Slarm64 on PinePhone [Unofficial Slackware ARM - 64 bit]

[donchurch]

While exploring other os's I noticed Maemo Leste has quite a bit of functionality as of late and it's based on Devuan which is possibly the only distribution besides Slack that is systemd free and it's my current desktop OS having left Slack because of the lack of mainstream app support.  In the install process (partial copy below) it has a step that seems may help with Slarm64.  I obviously don't know the in's and out's but if these steps are necessary then it seems they should be worked into the process.

eMMC Installation
Some notes have been adapted from the Pine64 Wiki.
Preparing the .img file for eMMC boot
Download the .img.xz version of the image and extract it:
$ unxz -k maemo-leste-*-arm64-pinephone-*.img.xz

The image, by default, points to

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0

for SD cards, which must be modified to point to

Code:

/dev/mmcblk2

for the eMMC. To start, mount the image to a loop device.
$ sudo losetup -P /dev/loop0 maemo-leste-*-arm64-pinephone-*.img

Mount the second partition to /mnt and the first partition to /mnt/boot and enter /mnt:
$ sudo mount /dev/loop0p2 /mnt
$ sudo mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/boot
$ cd /mnt

Use the editor of your choice to edit

Code:

/mnt/etc/fstab

, replacing

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0

with

Code:

/dev/mmcblk2

.
Now we need to edit

Code:

boot.scr

. For that you will need to download

Code:

boot.txt

from Maemo Leste github:
$ cd /mnt/boot
$ sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maemo-...r/boot.txt

Now we do the same step as we did for the fstab, replacing

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0

with

Code:

/dev/mmcblk2

in

Code:

boot.txt

.

To regenerate

Code:

boot.scr

you need to install

Code:

u-boot-tools

first to be able to use mkimage.
Regenerate

Code:

boot.scr

:
$ sudo mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -d boot.txt boot.scr