How to try another OS?

Operating system distributions
1

Hi all!

I’ve found some new images for RockPi4 with the latest kernel like DietPi, Manjaro, Armbian. What is the proper way to try it on my RockPi4? If I write the image to an SD card or an NVME disk, RockPi does not boot. eMMC is connected and contains the working Ubuntu 18.04 OS.

SecureMode = 0
SecureInit ret = 0, SecureMode = 0
GPT  signature is wrong
LoadTrust Addr:0x1800
LoadTrust Addr:0x1c00
LoadTrust Addr:0x2000
LoadTrust Addr:0x2400
LoadTrust Addr:0x2800
LoadTrust Addr:0x2c00
LoadTrust Addr:0x3000
LoadTrust Addr:0x3400
Addr:0x1800 No find trust.img!
LoadTrustBL error:-3
SecureMode = 0
SecureInit ret = 0, SecureMode = 0
2

If official Armbian does not boot and you follow the guide … open a topic here.

Edit: Disconnect eMMC before since it has higher boot priority and its u-boot is most likely not able to boot SD just like that.

3

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. The problem in my case is related to the SPI flash with UBoot. When I disabled it by connecting pins 23 & 25, I can load the latest DietPi and Armbian from an SD card.

4

Did you updated the latest u-boot for SPI flash?

https://dl.radxa.com/rockpi4/images/loader/spi/uboot-trust-spi-20190816_1128.img

It should support Armbian in NVMe booting, the previous u-boot doesn’t support mbr, which most third party images uses.

5

I’ve installed the latest uboot using the instruction from the following article:
https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/Linux_system_runs_on_M.2_NVME_SSD
Does “rockpi4b-rk-u-boot-latest” installs this IMG?

$ sudo apt-get install -y rockchip-fstab
$ sudo apt-get install -y rockchip-overlay
$ sudo apt-get install -y rockpi4-dtbo
$ sudo apt-get install -y linux-4.4-latest # Will update kernel
Update u-boot in uSD card or eMMC:
$ sudo apt-get install -y rockpi4b-rk-u-boot-latest