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Attempting to install Void Linux, boots into a black screen - 9a3eedi - 02-18-2024
Hello,
I decided to replace Manjaro on my PBP and try out Void Linux. I never used it before, but would like to see how well it works with musl on the pinebook pro, since Manjaro felt a little heavy on it. I followed the instructions here, https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pro_Installing_Void_Linux_ARM, with the following notes:
- I used a Manjaro live environment to do the configuration, and I booted the live environment from an SD card
- I first followed the Arch tutorial to flash Tow-Boot and create the partitions. I used ext4 for both the boot and root partitions.
- I then extracted the void rootfs into the root partition, then chrooted into it, and started following the void tutorial located here while avoiding any boot-loader related instructions. I updated xbps and installed base-system and also set the root password. I did not install grub because I figured Tow-Boot woudl be doing the booting
- I installed the pinebookpro-kernel package with xbps because I didn't want to build my own kernel.
- I installed the u-boot-menu
- Despite what the instructions said, I had to write my own extlinux.conf and I made sure to point to the right kernel file, and that fdt points to the right file
Now when I boot from eMMC with Tow-Boot, I get some garbled video, and then it's a black screen, so I can't really tell what's going on. I feel like I'm getting really close, but I'm not sure what I did wrong. Can anyone help?
RE: Attempting to install Void Linux, boots into a black screen - throwawayforvoid - 09-28-2024
Hey,
Not sure if you managed to solve this yet, but I'm just putting this out for others facing the same problem.
When following the guide it seems you can completely skip installing pinebookpro-kernel and u-boot-menu.
Instead you should install pinebookpro-base, this seems to install a bunch of packages needed to succesfully boot.
This also creates a U-Boot script for you, so you can skip creating the extlinux file.
The rest of the guide stays the same.
This fixed te blacks screen issue for me, so it might also fix it for others.
Cheers!