I tried openmediavault arm64 and armhf, from the SD card and from MMC, and got really weird issues.  armhf had graphical corruption issues. arm64 would throw some SIP error every time a key was typed or a button was clicked. Neither OMV could get an IP (according to the prompt, anyway)

Android found the ethernet and got an IP, but won't travel outside the network. (I cant ping anything or load a page.) Armbian seems to be the only thing that works on this so far.

images here: https://imgur.com/a/QC7kvWM

The ROCK64 stock version Android Oreo ver 8,1 for microSD boot just released and here is the PINE64 wiki site download link: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_...ndroid_8.x

Here is the ROCK64 stock version Android Oreo ver 8,1 for eMMC boot download link: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/ROCK64_...d_8.x_eMMC

The ROCK64 Android Oreo ver8.1 SDK currently unloading to file server. However, this is a 67GB file and will takes some time on file uploading.

I am trying to move my NAS from a RPi2 to a ROCK64 (4GB).  Everything is working except I can't get the drives to mount at startup.  In the RPi version, it was done by adding the drive info to the fstab file.  When I do that on the ROCK64, it hangs during boot.  I can mount them manually on the command line via Putty on my Windows 10 Desktop.  After they are mounted, everything is working well, but if something causes the ROCK64 to reboot, I can't see the drives on the LAN until I mount them.  I wrote a script to mount the four drives with one command line, but I would like to have them mount automatically at startup.  I am running stretch-mate-rock64-0.5.15-136-20171222-arm64.

So I imagine the greatest interest in this SBC is the PCIe slot, so what have people used that slot for yet?
Are there any good drivers out there in the ARM world yet that people who aren't pro Linux programmers and kernel compilers can use?
I personally have plenty of small ARM boards and still need to make full use of my Rock64 board,
While I would like to have a newer CPU and GPU, all I would use it for is a glorified small form factor Linux desktop computer.
Is there anything that PCIe slot can do that would make it worthwhile the $80?
I would like to slap a affordable Nvidia GPU in that slot, is there any ARM based Linux that could drive it as a display adapter? Has anyone ran the Nouveau driver under an ARM environment before?

Thanks for any help,
MobileJAD.

How to clean the card emmc?

Hi everyone,

The Rock64Pro looks like it would make for a perfect home made nbase-t usb3 adapter, assuming that the type-c port can operate in peripheral superspeed mode. Some parts of the website indicate that the type-c port has otg support in which case I think it would be the Rock64pro would be able to behave as usb device for another computer. Also it is unclear whether the usb-c port operates in superspeed mode as either a host or a peripheral. Can someone confirm that it will behave as a superspeed peripheral?

Assuming that it can act as a superspeed type-c peripheral, then it may be possible to install an 10Gbe ethernet card into the x4 slot and turn the whole thing into a 10Gbe type-c ethernet adapter. 

Does anyone see any obvious obstacles to this idea?

Thanks

Hi,

I have just received my new ROCK64 2G, I burned the Debian on the SD card and it succeeded. But when I put the SD card into it, nothing happened. The STBY LED, PWR LED, IR LED lighted up but when I plugged it with the TV screen through HDMI, the TV screen didn't show up anything.

Is my ROCK64 dead or are the anything I need to config? Or are there any ways I can check for the life of my ROCK64?

Thank you

I found a way to install a number of OS's on the Rock64.
This may already be known but I thought I might pass it along.
1 Install bionic-minimal-rock64-0.6.44-139-arm64.img on you SD or eMMC card, or what ever is the current stable version
2Run bionic-minimal program, login (usually name=rock64 and pw=rock64.
3Now at the prompt issue   sudo apt-get install tasksel
4Next run   sudo tasksel and you will be presented with a list of OS's.
5With the curser move to the OS you want, I selected ubuntu mate that seems to run fairly good on the rock64
6Use the SPACE bar to select the OS, then tab to the OK and hit the ENTER key.
It may take some time to load.
Ubuntu Mate works great for me.

Rich Prim  

Hi! I flashed the SPI on my Rock64 4GB board so that I could boot from an external hard drive.

I then put ARM Arch Linux on the hard drive and it boots from the USB2 ports but the USB3 does not work at all. Regardless of what device I plug into it, even after the OS is running from the drive connected to USB2. It worked fine on Kernel 4.4 but seems to be broken in the latest.

Hello everyone,

I experience poor USB3 performance with my rock64 (apparently it happens to other too...)

My setup :

• stretch-openmediavault-rock64-0.6.44-239-armhf
  
• Seagate 3TB USB3 HDD in NTFS (good perf, at least 100MB/s r/w over windows)