Fedora on Pinephone

[pasifi808]

Hello everyone,

I posted this also on the Fedora forum, see here

I own a Pinephone 64 formerly with PostmarketOS and SXMO installed. I was happy when I read about Fedora Phosh 38 being available so I wanted to install it on my Pinephone. I downloaded the Fedora-Phosh-38-1.6.aarch64.raw.xz file from Fedora Phosh | The Fedora Project. Checksums did match, hence the file didn’t seem to be corrupted or anything. I connected and rebooted my Pinephone (which has TowBoot installed) and tried to write the downloaded file with Balena Etcher onto the eMMC. This left me with the message “Attention Something went wrong. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. The elevated process died unexpectedly”.

I then remembered that openSUSE also comes with a raw.xz image, so I checked out their install process, see HCLinePhone - openSUSE Wiki , and it seemed straight forward. I used

Code:

lsblk

to determine that the device was mounted under /dev/sdd. I then executed

Code:

xzcat Fedora-Phosh-38-1.6.aarch64.raw.xz | sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdd iflag=fullblock oflag=direct status=progress; sync

and that led to the following result:

Code:

146800640 bytes (147 MB, 140 MiB) copied, 20 s, 7,2 MB/s
dd: error writing '/dev/sdd': Input/output error
36+0 records in
35+0 records out
146800640 bytes (147 MB, 140 MiB) copied, 22,0027 s, 6,7 MB/s

I guess I should have specified sdd1 (pmOS_boot) or sdd2 (pmOS_root). Now the phone does not start anymore and I guess I have to come up with a solution how to reinstall an OS to it. Although, during starting process, I get past the first stage (red LED, short vibration) to the second stage (yellow LED, two short vibrations) but not to the third (green LED, long vibration). The screen stays black and LED stays yellow. I should also add that Towboot still seems to work, as holding the Volume-Up-Button pressed during boot turns the LED blue in the second stage.

Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks and greetings
Pasi