I am so exciting when I see the post of Archlinux on Firefly-rk3288 from tlgimenes, It is cool!!
I search in internet about Archlinux and I found that Archlinux arm can run smooly in raspberrypi. So It may work well in Firefly-rk3288. I try to do it, and share my note here. I should say thanks to tlgimenes here, because his post help me a lot.
there is my note
1.flash the official firmware of ubuntu to the board
2.download the miniroot from here and flash linux-boot-miniroot.img to boot partition.
3.reboot the board and enter the miniroot mode
miniroot#
4.in official firmware, /dev/mmcblk0p5 is file system of ubuntu, so make it to ext4 and mount to /mnt
[root@Arch firefly]# cp -r /path/system/ /
.connect to ethernet and download the archlinux package, you can download it from their official web too.
miniroot# mount /dev/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/
miniroot# mkdir /media
miniroot# mount /dev/sda /media/
miniroot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/linuxroot.img bs=1M count=1024
miniroot# mkfs.ext4 -F -L linuxroot /media/linuxroot.img
miniroot# mkdir tmp
miniroot# mount -o loop /media/linuxroot.img /tmp/
miniroot# cp -a /mnt/* /tmp/
miniroot# umount /tmp/
miniroot# umount /media/
miniroot# umount /mnt/
.uncompress
miniroot# cd /mnt/
miniroot# tar -xzf ArchLinuxARM-veyron-latest.tar.gz
7.change root to archlinux and add a user
miniroot# chroot /mnt/
[root@miniroot /]# useradd -m -s /bin/bash firefly
[root@miniroot /]# passwd firefly
8.change the hostname
[root@miniroot /]# vi /etc/hostname
9.change the service of serial
[root@miniroot /]# cp /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty\@.service /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS2.service
[root@miniroot /]vi /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyS2.service （change the "%i.device" to "%i"）
[root@miniroot /]# systemctl enable [email]serial-getty@ttyS2.service[/email]
note: the newest code change the ttyS2 to ttyFIQ0, so I change it to ttyFIQ0 in my firmware.
10.You can start archlinux now
[root@miniroot /]# exit
miniroot# boot /mnt: /lib/systemd/systemd
11.You can login using the user you just add, and I use firefly
Arch login: firefly
Password
12.Enter root mode, and the root password of archlinux is “root”
[firefly@Arch ~]$ su
Password:
[root@Arch firefly]#
13.Start network service
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl start dhcpcd.service
14.Update the system
[root@Arch firefly]# pacman –Syu
Note: you should input “N” here, or you will clear all what you do just now
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
A new kernel version needs to be flashed onto /dev/mmcblk0p5.
Do you want to do this now? [y|N]
N
15.Install sudo
[root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S sudo
edit the profile, and add the user permission
[root@Arch firefly]# visudo
firefly ALL=(ALL) ALL
16.add wifi
tlgimenes run the wifi by using libhybris, here is a simple way. I copy the file /system/ from official firmware of ubuntu to archlinux.
[root@Arch firefly]# cp -r /path/system/ /
copy the script to archlinux
[root@Arch firefly]# cp wifi-on.sh /usr/local/bin/
[root@Arch firefly]# cp wifi-off.sh /usr/local/bin/
edit the service file of systemd
[root@Arch firefly]# vi /lib/systemd/system/wifi-on.service
start the wifi service when system start
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable wifi-on.service
17.add bluetooth
install bluez
[root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S bluez
[root@Arch firefly]# pacman -S bluez-utils
add profile (you can get the file from my firmware, here I put my files in u-disk, and mount in /media/)
[root@Arch firefly]# cp /media/bluetooth-brcm /etc/default/bluetooth-brcm
add the bluetooth script
[root@Arch firefly]# cp /media/do-brcm-patchram-plus.sh /usr/local/bin/
start the bluetooth service
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable bluetooth-brcm-firmware.service
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable bluetooth.service
18.you should resize the partition of file system, when your system start first, I run a script service when system start here
[root@Arch firefly]# touch /firstboot
[root@Arch firefly]# vi /usr/local/bin/first-boot.sh
[root@Arch firefly]# chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/first-boot.sh
[root@Arch firefly]# vi /lib/systemd/system/rc.local.service （you can get the file from my firmware）
enable the service
[root@Arch firefly]# systemctl enable rc.local.service
19.You can remove some file useless, such as the software package what you installed:
[root@Arch firefly]# rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*
20.pack the firmware
I reboot the board and enter miniroot (I insert the u-disk and mount to /media/ here):
miniroot# mount /dev/mmcblk0p5 /mnt/
miniroot# mkdir /media
miniroot# mount /dev/sda /media/
miniroot# dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/linuxroot.img bs=1M count=1024
miniroot# mkfs.ext4 -F -L linuxroot /media/linuxroot.img
miniroot# mkdir tmp
miniroot# mount -o loop /media/linuxroot.img /tmp/
miniroot# cp -a /mnt/* /tmp/
miniroot# umount /tmp/
miniroot# umount /media/
miniroot# umount /mnt/
Now, the linuxroot.img is the file system of archlinux.
21.pack to a update.img
I change the AndroidTool, and you can copy the files include linuxroot.img，linux-boot.img，resource.img，misc_zero.img to the direction rockdev/Image/ then run the script mkupdate.bat, the update.img will create in rockdev/
22. if you want auto enter your archlinux and don not want enter miniroot, you can change these:
miniroot# editenv
root=/dev/mmcblk0p5:
init=/sbin/init
#ethaddr=00:11:22:33:44:55
#fbset_args="-a -nonstd 1 -g 1920 1080 1920 1080 32 -rgba 8/0,8/8,8/16,8/24"
#fbset_args="-a -nonstd 4 -g 1280 720 1280 720 16 -rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0"
autoboot=1
miniroot# saveenv
miniroot# reboot –f
I just transplanted a basic archlinux file system, if you want to make a perfect system, you also need to install a lot of software, I hope you can share it with everyone, just like tlgimenes, thank you very much.
If you find the wrong place, please tell me.
google driver:archlinux firmware: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5q__Od5lv3FZjFjcWxDWUVVcTg/view?usp=sharing
baidu disk:
archlinux firmware link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bomaoVH password: mpfk
archlinux+xfce firmware link: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1numvXrV password: g82u
I just can’t duplicate it here at home because I don’t have a serial debugging cable, but if you do, I think this is a better solution than my previous one. By the ways, did you manage to make miniroot boot not only using the debug serial port but using the VGA port instead ?