Tow-boot broken on odroid n2 plus, how else to boot?

[Razathorn]

I’ve pretty much been unable to run Manjaro on my odroid n2+ for going on a year now because tow-boot simply doesn’t function on my n2+ 4g model–the spi installer simply locks up. I’ve reported a bug to them and others have noted they have the same issue. Manjaro removed the n2+ specific image and says to use tow-boot. What other way can I use to boot the generic image?

Bug in question: Odroid N2+ spi installer menu doesn't respond / locks up · Issue #227 · Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot · GitHub

[nl.smart]

HI, nice to see you, thanks for your bug report,

Unfortunately the Odroid n2 and m1 images don’t boot after a fresh built image, no dev gave answer about it.

[ARM Stable Update] 2023-11-15 - Kernels, OPI5-Plus, KODI, Plasma, Pipewire, Plasma, Gnome 45

@Kevin_Kofler “offers” his help to maintain plasma mobile on Manjaro, congratulation. On my side I encounter issue with the images I built for 2 arm devices, the Odroid n2 and m1. How can I help the dev team to solve it ?

[spikerguy]

@nl.smart

Unfortunately the Odroid n2 and m1 images don’t boot after a fresh built image, no dev gave answer about it.

Wait nobody pinged me. I was away from forum so I didn’t see it.

I might just activate device specific build for odroid devices again as there is issues with tow-boot.

Thanks

[Razathorn]

Any advice on this front. I am so tired of running old ubuntu on this device.

[nl.smart]

Hi,

The last image I built for the odroid n2 (Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-on2-2024.01.04.img.xz) is working well, did you try to build image for the odroid n2 plus ?

[Razathorn]

I’m sorry, and perhaps this is pure ignorance, but unless it’s on the download page, I’m not sure how to get an image like this. I definitely have some experience as a software engineer building things, but I’m not sure where to start building a manjaro image such as the one you described. If there’s a guide somewhere, I’ll definitely follow and report back.

[nl.smart]

To build your own manjaro arm image find below the wiki

[Wiki] How to contribute to Manjaro ARM

[Wiki] Contributing to Manjaro-ARM Over the past few years of Manjaro-ARM’s existence, we have had several people offer to help or at least show interest to help. While we appreciate every offer, it seems one of the largest issues that comes about is a large disconnect between the people wanting to help and the procedures to actually get anything done. We have made it extremely simple to do basic functions for manjaro-arm to mitigate the whole “Dont know how to do” or the “Dont know what to do”.…

build images are save here :
/var/cache/manjaro-arm-tools/img/

to add or remove some packages from the edition you build edit the file
/usr/share/manjaro-arm-tools/profiles/arm-profiles/editions/

my command to build an image is looking so

sudo buildarmimg -d om1 -e kde-plasma -v 2024.02.29 -b stable n

in your case use this command for example

sudo buildarmimg -d on2-plus -e kde-plasma -v 2024.02.29 -b stable n

to my knowledge manjaro is the only arm distro to provide a user build image tool…
same possibility for the manjaro x86, when it works :-/

Error: file `/boot/amd-ucode.img` not found - #7 by nl.smart

no problem if you need help to build one for arm.