UPDATED (June 2021): 17-distro multi-boot image for Pinephone (incl. 3GiB variant)

[calinb]

I selected the first distro, Arch, and end up at a screen with:

Arch Linux 5.10.0-rc5...

alarm login:

I assume the login may be root/1111, but I am unable to get a keyboard.  Anyone have a suggestion?

Edit1: Hm.  Now I've booted the second distro, also Arch, and while I only needed the 1111 passcode to get in, I can't get through the initialization, because I can't get a keyboard, which I need to put in the wifi password.

Edit2: These have to be distribution specific issues, because Mobian is giving me a keyboard, though it's not recognizing ethernet through the convergence dock when the dock is powered.  I gather Mobian and Arch are supposed to be the two best working distros on this phone, so I want to see if I can get them both going.

Arch produced the same results for me (terminal logon) in the last two multiboot releases. I can plug a USB keyboard into my dock and logon to the terminal and try some things but startx doesn't work. Maybe wayland needs to be started. Here are a couple of links but I ran out of time for the effort for now.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3121...mmand-line
https://linoxide.com/linux-how-to/run-wa...rch-linux/

Probably should search the Arch wiki too.

I've tried a couple of Arch (single boot images) and they both worked and booted to the desktop, as has arch-dreemurrs from the multi-boot selection screen. Mobian still works the best for me though and I've tried just about everything.

I haven't checked Ethernet on the dock with Mobian lately, but it used to work. I never got my MX-Linux Samba server working reliably though--even to another MX-Linux system Samba client. Ping always worked to and from the PinePhone though, for whatever that's worth. Many years ago I used Samba heavily but I read in various forums that it's become a PITA to get working these days! I gave up for now. mtp is all I need and it works well on the PinePhone.