Mobian Boot Problem

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Hi flanders51,

I did not fresh install mobian on PineTab2 recently, however, I regularly update already installed mobian. The first time I succeed, I did the following:

1. Download the latest mobian image (not installer) from https://images.mobian.org/pinetab2/weekly/.
2. Download u-boot from https://gitlab.com/julianfairfax/u-boot-...s/download.
3. Flash the downloaded mobian image to microSD card of at least 8 GB. I use Balena Etcher for this.
4. Mount microSD card, it has 2 partitions: boot and rootfs, both with Ext4 filesystem. Copy u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin from u-boot archive file to boot partition:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4025731 Jul 14 15:35 System.map-6.3-rockchip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  220243 Jul 14 15:35 config-6.3-rockchip
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    1024 Sep  3 03:57 dtb-6.3-rockchip
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    1024 Sep  3 04:02 extlinux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17242346 Sep  3 04:00 initrd.img-6.3-rockchip
drwx------ 2 root root    12288 Sep  3 03:56 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1485824 Jul 14 13:20 u-boot-rockchip-spi.bin # This file is manually copied
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  9793886 Jul 14 15:35 vmlinuz-6.3-rockchip

5. Power off PineTab2, insert microSD card in it and power on. Mobian should be able to boot. Default user is mobian, default password is 1234.

Attention: At the very first boot, the filesystem resizes to actual microSD card size, so it is a bit longer.