Running Android or Linux from an SD card on a RK3288 device - An easy way to dual boot

[Gormar]

Trying to get drive mounted caused critical error following a post to change system file at start up. Ive blown away and installed fresh again. Leaving it for bit before i end up buying new pc lmao.

Strange. Did you use correct device. /dev/sdc might be a harddrive. Or there was some kind of hardware failure.

[scooter2014]

No it was alter file that post told me to do all reloaded fine ill have to find step by step to make it so i can exécute from hd so once i get the drives mounted ill try again.

[scooter2014]

Got it working with Chmod command. But i am using linux mint. I got it to boot and run but playstore wont open i can open a browser but not playstore seems network goofy.

[rietas]

Hi,

I'm newbie from Finland and 59 years old female...
I have tried to flash sdcard for 2 days. The problem is that I cannot find any proper Android or/and Linux img file.

1. with default Linux*) I cannot get wifi working (I tried on command line (being root) but reply was something like "no device")
2 with Android I didn't find any decent image file. The error was "no resource img found" when trying to flash sdcard
*) linux distro included in 'create-sdcard.7z'

My HW is:
Rikomagic MK802V hardware specs:
– CPU : Rockchip RK3288 – quad core, 28nm, ARM Cortex-A17, up to1.8GHz
– GPU: Mali-T764
– RAM: 2GB
– ROM : 16GB
– Ethernet : Gigabit
– Wi-fi : dual band 2.4GHz/5GHz (802.11 b/g/n and 802.11 a/c)
– Bluetooth : 4.0
– SD Card : up to 32GB


My aim is to use this dongle for watching videos like Youtube etc. on my 46" TV. (wifi connection speed is about 20-30 Mbits/sI). I prefer Linux but most important is good picture quality.
Please could someone put here links to image files.

Rgs. rietas

[scooter2014]

You make mistake 802 not 3288 but 31 and V5 is 3288 so you have to use link after super celeron post in 1st page of this forum. For the 802v. You will get some improvement in linux but Only in kodi with mac fixes. We ok with you being Female and Even that your from FINLAND.  post 5

[rietas]

Yep, we are advanced here in Finland. Even my mother (age of 85) uses openSUSE.

But back to business...
I don't quite understand the sentence "You make mistake 802 not 3288 but 31 and V5 is 3288". Do you mean my dongle is 3188 not 3288? However this is what I manage to output when the dongle was still working somehow:

Processor ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v7l)
Memory 2068MB (639MB used)
Resolution 1920x1080 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
Audio Adapter RK-HDMI-I2S - RK-HDMI-I2S
Audio Adapter RK-HDMI-SPDIF - RK-HDMI-SPDIF

And this is what I bought: http://www.cloudsto.com/products/lin...ge-detail.html

Do you mean this link:

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/general-tv-player-dicussions/linux-picuntu-ubuntu-ports/14143-sd-card-booting-without-flashing-your-device?13617-SD-Card-booting-without-flashing-your-device=

Sorry, my English is not so good that I can follow many if-then-elsedo brances (I mean link after link).

[scooter2014]

Ok understood... Then flash the original firmware from the uk forum site for ricomagic. His build was made by him and devices not sold from china site. If you camt find a link to the software let me know i send email to ricomagic. But they should have a way to re download original linux firmware from forum. Going back to stock sometimes get device working again. 

[rietas]

Well, I flashed the dongle badly and now I cannot flash it any more. It won't go to "root mode" ("press the switch with paperclip and connect the USB cable" procedure). So the dongle doesn't work at all and I don't want to open it to make a short-circuit (if it is needed to reset dongle).
The dongle restarts from sdcard but I don't have proper image files to try which is better Android or Linux and that's I need the download links for.
Simply I need SW which is fast enought to show video smoothly and the browser has Adobe Flash Player, HTML5 etc.

[amclean123]

you are doing it right the binaries you have are 64 bit though https://github.com/naobsd/rkutils if you want to compile the 32 bit ones. Youll have to install linux properly though and at the very least youll need to install build-essential type apt-get install build-essential to get it.

in the terminal
just type
gcc rkunpack.c -o rkunpack
gcc rkcrc.c -o rkcrc

and youll have the 32 bit versions you need.

linuxium posted the link before on this thread where to get mkkrnlimg if you have problems compiling them two programs ill do it for you.

Update: I checked all the binaries they are all 32 bit accept the rkunpack and rkcrc i complied 32 bit versions for you and anyone that needs them grab them here < [ATTACH]9630[/ATTACH] > and copy them to the Tools directory

Thank you for the 32bit files!

[spon901]

I have a Beelink RK3288.
I tried to install linux on sdcard using create-linux-sdcard script and everything works as expected. The box bot and works fine with some minor issues(not able to reboot or shutdown, only poweroff-powron)., but this is not the problem. Then, because I need to change some linux kernel settings, I was able to compile kernel 3.10 from firefly and was able to just replace kernel-linux.img with the one compiled, and again everything was fine. But using both kernel I was not able to install machybrys to allow full vide acceleration ( the installation succeed without errors, but it is not working). I want then to use the other approach. Build kernel from
https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel.git. The compilation succeed, but wan not able to boot. I tried to replace just kernel in linux-kernel.img, I tried to use the guide from rockchip-linux site formatting the sdcard, without parameter file but with extlink.conf using u-boot compiled as well. But no matter what I did the result is the same. The screen is black and no signal appear. As dtb I use several (the one from original firmware, the one from wasser firmware, the one from above link, also the firefly one. Does anybody know hot to boot with kernel 4.4 ? This implementation of hardware accelerated, even if it just partial, seem more cleaner than using machybris. The loader that I use know is te one from Wasser Lolipop firmware. Maybe is not the correct one, need to be upgraded for kernel 4.4 ? Thank You

[amclean123]

I have a Beelink RK3288.
I tried to install linux on sdcard using create-linux-sdcard script and everything works as expected. The box bot and works fine with some minor issues(not able to reboot or shutdown, only poweroff-powron)., but this is not the problem. Then, because I need to change some linux kernel settings, I was able to compile kernel 3.10 from firefly and was able to just replace kernel-linux.img with the one compiled, and again everything was fine. But using both kernel I was not able to install machybrys to allow full vide acceleration ( the installation succeed without errors, but it is not working). I want then to use the other approach. Build kernel from
https://github.com/rockchip-linux/kernel.git. The compilation succeed, but wan not able to boot. I tried to replace just kernel in linux-kernel.img, I tried to use the guide from rockchip-linux site formatting the sdcard, without parameter file but with extlink.conf using u-boot compiled as well. But no matter what I did the result is the same. The screen is black and no signal appear. As dtb I use several (the one from original firmware, the one from wasser firmware, the one from above link, also the firefly one. Does anybody know hot to boot with kernel 4.4 ? This implementation of hardware accelerated, even if it just partial, seem more cleaner than using machybris. The loader that I use know is te one from Wasser Lolipop firmware. Maybe is not the correct one, need to be upgraded for kernel 4.4 ? Thank You

Would it help to use the Wasser 4.x Roms? http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...or-beelink-r89

[spon901]

My intention was to run linux from sdcard having 4.4 kernel ( I want to be able to change it and compile.) Currently what methods I was not able to boot with any other kernel than firefly's 3.10 version and of course the one tht came with createlinuxsdcard.
I suspect that maybe I need to update bootloader on emmc. Currently it is version 2.17. I want to be able to boot WASSER lolipop that is installed on emmc, and if I insert the sdcard to be able to boot in linux.

[Gormar]

Maybe this will help: http://www.bitkistl.com/2016/10/ugoo...om.html?q=miqi.
If I remember correctly UT3 firmwares can work on Beelink R89 devices and similar with some problems.

[spon901]

Unfortunatelly that image written on a sdcard also not work. I really don't know what to do. Maybe that image is intended only for emmc. Or the emmc loader is not the correct version.

[forddim]

Unfortunatelly that image written on a sdcard also not work. I really don't know what to do. Maybe that image is intended only for emmc. Or the emmc loader is not the correct version.

Try this image with HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool:
https://yadi.sk/d/O0vQR3NW338YM8