MiniArch for h6/h616/rk3399/3566/3568/s905/s912/sm1/g12

ARM Installation
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Hi,

If anybody is bored with SD card partitioning, manual flashing boot loader on
h6/h616, rk3399/3566/3568, s905/s912/sm1/g12 SBC/TVboxes - maybe https://github.com/warpme/miniarch can be helpful?

what is is: https://github.com/warpme/miniarch#what-it-is

this is early alpha - so bugs/issues are highly probable

to quick start - pls look https://github.com/warpme/miniarch#quick-start

to install EOS - type “start” and use option 5

in case any issues - pls use GitHub issue reporting: https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/issues

happy burning!

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Never get bored :innocent:. we all different + i sure it be a great help for some/new usr. I wish you all best on your project. :pray: for share this interesting project on forum. :vulcan_salute:

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I have tried your image but can not connect to internet. Can you explain how to do with usb tethering?

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does it work on radxa rock5b with rk3588?
what do you do for uboot?

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Not Yet :frowning:
I asked Radxa to provide me rock5b HW for development.
Awaiting for HW…

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Here s the best I have come up with

https://wiki.radxa.com/Rock5/linux/debian

### Partition table

|Part Number|Offset|Name|Description|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|(raw)|32KB|loader1|First stage loader|
|(raw)|8MB|loader2|U-boot image|
|1|16MB|boot|Kernel partition, bootable|
|2|528MB|rootfs|Rootfs|

Offset when writing using **dd**

dd if=idbloader.img   of=/dev/sdx seek=64
dd if=u-boot.itb      of=/dev/sdx seek=16384 
dd if=boot.img        of=/dev/sdx seek=32768 
dd if=rootfs.img      of=/dev/sdx seek=1081344

I wasn’t able to come up with anything that works.

Pudge

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I have a working debian too, albiet with bad graphics (some pixels are off on xfce and the screen resolution is wrong, clipping the edges)

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Go here to see how armbian installs some packages for 3D acceleration.

In order to enable 3D acceleration:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/panfork-mesa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liujianfeng1994/rockchip-multimedia
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

Pudge

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Oddly I found these miniarch images and THEN found EOS because of them, not the other way around. With a bit of help from warpme I was able to get this going on my H6 based T95 max STB, and a simple DD to the internal mmc storage got me booting MiniArch from trhe device.

Originally, I was going to set this up as an octoprint server, as I have a persistent USB issue with my PI, but I found that the box had even worse USB issues talking to my printer, so plan B is to make this into a small portable station for my ham radio hobby (addiction). Currently building wsjtx now!