Fedora on Rock 5B

#1

Hi there,
I’ve tried to install Fedora on my Rock 5 without success.

Booting with https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588/releases/download/v0.7.1/rock-5b_UEFI_Release_v0.7.1.img on SD-Card and source from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/aarch64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-aarch64-Rawhide-20230730.n.0.iso.

Board boots up fine but later starting in loop with
350.456154] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: ############# Anaconda installer errors end ###############
[ 352.156835] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:
[ 352.161387] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2froot.sh: “[ -e “/dev/root” ]”
[ 352.164564] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/wait_for_disks.sh: “[ “$main_loop” -ge “10” ]”
[ 352.167716] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/wait_for_settle.sh: “[ -f /tmp/settle.done ]”
[ 352.171999] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: starting timeout scripts
[ 352.172610] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: ############# Anaconda installer errors begin #############
[ 352.172852] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: # #
[ 352.173097] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: It seems that the boot has failed. Possible causes include
[ 352.173296] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: missing inst.stage2 or inst.repo boot parameters on the
[ 352.173537] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: kernel cmdline. Please verify that you have specified
[ 352.173731] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: inst.stage2 or inst.repo.
[ 352.173918] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: Please also note that the ‘inst.’ prefix is now mandatory.
[ 352.174156] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: # #
[ 352.174354] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: #### Installer errors encountered during boot: ####
[ 352.174543] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: # #
[ 352.174775] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: Reason unknown
[ 352.174970] dracut-initqueue[1065]: Warning: # #

Has anybody more succcess ?

Greetings
Andreas

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#2

No mainline no fun I guess…

#3

I’m really interested in this working. Any chance you could look at the arm-image-installer chipsets and boards and come up with a template for us? I believe it requires a file in soc.d and another one in files.d. But this is just the initial work. Also, relooking at your post it seems you’ve already past this point.

Here’s upstream
https://pagure.io/arm-image-installer

I played with this a LONG time ago with the Pine64 RockPro64 board, so I’m not much help beyond this.

#4

Ran across this in the arm64 image and it seems that your error message is looking for a kernel argument for inst.stage2pointing to a disk labeled Fedora-E-dvd-aarch64-rawh`.

http://EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg

Also, this reddit covers some of the next issues you might run across.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/zg4lde/rock_pi_5_model_b_fedora/

Lastly, here are the instructions for using the arm-image-installer
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/raspberry-pi/

The RockChip team does not seem to be very good at moving their chipsets and drivers to the linux kernel mainline, meaning things get very hacky very quickly.

Last link: https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-arm/msg14489.html

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