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    What can I say, I didn't want to wait on my provider lol (lemmy.world)
    submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I’ve been killing myself in my free time to get a NanoPi R6S to boot from an SD card; wish I had this expertise.

    Edit: I didn’t say this very clearly, I’ve been killing myself to build and compile U-Boot, the Linux kernel then building an image to write to an SD card that’ll actually boot.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Heh, this expertise is built on hundreds of "Why tf won't X boot from Y!!" and solid research skills lol you'll get there

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    Oops, I realize now that my comment made it seem like I can’t figure out how to write an image to external media and boot it properly. It was actually more intense than that, so I’ve updated it.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Not sure about your hardware, but try to look up if it requires a special kernel, like the RPi 5 (which only runs on raspbian because they ship that kernel)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

    The manufacturer ships several tools but a lot of the necessary files are shared from Google Drive, and each time I try to download one it says “download limit exceeded.” My goal is to build something more vanilla — I can see that the hardware is supported in the mainline kernel so I’m doing this with tons of trial and error (which I don’t mind).

    I’m doing everything in a Dockerfile so once I’m there the goal is to clean it up and push it to GitHub.