Fixing Boot on HG680P

[rapdodge]

Dear @ophub,

So, i installed armbian on my HG680P emmc using armbian-install, and it's already okay... But when i'm restarting it, my STB didnt responding until i'm inserting and sdcard that already burn by bootcardmaker with HG680P u-boot...

Do you have any idea to fix the bootloader (?)

Here's the HG680P u-boot file, it's 4MB u-boot...
uboot.zip

[rapdodge]

Some small updates... I'm using my friend script to installing it to EMMC, its booted up, but cant enter the system...

install-emmc.zip <- inside the archive, there is an uboot, installer script, and fstab file...

[rapdodge]

It's working now, after some small touch after running armbian-install

dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=1 count=442
dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=512 skip=1 seek=1

Hope it will be adopted to armbian-install in the future for HG680P and B860H series (idk, why B860H using HG bootloader, but, it's work)

[ophub]

Can you test this U-BOOT to start normally? Which version of the kernel did you test?

I use u-boot-p212.bin to boot fine on my HG680P device

[rapdodge]

Already tested it and running perfectly without any issues...

I'm using 5.15.35, yesterday build...

I got the uboot is from Indonesian community, and for B860H in Indonesia, we should change the uboot to HG680P

https://youtu.be/fzf6uXTZ8pw

[ophub]

This is the previous discussion： #60

[imam1986]

Hey, I used B860H and HG860P too.
There should be a mention somewhere in documentation, according this 2 STB.
There are some variant and the handling should be different. HG680P there is 2 or 3 variant, with 1GB or 2GB RAM, but also the old (s905) and the new one (s905x). For the B860H, v1 (s905) 1GB, v2 2GB, v2.1 (s905x) 2GB and the mysterious V5 (s905x2). The usual hg680p bootloader could not work on V5 after dd command, from ls -lH it revert back to the original. (Cmiiw, maybe I'm wrong about the chipset)
And, I'm still wondering the use of u-boot, is it some kind of bios or something :D

[ophub]

You test the 5.10/5.17 kernel, Currently this u-boot is not used under 5.15, you test 5.10 and 5.17
armbian-update 5.10.112
armbian-update 5.17.4

[rapdodge]

This is the previous discussion： #60

Uboot p212 i think it automatically installed when we installing to emmc via armbian-install, right? And it's not working, just blank on my monitor...

So, I'm using 4M uboot and direct dd on the emmc

[rapdodge]

Hey, I used B860H and HG860P too.
There should be a mention somewhere in documentation, according this 2 STB.
There are some variant and the handling should be different. HG680P there is 2 or 3 variant, with 1GB or 2GB RAM, but also the old (s905) and the new one (s905x). For the B860H, v1 (s905) 1GB, v2 2GB, v2.1 (s905x) 2GB and the mysterious V5 (s905x2). The usual hg680p bootloader could not work on V5 after dd command, from ls -lH it revert back to the original. (Cmiiw, maybe I'm wrong about the chipset)
And, I'm still wondering the use of u-boot, is it some kind of bios or something :D

Yes, I'm trying the HG680P S905X with 1GB RAM now, after this i will test on my B860H v1 (1GB RAM)

Until now, it's works perfectly, I'm installing docker right now 🤣

[ophub]

Is the uboot.bin file from the Android system or the mainline kernel?

[rapdodge]

You test the 5.10/5.17 kernel, Currently this u-boot is not used under 5.15, you test 5.10 and 5.17
armbian-update 5.10.112
armbian-update 5.17.4

Okay, i will testing it...

[rapdodge]

Is the uboot.bin file from the Android system or the mainline kernel?

I'm using from android system (4M)

[imam1986]

dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=1 count=442 dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=512 skip=1 seek=1

Can you post the exact command?
Especially {MMC}, please.
And, when? After short pin? Or Armbian on sdcard?

[rapdodge]

dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=1 count=442 dd if={HG680P u-boot} of={MMC} conv=fsync bs=512 skip=1 seek=1

Can you post the exact command? Especially {MMC}, please. And, when? After short pin? Or Armbian on sdcard?

dd if=uboot.bin of=/dev/mmcblk2 (<- please be adjusted) conv=fsync bs=1 count=442
dd if=uboot.bin of=/dev/mmcblk2 (<- please be adjusted) conv=fsync bs=512 skip=1 seek=1

uboot.bin is HG680P uboot (4M), you can get it from upper post

[rapdodge]

Dear @ophub,

I think its not successful... (5.10.112)