Turing Pi

How to Install Armbian on the Turing RK1 on the Turing Pi board - Boot from MMC

References:
https://codingfield.com/blog/2024-01/install-armbian-and-proxmox-on-orangepi5plus/
https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/installfromdebian.html

Download Armbian Releases
Keyword in image filename Turing_RK1 and minimal:
https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.100/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Turing-rk1_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz

Extract the image file and flash the turing Pi using the web interface on the correct Node:

[Info 22-12-2025]

The image is now installed on the mmc of the RK1

Login on the Turin Pi and open an an emulated TTY session to the node:

picocom /dev/ttyS2 -b 115200 # Connect to Node 2, pay attention to the version of your BMC firmware!!

Restart the node using the Turing Pi web interface.

Interrupt the boot in the emulated TTY session by entering any key when the interrups boot message appears.

Set the boot drive to mmc with the following commands:

setenv boot_targets mmc0
boot

Follow Armbian setup instructions during the first boot.

Change Hostname by adjusting the following files:

/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts

Reboot machine

Follow instructions on https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/installfromdebian.html

Changed /etc/network/interfaces:

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface end0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
         address 192.168.1.12/24
         gateway 192.168.1.1
         bridge-ports end0
         bridge-stp off
         bridge-fd 0

1. Add the DNS servers to /etc/systemd/resolved.conf:

[Resolve]
DNS=1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8

2. restart systemd-resolved

systemctl restart systemd-resolved

3. Check your settings with resolvectl status:

$ resolvectl status
Global
         Protocols: -LLMNR +mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported
  resolv.conf mode: stub
Current DNS Server: 1.1.1.1
       DNS Servers: 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8
        DNS Domain: your.search.domain

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How to Install Armbian on the Turing RK1 on the Turing Pi board - Boot from NVME

Download Armbian Releases
Keyword in image filename Turing_RK1 and minimal:
https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.100/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Turing-rk1_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz

Extract the image file and flash the turing Pi using the web interface on the correct Node:

[Info 22-12-2025]

The image is now installed on the mmc of the RK1

Login on the Turin Pi and open an an emulated TTY session to the node:

picocom /dev/ttyS2 -b 115200 # Connect to Node 2, pay attention to the version of your BMC firmware!!

Restart the node using the Turing Pi web interface.

Interrupt the boot in the emulated TTY session by entering any key when the interrups boot message appears.

Set the boot drive to mmc with the following commands:

setenv boot_targets mmc0
boot

Follow Armbian setup instructions during the first boot.

After the bash appears:

Download the minimal RK1 Armbian image to the mmc with the following command:

wget https://github.com/armbian/community/releases/download/26.2.0-trunk.100/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Turing-rk1_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img.xz

Unzip and copy the image to the nvme drive:

sudo xzcat /root/Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Turing-rk1_trixie_vendor_6.1.115_minimal.img/ | sudo dd of=/dev/nvme0n1 bs=1M status=progress

Download the turing-rk1-uboot-only.zip from https://www.nico-maas.de/?p=2669

Unzip the image and use that file to flash the node again.

References:
https://forum.turingpi.com/t/26782959/talos-ubuntu-dual-boot-guide
https://docs.turingpi.com/docs/tpi-uart
https://docs.radxa.com/en/rock3/rock3b/getting-started/install-os/nvme
https://www.nico-maas.de/?p=2669

Install Proxmox for ARM based computers

https://codingfield.com/blog/2024-01/install-armbian-and-proxmox-on-orangepi5plus/

https://github.com/jiangcuo/pxvirt
https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/README.html

As per inststructions:

Adjusted /etc/hosts

/etc/network/interfaces

# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface end0 inet manual

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
         address 192.168.1.12/24
         gateway 192.168.1.1
         bridge-ports end0
         bridge-stp off
         bridge-fd 0

/etc/resolv.conf

Change to point to the correct nameserver, default it was pointing to 127.0.0.54

Problem: after install their was no Proxmox webui.

Investigate: checking if the proxmox service was up and running with the following command:

systemctl status pveproxy.service

Result: Service was running, but the following error was shown:

/etc/pve/local/pve-ssl.key: failed to load local private key (key_file or key) at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/APIServer/AnyEvent.pm line 2148.

Continue investigation:

The following two commands gave the same  error:

pvenode cert info

pvecm status

Error message:

ipcc_send_rec[1] failed: Connection refused
ipcc_send_rec[2] failed: Connection refused
ipcc_send_rec[3] failed: Connection refused
Unable to load access control list: Connection refused

2 Issues:

1. the hostname was different in /etc/hostname (turing-rk1 instead of pxvirt02)
2. There was still a reference in /etc/hosts to turing-rk1 behind the line starting with "::1"

Rebooted the machine and waited a minute or so. It took some time before the pveproxy.service was started.

Now I could access the Proxmox Web UI.

Install Armbian VM in Proxmox

To Test:

https://docs.pxvirt.lierfang.com/en/setup/Linux-on-port.html

https://www.openeuler.org/en/download/archive/detail/?version=openEuler%2024.03%20LTS%20SP2

VM wouldn't start, showing the following message:

Solution: Define CPU Affinity "0-3" under Proxmox VM Processors [Advanced Settings]

Cause: "To sum up, the problem with booting kvm VMs only happens when a mix of A55 and A76 are enabled. I confirmed that by disabling [0,1,4,5].
With only A76 cores or only A55 cores, booting a kvm VM works." Source: https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip/issues/731

 

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-convert-raspberry-pi-os-images-and-import-to-proxmox.146837/

https://digisden.com/posts/installing-proxmox-on-a-turing-pi-rk1/