Hi Everyone,


So I have this X96 Mini Android Tv box and I have been spending a lot of time trying to run Kali on it via USB.


I initially tried running Armbian, got it to work. (Thanks to some tutorials)


So being able to run Armbian, I decided to try running Kali on it. I honestly have no idea what I am doing wrong. I could be missing a few steps I guess but there is very limited documentation on it (even on kali.org)


So here are (somewhat) the steps I followed:

  1. Download ODROID-C2 - https://www.kali.org/docs/arm/odroid-c2/
  2. Use balenaEtcher to burn the IMG to the USB
  3. Tried to boot it on the tv box. (failed - it just booted into the android recovery screen)
  4. I then used Ubuntu (VMWare) to try and edit the u-boot file to make it work.
  5. I tried to change the U_BOOT_FDT_DIR path to direct to the folder for meson-gxl-s905w-p281.dtd
  6. I tried to modify the extlinux.conf file as well with no luck.



If there is anyone that can assist me, I will highly appreciate it. I'm somewhat new to Linux. I'm more of a windows person, but I learn quickly.