Install manjaro cli to emmc on orangepi4lts?

[bkmartin]

Ok, I tried some more experimentation and got a working Manjaro booting from emmc. I replaced the bootloader on the emmc with the bootloader from Armbian and now there are no partition errors and it boots fine. I ran manjaro-arm-installer, and then ran the following to write the arbmian bootloader to the mmc

#!/bin/sh
dd if=./idbloader.bin of=$1 seek=64 conv=notrunc status=none
dd if=./uboot.img of=$1 seek=16384 conv=notrunc status=none
dd if=./trust.bin of=$1 seek=24576 conv=notrunc status=none

using the files from the orange pi 4 lts image for Armbian

/usr/lib/linux-u-boot-current-orangepi4-lts_22.11.1_arm64

So the problem seems to be the Manjaro u-boot will not work with the orange pi 4 lts emmc

There is a big difference in size between the Armbian bootloader files and Manjaro

Armbian

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  217372 Jan 30 11:29 idbloader.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4194304 Jan 30 11:29 trust.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4194304 Jan 30 11:29 uboot.img

Manjaro

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  159950 Jun 11  2022 /boot/idbloader.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1031768 Jun 11  2022 /boot/u-boot.itb

[Strit]

The Armbian ones look to be BSP based, where Manjaros are mainline.

[bkmartin]

Any next step where I could help the team with getting the Manjaro bootloader working?

[spikerguy]

I will test it tomorrow.

I think i will move opi4lts to use mbr instead of gpt if thats the issue.

I have had tested images on emmc on opi4lts. I will do it again.

[bkmartin]

I already tried using MBR with the manjaro boot loader and it did not make a difference. When trying that scenario, instead of getting GPT partition errors, I got unknown partition errors. I also tried a partition layout with a single linux partition instead of a boot fat partition and linux ext4 partition with both MBR and GPT, both also failed. Anxiously awaiting to see if it works for you

[Strit]

Maybe it’s just the version of mainline uboot.

We’ve had several issues with newer uboots recently.

Maybe we should try an older version, @spikerguy ?

[bkmartin]

If you give me some pointers to download and extract old packages of the u-boot, I can try older versions next week