Has anyone tried Ubuntu 22.04 server yet?

[98cwitr]

I can't get my Quartz64 to boot, but interested if anyone has even attempted ubuntu server yet.

[CounterPillow]

The kernel in stock Ubuntu 22.04 (Linux 5.15) would be too old, but you can totally run an Ubuntu rootfs with your own kernel and your own bootloader.

Build u-boot or grab it from pgwipeout's CI (triple dots to the right, click merge-job archive, download, write the idbloader and uboot from the mainline u-boot subdirectory to the right offsets).

Create a /boot partition, and either put your own kernel + initramfs or pgwipeout's kernel + initramfs on it.

Then on the / partition of your target medium that you've also created, write an Ubuntu root file system that you've downloaded (ubuntu-base-22.04-base-arm64.tar.gz).

Make a /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf that loads the kernel you placed onto the /boot and points at the root file system.

The downside of this all is that you'll have to manually deal with the kernel, as it's not packaged.

In the future with a newer Ubuntu release, if their kernel is configured with the right options for rockchip, we could look into booting a generic UEFI image by having either EDKII or u-boot's scrappy implementation load Ubuntu's bootloader.

Another option is that we set up a CI that modifies their generic server arm64 image to use our u-boot with a newer kernel package built and preinstalled.

[Peter Gamma]

We are also interested in this, although it sounds complicated. Many say the PinePhone is a little Linux Computer. But when we start to test LibreOffice for instance, this applications works better with keyboard and mouse. When  LibreOffice is installed on a Linux PC, it normally simply works.


But when installed on the PinePhone, it feels like we are debugging the version 1.0 of an Android Custom Rom with LibreOffice, and we are asking the question, does it not run better on Ubuntu Server?