Installing r2kaw and Tow-Boot to the SPI
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(12-17-2024, 04:59 PM)ethical_haquer Wrote: I tried using it with U-Boot, but U-Boot couldn't find the pmOS installation I have on the eMMC.
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rk2aw includes its own flavour of uboot (as does Tow-Boot): I had problems with pmOS and rk2aw as pmOS wasn't happy to have its boot directory in the same partition as /. So if I did a "default" pmOS where /boot had its own partition, and didn't bother with extlinux stuff, rk2aw happily picked up the EFI hooks and it loaded fine. However it kept randomly rebooting so I went with arch.

(12-17-2024, 04:59 PM)ethical_haquer Wrote: ...
I'm just surprised that no one has tried using Tow-Boot with rk2aw before. It should be possible, seeing as Tow-Boot is based off U-Boot.
I am perplexed as to why you would want to? Both Tow-Boot & rk2aw are "facilitators" between the board startup firmware and (their own flavour of) uboot. As such they flash LEDs, make disks available over USB and give some options which is your OS of choice for the day. I prefer rk2aw as it (better) supports multiple OSs on each disk.
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  • PinePhone pmOS Community Edition 2/16Gb driving my picture frame, Tow-boot with pmOS/SXMO on eMMC
  • PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition, Tow-boot on SPI, Arch/SXMO on eMMC
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RE: Installing r2kaw and Tow-Boot to the SPI - by dukla2000 - 12-18-2024, 05:13 AM

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