Will revert whether the new linux-vim-5.11.14 resolved the system freeze/kernel panic which happen quite frequently with linux-vim-5.11.4-1, 5.11.7-1, 5.11.11-1 and reboot/shutdown issues which encountered in mainline linux 5.11.y.
Edit: @spikerguy
Encounter 3 system freezes/kernel panics. First after 27 minutes on time (on Chromium) and followed by 2 consecutive kernel panics during Start Up/Boot Up. Looks like linux-vim-5.11.y have issue with kernel panic on GT King Pro.
Hi @spikerguy, Update on Linux-vim-5.11.14 kernel on GT King Pro
Does the linux-vim-5.11.14 or linux-vim-5.11.y comes with the u-boot.bin (NOT referring to the chainloader u-boot.ext)? I just had another 5th kernel panic during boot up time, this time around right before the Lightdm greeting screen (meaning after TTY text and screen blank with “_” freeze at this point). And 6th system freeze/kernel panic 8 minute after boot up while editing this message.
If the linux-vim-5.11.y does comes with its own u-boot.bin may suggest to use the linux-vim-5.10.5-1 or linux-vim-5.10.8-1 u-boot.bin which does not seems to cause kernel panic on GT King Pro.
Edit: Just in case I wasn’t clear. Linux-vim-5.11.14 does reboot just that sometimes it cannot complete the reboot as kernel panic strike during the boot up or right after boot up. Whereas as in linux-5.11.y it cannot reboot or shutdown cleanly.
I had a hard time believing it was the card. Finally tried a usbflash and everything boots, set up complete, but I have no internet connection on the ethernet port.
Hi @JFL
Neil have worked on Uboot for chainloading, Can you give it a try on your GT King device and also test it with the usb drives connected to see if it boots fine.
Find the Uboot-$DEVICE.bin
Try GSkingX version first on your device. Then you can try others and see if they work.
With the USB Boot none of the new chainloader u-boot can access the GT King Pro emmc. Neither can the old chainloader u-boot.ext.
Edit3: New chainloader u-boot, linux-5.11.10-1 still cannot reboot or shutdown cleanly (ie. Keyboard LED sitll light up and need a power cycle to boot up again)
Edit 4: Of the three new chainloader u-boot, u-boot-n2.bin seems to be able to best boot up from a USB Flash.
Tried u-boot-gsking-x.bin on Manjaro-Arm-XFCE-linux-vim-5.11.14-1 on SD Card many times stuck on: “Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0”. Even if it clear the Hit any key to stop autoboot, linux-vim-5.11.14-1 kernel panic during boot (linux-vim 5.11.14-1 issue).
u-boot-n2.bin so far seems to be better than u-boot-gsking-x.bin in terms of clearing the initial boot process but linux-vim-5.11.14-1 still kernel panic most of the time during boot process.
Edit 5: Bottom line, u-boot-n2.bin chainloader seems have the same limitation as the previous chainloader u-boot.ext (from boot-vim3) as far as I can tell both boot up consistently.
u-boot-gsking-x.bin boot up performance not as consistent as u-boot-n2.ext.
u-boot-vim3.bin seems to have the worst boot up performance (failed to boot up 4 times).
FYI, have to move on to linux-5.11.16-1 instead of linux-vim-5.11.14-1 (to frequent kernel panic on GT King Pro).
Hi guys, i have 3 tv boxes (amlogic of course, km9=coreELEC, km8p=actually armbian old version and x96mini=back to android after crashing my boot partition from armbian 5.72 as the last 5.9 won’t install on emmc) which are not supported anymore by balbes150 and after some google search i’ve stopped by here and enjoyed what i read !
I read the thread from start and see 2 things about x96mini (s905w) but i’m a bit confuse.
Which build do i have to download to install it on mine ? VIM2 or VIM3 ? I want to run a small docker-ce on it from emmc (as i did on armbian, don’t really need DE).
Do the script to install on emmc from 1 post for minimal working or do i have to install desktop version and execute the installer application ? Thanks.
Thanks for your reply. I already tested with vim3 minimal and change dtb + rename uboot file (as on armbian).
It boots on sd and run after all.
It Failed to install on emmc with the script.
I’ll try to run vim2 from xfce and see how it works
Any chance to install it on emmc with the installer gui app ?
Sorry I didn’t have time to test it at my HK1 Box. Anyway this is something that was tested successfully some time ago, but in Armbian and older builds.
If I find some time I will try and report back.
For the HK1Box this definitly still works, but it seems like newer versions of a similar TVbox have some internal changes. I have two versions, one a HK1Box which works fine as you described, and one H96Max x3 that has a much more recent mainboard revision and doesn’t boot at all so far.
