[Dev] ARM rootfs

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 16:47:47 +0100
Andreas Grapentin <andreas at grapentin.org> wrote:

> I think the current recommended method is to install archlinuxarm and
> follow the migration guide:
> 
> https://wiki.parabola.nu/Migration_from_Arch_ARM
> 
> (which is also slightly outdated)
> 
> I am currently in the process up updating everything in libre at least
> to the levels of x86_64 and i686, and following that, I will look into
> updating the migration and installation guides, and building a release
> tarball.


There is a way to do it which requires a parabola installation (for
instance for x86), which works for devices that have their bootloader
on microSD:
- Find the URL of the bootloader package for your device and download
  it.
- install archlinuxarm-keyring
- use pacman-key to verify the bootloader package
- extract the bootloader package and run the commands to copy it to the
  microSD using the command provided by the package install script.
- uncompress the tarball, the booloader should figure by itself how to
  boot Parabola.

Ideally the bootloaders could be shipped in a generic image tarball and
the install scripts made more easily accessible to have easier install
instruction.

Paul also might have been working on scripts to automate that.

Denis.
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