Hey matyas and ah-,
Thanks for all the efforts and for sharing your findings! Despite having almost no knowledge about fiddling with kernels and such, your success stories encouraged me to try to get Arch running on my RockPro64 as well, and it worked!
In case others want to try, here is what I did:
- download latest stretch-minimal image from ayufan's release page and extract it
- dd the extracted image file to my SD-card. This resulted in 2 partitions on the SD-card, 'boot' and 'linux-root'.
- download latest alarm image (http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxA...est.tar.gz) and extract it
- overwrite everything on the 'linux-root' partition except the boot/ directory with the contents of the extracted alarm image (except the boot/ directory in there, as well). I went wrong a couple of times here, mistaking the 'boot' partition for the boot/ directory, and overwriting the entire 'linux-root' partition anyway.
Again, thanks matyas for your description of 'dirty' installing Arch ARM this way
ah-, could you share where you got 4.18.0-rc8 from? I can't seem to find it neither in ayufan's linux-kernel repo, nor in his linux-mainline-kernel repo. Also, could you briefly describe how I would go about building it into a usable/install-able kernel if it's not too much to ask?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Thomas
Thanks for all the efforts and for sharing your findings! Despite having almost no knowledge about fiddling with kernels and such, your success stories encouraged me to try to get Arch running on my RockPro64 as well, and it worked!
In case others want to try, here is what I did:
- download latest stretch-minimal image from ayufan's release page and extract it
- dd the extracted image file to my SD-card. This resulted in 2 partitions on the SD-card, 'boot' and 'linux-root'.
- download latest alarm image (http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxA...est.tar.gz) and extract it
- overwrite everything on the 'linux-root' partition except the boot/ directory with the contents of the extracted alarm image (except the boot/ directory in there, as well). I went wrong a couple of times here, mistaking the 'boot' partition for the boot/ directory, and overwriting the entire 'linux-root' partition anyway.
Again, thanks matyas for your description of 'dirty' installing Arch ARM this way
Quote:Right now I'm running the ayufan 4.18.0-rc8, compiled via https://github.com/ah-/PKGBUILDs (https://github.com/ah-/PKGBUILDs/commit/...bb9839edd0), see core/linux-rockpro64 and just run makepkg in there.
ah-, could you share where you got 4.18.0-rc8 from? I can't seem to find it neither in ayufan's linux-kernel repo, nor in his linux-mainline-kernel repo. Also, could you briefly describe how I would go about building it into a usable/install-able kernel if it's not too much to ask?
Thanks!
Cheers,
Thomas
PinePhone (BH 2GB + CE 3GB) // RockPro64 4GB (rev. 2.1) - OMV NAS // PineH64 3GB (model B) - off-prem OMV NAS // Pine64-LTS 2GB (rev. 1.2 + Playbox) - Domotics server
