BPI-M2 Zero Armbian 5.41 3.4.113 (Debian Jessie, Ubuntu Xenial)

Banana Pi SBCs design BPI-M2+/BPI-M2 Zero/BPI-P2 Zero(H3)
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Older images keep breaking on me if i try to update, due to changes in the dt-file i think. So i build my own, maybe somebody else will get some use out of it.

Debian Jessie http://www.mediafire.com/file/rd58jqjp1vyx61e/Armbian_5.41_Bananapim2zero_Debian_jessie_default_3.4.113.img.zip

Ubuntu Xenial http://www.mediafire.com/file/lblc0l0c41c3cj8/Armbian_5.41_Bananapim2zero_Ubuntu_xenial_default_3.4.113_desktop.img.zip

I build both images with default config and patches for M2 zero. As I just needed a recent image for some quick testing I did not change anything.

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very cool ,thank you share this image.

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For me it works ok. The only problem is the display configuration, possible only by the command h3disp. Is it possible change by setting menu?

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Hi g33k,

Do you have source for the creating the boot FAT image I have been trying to do this but have not had time to complete it. If you could share it on ideally on GitHub or post or send me some instructions - [email protected]

Thanks,

Aaron

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@ronfa I only ran it in a headless setup, but since the patches for M2 zero are applied i would expect to work out of the box or by using armbian-config.

@AaronNGray

Check out compile.sh for how its done. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/

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@g33k - I tried the M2 with 8-core mod Armbian build a while back but it did not produce a VFAT partition only the EXT3 one in the image.

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Now I see where you are coming from. I am not able to check right now, but I guess it’s ext4 which uboot is able to read. No need for vfat partition.

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Hi g33k,

After cloning why the wlan0 is getting renamed to wlan1?

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Hi All, what’s the default user password? Can’t seem to get any of the usuals to work.

Thanks

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No Worries. root / 1234 worked eventually. Fat fingers??

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Did you manage to get USB-OTG working with any input device, preferably as USB host (so that hubs etc. work)? I built Armbian on my own, based on Ubuntu 18.04, twice so I could test with both recent kernels (5.1 and 4.19), and this is the only part of BPI-M2Z which doesn’t work for me. No trace in dmesg of any plugging-unplugging, usb devices get the power (pwr light on passive usb hub) but nothing beyond that. And I’d like to be able to use it other than with just ssh.

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All right, works as USB Host, needed a change in dr_mode from “otg” to “host” and all usb peripherals now work as expected. The required steps for recent Armbian are (all as root):

cd /boot/dtb
cp sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dtb sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dtb.old # backup
dtc -I dtb sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dtb -O dts -o sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dts
nano sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dts # change dr_mode from "otg" to "host"
dtc -I dts -O dtb -o sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dtb sun8i-h2-plus-bananapi-m2-zero.dts
reboot
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I am stuck at choosing OS I have tried Raspbian on my banana pi m2 zero ,but the ssh server doesn’t come pre installed , so I managed to install it externally . I have decided to move on to different OS suggest me one and also Am I going to get i2C support in other OS and A CSI support , I will be using python to write script will any OS support python SMBUS and python picamera library.