Need help with installing RockyLinux ARM64 on Rock-Pi 4C

#1

Hi,

Can anyone please provide me guidance on what it takes to install RockyLinux ARM64/aarch64 on RockPi4C ? RockyLinux provides only an .ISO file.

I installed UUByte ISO Editor on my Mac ( https://www.uubyte.com/iso-editor.html) and with it, I installed the Rocky Linux ISO on to my SD Card.

But my Rock Pi4C doesn’t boot up with that SD card as I was hoping to.

Doing some reading, I believe the SD Card has to be partitioned in a specific manner, with all the required bits presented in appropriate partitions.

https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/partitions

If so, where can one get these bits - first stage loader, U boot image, ATF ?

Appreciate if you someone can educate me if my understanding is correct and what I need to do to accomplish this.

thanks in advance.

#2

An Update:

To build the required images, I followed this documentation on the latest version of Ubuntu VM.

But the build fails :frowning:

root@ubuntu20-vm:~/rockchip-bsp# ./build/mk-uboot.sh rockpi4c
Building U-boot for rockpi4c board!
Using rock-pi-4c-rk3399_defconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
…
…
CC disk/part.o
CC disk/part_dos.o
CC disk/part_efi.o
disk/part_efi.c: In function ‘gpt_verify_partitions’:
disk/part_efi.c:858:49: error: taking address of packed member of ‘struct _gpt_entry’ may result in an unaligned pointer valu
e [-Werror=address-of-packed-member]
858 | gpt_convert_efi_name_to_char(efi_str, gpt_e[i].partition_name,
| ^~~~~~~
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:281: disk/part_efi.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1289: disk] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:461: __build_one_by_one] Error 2
MAKE UBOOT IMAGE FAILED.

#3

That arm64 iso image is not for sbc, it’s for WindowsArm notebooks, because it requires uefi.
I.e.
You can’t use it for normal sbc.

#4

Thanks Dante4 for your reply.

Tom Cubie from Radxa replied to a message that I left on their website (rockpi.org) He asked me to open an new issue/ticket on github with regards to build failure, which I did.

Just wanted to pass it on, incase anyone else is interested.

thank you.

#5

Update:

Here is the message from Radxa team.

Please use gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu. Check this guide, https://wiki.radxa.com/Rockpi4/dev/Debian.

I was able to build the u-boot successfully y following the above link.

U-boot IMAGE READY!
root@ubuntu20-vm:~/rockchip-bsp# ls -lt out/u-boot/
total 2504
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 20 13:46 spi
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1048576 May 20 13:46 trust.img
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1048576 May 20 13:46 uboot.img
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 297294 May 20 13:46 rk3399_loader_v1.20.119.bin
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 163836 May 20 13:46 idbloader.img