruption), check your power supply, usb cable and connectors and disk/ssd. All these factors can lead to undervoltage issues (some ssd could produce power consumption spikes triggering undervoltage).
nanopim4
By Test Test / General purpose / 0 Comments

Nanopi M4

  • UART is accessible on a standard connector but with unusual speed: 1500000
  • If you don’t have USB Type-C PSU, you can power the board via pins 4 (5V) and 6 (GND) of the 40-pin GPIO1 header
  • Powering related troubles are possible since USB Type-C is not PD-compliant