(09-19-2023, 03:00 PM)donchurch Wrote: Greetings,
IDK if this thread is dead but I'm a used to be slacker, now running Devuan, avoiding the evil systemd binary path.
Hi donchurch! It's great to see there are still other enthusiasts around willing to play about with this!
(09-19-2023, 03:00 PM)donchurch Wrote: I'm also a frustrated Pinephone owner that's looking for something better and stumbled across the activity here.
Yeah Mara's keeping the thread alive with updated images. I can give people hints about how to get a (semi) working Slarm64 system on the Pinephone as I still run it as my daily driver. Admittedly it does involve jumping through lots of hoops to use as a phone but I still keep doing it because I'm weird like that! It did take a lot of hours to build all the phone software I wanted and code changes too and the builds I did will be way out of date by now. It's not for the faint hearted.
I don't have a lot of time these days to muck about with these things but if people like you are motivated to stick with it then I can try and find a bit more time to share some knowledge.
(09-19-2023, 03:00 PM)donchurch Wrote: My latest stuggle is with PostmarketOS. I have it running from the microsd card since for some reason their installation image, after completing the install, on first boot would lock up with an error stating that the file system was read only so it couldn't write the user files if I'm not mistaken.
And so I wrote the latest Slarm64 image to the microsd and edited the files (I'm pretty sure according to Mara's readme) from my PC. I adjusted the mmcblk number to 0 since that's what PMOS labels the booted microsd. I also then tried to flag the partition as bootable using GParted from the PC. When starting the boot process the green led comes on for a few seconds then nothing.
I have the little docking station and external monitor plus may be able to rig a serial cable if I do a little research on the subject. I have time to test also so if you guys are game, I'm game to give it a go as a tinkerer.
Did you get any further information about what was going wrong with this? The external monitor and the serial output are well worth checking. Have a look at my early posts in this thread as I originally got Slarm64 to boot by swapping in kernels from other PinePhone distros. It could be an issue with the kernel or it could be something wrong in your boot configuration.
