Booting FydeOS on the NVMe

#1

Greetings all,

Has anyone succeeded in booting FydeOS with an NVMe? I have yet to figure this out. I was told that it would support UEFI with version 19.0 but that is not the case at least not with the EDK2 version…

(Hell, I could not even get it to run from the NVMe on my Raspberry PI 5.)

I downloaded the Generic ARMBIAN UEFI version as I had installed EDK2 and it booted into a GRUB menu. I had FydeOS imaged to a USB thumb drive and it showed in the GRUB menu for fun I selected the USB drive and it said that the kernel was not compiled to use the boot loader or something to that nature.

(If anyone is wondering?) Yes, I asked about this on FydeOS discord. They told me version 19.0 should work with UEFI or just install GRUB for version 18.

I have no idea how to get GRUB to work with the ROCK 5b.

Thank you,

Del Mar

#2

Try this Firmware from this link.

Just use RPI Imagery to burn the image onto NVMe if Balena Etcher is not recognizing it. I could succeed in installing it and booting from NVMe. FYI i have 5b+

#3

Hey Manu,

Thanks for the reply. I wonder if the rock 5b+ has better support. I tried what you shared, It booted from an SDcard but not the NVMe.

I tried with boot images “rock-5b_UEFI_Release_v0.12.2.img” and “rock-5b-spi-image-gd1cf491-20240523.img”.
I used this loader rk3588_spl_loader_v1.15.113.bin

Is there a specific boot loader that I may need? I know the rock 5b and 5b+ have some small differences.

Thanks,

Del Mar

#4

No , you don’t need any other special loader. I used the latest firmware with this loader 1.15.113. Radxa board are very tricky. I couldn’t also get it to boot in the first attempt.
Keep trying if you want to use it at any cost to succeed. That’s what I did and it booted on 3rd attempt. Just sharing my experience, may not be the same in your case.
As for as the hardware is concerned between 5b & 5b+ there is no much difference and the firmware are compatible with each other according to one of the Radxa-Team developer. Good luck :+1:.