PinePhone Pro/Create a multi-distribution image using rk2aw

Flash Rk2Aw BootLoader to SPI & Multidistro SDcard

References: https://xff.cz/kernels/rk2aw/rk2aw-rk3399-pinephone-pro/INSTALL and https://xnux.eu/rk2aw/. Thanks Megi at https://xnux.eu/log/

Requirements: SSH connection from linux machine to PinePhonePro, internet connection.

Preloader and userspace utility to flash it are non-free.

Download and Run Rk2Aw SPI Flasher

1. Connect PinePhonePro to linux machine and start a ssh connection
2. ssh <user>@<phoneip> # set a connection
3. cd ~/Downloads # enter to directory
4. curl -O https://xff.cz/kernels/bootloaders/ppp.tar.gz # download installer
5. tar -xvzf ppp.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads # extract
6. # scp -r ~/Downloads/ppp <user>@<phoneip>:~/Downloads # copy to phone, non needed
7. sudo ./spinor-flash-initial-setup.sh # flash SPI

Flash MultiDistro SD Card

1. Get distro compressend images and decompress them. (i.e. Manjaro.phosh.beta34, Mobian.6.1, ArchLinux.barebone)
2. Mount distro images both partition "/boot", "/root" for each distro
3. lsblk # find /loop, /sd references. Use blkid to see the UUID for the partition
   • ├─loop0p1 /media/xxx/BOOT_MNJRO
   • └─loop0p2 /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO
   • ├─loop1p1
   • └─loop1p2 /media/xxx/rootfs
   • ├─loop2p1
   • └─loop2p2 /media/xxx/a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2
   • └─sdb disk
4. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M status=progress # erase sd card
5. Partition sd card (min 32GB)

sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb <<EOF
label: gpt
first-lba: 64
table-length: 8
start=64, size=32704, type=D7B1F817-AA75-2F4F-830D-84818A145370, name="loader", attrs=RequiredPartition
size=8G, name="ManJaro", attrs="RequiredPartition,LegacyBIOSBootable"
size=8G, name="MObian", attrs="RequiredPartition,LegacyBIOSBootable"
size=+, name="ALarm", attrs="RequiredPartition,LegacyBIOSBootable"
EOF

1. lsblk # list partitions on sd and mounted distro images
   1. • Device Start End Sectors Size Type
      • /dev/sdb1 64 32767 32704 16M unknown
      • /dev/sdb2 32768 18907135 18874368 9G Linux filesystem
      • /dev/sdb3 18907136 37781503 18874368 9G Linux filesystem
      • /dev/sdb4 37781504 60524543 22743040 10.8G Linux filesystem
2. Copy files for ManJaro
   1. sudo dd if=/dev/loop0p2 of=/dev/sdb2 bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync # copy rootfs to sd part2
   2. sudo scp -r /media/xxx/BOOT_MNJRO/* /media/gio/ROOT_MNJRO/boot # copy bootfs to to part2/boot
   3. sudo nano /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO/etc/fstab # edit address to UUID=a871300c-a20c-4601-80f5-c91585bf79ed
   4. mv /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO/boot/boot.scr /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO/boot/boot.scrORIG # hide auto-menu item
   5. sudo mkdir /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO/boot/extlinux # add directory
   6. sudo nano /media/xxx/ROOT_MNJRO/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf #add file

 #/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
 MENU TITLE Pinephone Pro Boot Menu
 LABEL l0
 MENU LABEL ManJaro
 FDT /boot/dtbs/rockchip/rk3399-pinephone-pro.dtb
 KERNEL /boot/Image
 INITRD /boot/initramfs-linux.img
 APPEND root=UUID=a871300c-a20c-4601-80f5-c91585bf79ed console=ttyS2,115200 console=tty0 loglevel=4 rw rootwait fbcon=rotate:0 pinephone_keyboard.disable_input

1. Copy files for MObian
   1. sudo dd if=/dev/loop1p2 of=/dev/sdb3 bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync # copy rootfs to sd part3
   2. sudo scp -r /media/xx/boot/* /media/xx/rootfs/boot # copy bootfs to to part3/boot
   3. sudo nano /media/xxx/rootfs/etc/fstab # edit address to UID=57d51edc-c461-4157-8d10-242b4082fc75
   4. sudo nano /media/xxx/rootfs/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf # edit path from /bootfs to /part3/boot

 >linux /boot/vmlinuz-6.1-rockchip
 >initrd /boot/initrd.img-6.1-rockchip
 >fdtdir /boot/dtb-6.1-rockchip/

1. Copy files for Arch Linux ARM
   1. sudo dd if=/dev/loop2p2 of=/dev/sdb4 bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync # copy rootfs to sd part4
   2. sudo scp -r /media/xxx/52CA-6165/* /media/xxx/a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2/boot # copy bootfs to to part4/boot
   3. sudo mkdir /media/xxx/a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2/boot/extlinux # add directory
   4. sudo nano /media/gio/rootfs/etc/fstab # edit address to UUID=a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2
   5. sudo nano /media/xxx/a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf # add file

 #/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
 MENU TITLE Pinephone Pro Boot Menu
 LABEL l0
 MENU LABEL ALarm
 FDT /boot/dtbs/rockchip/rk3399-pinephone-pro.dtb
 KERNEL /boot/Image
 INITRD /boot/initramfs-linux.img
 APPEND root=UUID=a18332a4-527d-418e-8bab-cdfa772d0ef2 console=ttyS2,115200 console=tty0 loglevel=4 rw rootwait fbcon=rotate:0 pinephone_keyboard.disable_input