Re: Building installation image for ROCK64

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

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On 2020-04-26, Simon South wrote:
> From there, log in to the ROCK64 as the superuser. Using fdisk, prepare
> a microSD card (/dev/mmcblk0) with a GPT partition table and a single
> partition beginning at sector 2,048.

With your current layout, parts of the bootloader may be written to the
same offsets as files in your first partition... you may have gotten
lucky for now, but it's only a matter of time till something breaks your
bootloader!

You really want to have the loader1 (start sector 64, 2.5MB size) and
loader2 (start sector 16384, 4MB size) partitions listed in:

  http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Partitions

gptfdisk/gdisk should be able to write such a partition table (at least
the loader2 partition, some tools refuse to create the loader1 partition
starting at sector 64).


Glad you made good progress! It would be nice to eventually be able to
create installer images for aarch64/armhf... there's been a lot of
progress on being able to create cross-compiled installation images, so
the day may not be so far off!


live well,
  vagrant

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