alarm on PinebookPro ? working image ?

[as365n4]

Hi all,

I am trying to get alarm working on my PinebookPro and tried to build an image based of the instructions on Nadia Holmquist's GitHub. https://github.com/nadiaholmquist/archiso-pbp

And whilst her prebuild images work when flashed to an SD-Card and inserted into a PinebookPro, I was unable to build an image and flash it to an SD-Card or eMMC-Module.

Has anybody any experience with her build ?
To build my "final" image I used a Rock64 running alarm, so no Qemu and VM required.

I also tried to follow the guide created by Rudis Muiznieks https://rudism.com/installing-arch-linux-on-the-pinebook-pro/ but it is very confusing at least when one is trying to figure out what step needs to be done when.
And I also tried to follow the guide created by User hku2 on the Pine64 Forum https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8865&pid=67593#pid67593 but no luck either as I kind of missing some steps maybe.

Hence me focusing on the pre-build images published by Nadia Holmquist, but they seem only to be used to build the "final" image for flashing onto the PinebookPro as everything is read-only on her pre-builds.

Is there any support in the pipeline for an official Arch Linux Arm image similar to the Rock64 ?

[as365n4]

I found an easy workaround...

First, I created an Manjaro minimal image for the PinebookPro with the manjaro-arm-tools https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/applications/manjaro-arm-tools and flashed it to my eMMC-Module. On first boot it runs a script to setup user, passwords, locale etc and once finished it boots into the Command Line since nothing else was included in the image build.
Second, I removed that stupid Manjaro bootsplash from extlinux.conf and changed the "Label" to Arch Linux ARM as well. Then I added "alarm", "aur" and Nadia Holmquist's "pinebookpro" repos to pacman.conf and replaced the Manjaro mirrorlist with the alarm mirrorlist and created the missing hooks folder in /etc/pacman.d.
Third, One needs to reinitiate the keyring and signing keys, then /etc/lsb-release needs to be removed as it gets replaced later with a version from the alarm repos. Now all repos need to be synced and the Manjaro PinebookPro Linux Kernel needs to be replaced with the Kernel from Nadia Holmquist's repo as the standard mainline Kernel does not work on the PinebookPro at present. And last just a simple pacman -Syuu followed by a reboot and viola we have alarm up and running on the PinebookPro.

[squidd]

lol that's cheating

[as365n4]

I know... but as I do not have the in-depth knowledge of Arch Linux yet, it was an easy workaround.

If any of you has a better idea or guide on how to setup Arch Linux on the PinebookPro I and probably others too would be more than grateful to use your guide and/or tips in setting these machines up.