ArchLinux on PBP

[robieguarneros]

Hello. I’ve had the PBP for a little while now and I’ve used Manjaro and Kali. I like both of them a lot, but I want to go in a little deeper and make a fresh Arch Linux so that I can learn more. I’ve tried installing Arch before but I failed and I had booting problems. So I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to help me install it. Like give me a step by step guide to how to install up to a point where it is functional and I can install my own stuff. I know there is an official Arch release now, I just don’t know how to setup everything properly. Thanks for the help!

[rimaille]

https://github.com/nadiaholmquist/archis.../README.md
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

[robieguarneros]

https://github.com/nadiaholmquist/archis.../README.md
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

Thanks for your reply. I have already used this guide, but I don’t know if it is missing steps or something because when I got to the part about writing the extlinux.conf file then I couldn’t boot back. When I was writing the file, it said this file did not exist and I wrote a new but I don’t know if that’s actually the way to do it. Could you please tell me if this is the way to do it, maybe I’m missing something.
Thanks!

[rimaille]

If you're not familiar with linux, i doubt arch will be the right choice.
Anyway, maybe you've forgotten to do it as root or with sudo ?

[wdt]

If you have a manjaro SD, extlinux.conf will be in same place, be roughly the same
Some things, like root= will be different
Someone, on manjaro forum did this, I think uboot had to be bsp and dtb had to be manjaro
For SD boot, obviously uses emmc uboot which may or may not work
Since manjaro is an offshoot of arch, I'm not sure what arch would give that manjaro doesn't????
If you turn it on, you have access to arch repository, so.......
If you have something hacked, you have to pin what you hacked, or an update and it goes to shit
If it's on a SD, not a big deal, just pop into card reader (to fix), on emmc a bit more trouble

[lxn]

Someone, on manjaro forum did this, I think uboot had to be bsp and dtb had to be manjaro

Yep, for me (who you, wdt, helped on the manjaro forum) that was the case, but I also need the bsp uboot to run manjaro 20.xx versions on the eMMC. So if a pbp can run manjaro on the eMMC with the normal uboot it might run arch as well without installing bsp uboot.

[shjim]

https://github.com/nadiaholmquist/archis.../README.md
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

Thanks for your reply. I have already used this guide, but I don’t know if it is missing steps or something because when I got to the part about writing the extlinux.conf file then I couldn’t boot back. When I was writing the file, it said this file did not exist and I wrote a new but I don’t know if that’s actually the way to do it. Could you please tell me if this is the way to do it, maybe I’m missing something.
Thanks!

" but I don’t know if it is missing steps or something"



It all there in the links  @rimaille  posted....


" The instructions in installation guide in  (/root)  mostly apply, however there are some things specific to the Pinebook Pro to be aware of "

It basic Arch install  + the info in the links

[lxn]

[quote pid='82206' dateline='1604254356']
The guides mentioned were the ones that worked the best for me also, but I found some other information helpful. This one is quite organized, but I recall it lacks some information, so I would always doublecheck with the arch wiki's installation guide.

If you're still having trouble with the /boot/extlinux/exlinux.conf file:

You do have to create it, and besides writing what's in the guides, be sure to replace <UUID> with the UUID of your partition. You can check this in /etc/fstab or with blkid.

For instance, from this output of blkid:

/dev/mmcblk2p2: UUID="262d2230-2d76-47a0-a5d8-b0af3a96c056" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="61897a41-5636-b943-8e33-c03e7430ffd3"

You extlinux.conf file should be:

    LABEL Arch Linux ARM
    KERNEL ../Image
    FDT ../dtbs/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
    APPEND initrd=../initramfs-linux.img console=tty1 rootwait root=UUID=262d2230-2d76-47a0-a5d8-b0af3a96c056 rw

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[as365n4]

I know Arch purists will blame me for cheating

But this is how I got my Pinebook Pro working with Arch --> https://github.com/as365n4/Arch_on_PinebookPro
and it worked fine since then without any issues.
(has an easy to read .pdf file as well)

[robieguarneros]

I know Arch purists will blame me for cheating

But this is how I got my Pinebook Pro working with Arch --> https://github.com/as365n4/Arch_on_PinebookPro
and it worked fine since then without any issues.
(has an easy to read .pdf file as well)

Thanks! It did help me