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Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - Ulfnic - 02-06-2022
"The goal of Tow-Boot is to make booting boring."
Martijn Braam from PostMarketOS highlighted the recent development of Tow-Boot with a video of installing it on the Pinephone Pro.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufzAC4QADvY
More Links:
Website: https://tow-boot.org/
Git: https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot
Releases: https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/releases
About Tow-Boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCVcjwpDCYo
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - tmschmitz - 02-06-2022
Looks nice, but is there any way to extricate it from the packaging? I have no interest in installing nixos.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - Ulfnic - 02-07-2022
(02-06-2022, 11:44 AM)tmschmitz Wrote: Looks nice, but is there any way to extricate it from the packaging? I have no interest in installing nixos.
What do you mean by installing nixos? It's strictly a bootloader for loading whatever operating systems are present.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - lllsondowlll - 02-07-2022
Now if it could only be made to play nice with Pinephone Pro suspend which U-boot seems to be complicating. That's the only thing keeping me on Levinboot ATM.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - tmschmitz - 02-07-2022
I expect that I am missing the obvious, somewhere. I will explain my train of logic, and I would be grateful if you would help me find the path.
The getting-started.md file says to dd spi-installer.img to an sd card, and to boot from it. I watched the videos, and all that looks pretty easy. However, there is no file spi-installer.img in the git download, so I assume that I need to build it. I find no makefiles or instruction on how to do this, just .nix files.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - dukla2000 - 02-07-2022
(02-07-2022, 07:52 AM)tmschmitz Wrote: I expect that I am missing the obvious, somewhere. I will explain my train of logic, and I would be grateful if you would help me find the path.
The getting-started.md file says to dd spi-installer.img to an sd card, and to boot from it. I watched the videos, and all that looks pretty easy. However, there is no file spi-installer.img in the git download, so I assume that I need to build it. I find no makefiles or instruction on how to do this, just .nix files.
I am delighted you asked the question: I have exactly the same question/issue but decided if I had to ask it would mean I was an idiot (a segway from if I have to ask I can't afford it
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RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - tmschmitz - 02-07-2022
I guess I am used to looking like an idiot, so I just went ahead and blurted it out...
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - lllsondowlll - 02-07-2022
No, you guys are right, the last release is 20 days ago before this went live, so I'm not seeing an SPI image under releases, nor how to build it. Found a build from the pull request. They are test builds so this isn't out officially just yet.
EDIT: And Tow-Boot has single handedly fixed suspend and wake from suspend on PinePhone Pro. This feels like Christmas, no more dead battery after a couple of hours.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - dukla2000 - 02-08-2022
(02-07-2022, 03:46 PM)tmschmitz Wrote: I guess I am used to looking like an idiot, so I just went ahead and blurted it out...
OK - found a "WIP" version here that has the spi-installer.img for the PPP and that works great for me.
(02-07-2022, 09:56 PM)lllsondowlll Wrote: ...
EDIT: And Tow-Boot has single handedly fixed suspend and wake from suspend on PinePhone Pro. This feels like Christmas, no more dead battery after a couple of hours.
Yeah-but (if you ever saw Little Britain ...) after resume on a (Pine64) RK3399, at the moment the sound is a mess! Another WIP without any patch that I know of yet
Seems the way Tow-boot make resume work is that it is on the SPI - so far the necessary condition to cause resume fail was having the "in-use" bootloader on the eMMC. Hypothetically it would be interesting to test SPI blank, Tow-boot and OS on eMMC. Probably would fail to resume as, at heart, Tow-boot is just a U-boot wrapper.
RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - brb78 - 02-11-2022
(02-07-2022, 09:56 PM)lllsondowlll Wrote: EDIT: And Tow-Boot has single handedly fixed suspend and wake from suspend on PinePhone Pro. This feels like Christmas, no more dead battery after a couple of hours.
How much longer does it seem to run off battery?