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ARM – Vim3-Pro – with EFI and Fedora 33..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on January 5, 2021 by RGJanuary 5, 2021

Recently acquired one of the Khadas VIM3-Pro arm64 SoCs, and was impressed with the level of documentation available.. Unfortunately – as is so often the case – this was all relentlessly Ubuntu-focussed, with a semi-proprietary kernel based on the 4.X kernel tree.. At least the U-Boot version was fairly recent, and appeared to support EFI etc.. The … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, arm, ARM64, Fedora, Hacks, hardware, kernel, Linux / ARM, U-Boot, UEFI | Tagged arm64, efi, fedora 33, khadas, success, u-boot, vim3-pro | 1 Reply

ARM64 – Odroid N2 – Latest U-Boot, Kernel 5.6-rc2, EFI, Fedora 31, Plasma/Wayland

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on February 17, 2020 by RGFebruary 17, 2020

I have recently acquired an Odroid N2 (4GB) and managed – with some difficulty – to get it to run a ‘modern’ U-Boot, Kernel 5.6-rc2, with EFI support, and Fedora 31. This time, there were no clues from OpenSuse, and all the examples I found still used the ancient/custom Hardkernel u-boot and a kernel.img ‘blob. Fortunately, the … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, ARM64, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux / ARM, Odroid N2, quirks, U-Boot, UEFI | Tagged arm64, efi, fedora 31, kernel 5.6-rc2, odroid n2, plasma/wayland, u-boot | 2 Replies

ARM – Original Hikey Updated and Fixed – with Gotchas..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on September 9, 2019 by RGSeptember 9, 2019

After successfully updating and re-configuring the Odroid C2 to use Fedora uefi/grub2 to boot, I decided to try to do the same to the even-older Hikey SOC. This already booted using fastboot with an older version of grub, with manual configuration, but I wanted to use the standard (Fedora) boot process. I had read that there was … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, arm, Fedora, fix, Hacks, Hikey, kernel, Linux, Opinion, UEFI | Tagged 6220, aarch64, arm64, boot, configuration, fedora, gotchas, grub, hikey, soc, uefi, workarounds | Leave a reply

Linux – Dual-Boot – Fixing the EFI FAT32 UUID..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 26, 2018 by RGMarch 26, 2018

Although I had successfully achieved a dual-boot uEFI Fedora27/Windows7 system, the expanded EFI partition issue was still unresolved..   I had successfully expanded the partition size, but the expansion of the FAT32 filesystem on it did not work, as gparted was unable to handle it.   After more research, I came to the conclusion that the only reliable solution … Continue reading →

Posted in dual-boot, Fedora, fix, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, UEFI | Tagged dual-boot, efi partition, fat32, linux, restore, uuid, windows7 | Leave a reply

Linux – Dual-Boot Nasty Hack..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 14, 2018 by RGMarch 14, 2018

I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora)..   I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, dual-boot, Fedora, fix, grub, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks, UEFI, Win 7 | Tagged dual-boot, fedora entry missing, fix, grub2, hack, linux, substitute, success, uefi, windows 7, z820 | Leave a reply

Linux – Dual-Boot Nasty Hack..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 14, 2018 by RGMarch 14, 2018

I am setting up an HP Z820 as – primarily – a video creating/editing/restoring system, but I need to be able to boot into Windows 7 Pro (for Vegas Pro, AviSynth, Prodrenalin, Mercalli, etc. etc..) and Linux (Fedora)..   I had set up dual-boot systems before, and I am still using Windows 7 Pro SP1, but this time … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, dual-boot, Fedora, fix, grub, Hacks, Linux, Opinion, quirks, UEFI, Win 7 | Tagged dual-boot, fedora entry missing, fix, grub2, hack, linux, substitute, success, uefi, windows 7, z820 | Leave a reply

ARM64 – Fedora 27, UEFI and Pi3..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on December 12, 2017 by RGDecember 12, 2017

I decided – after some time – to do some more with the Raspberry Pi 3, and set it up as a small network print server.. As there was now an ‘official’ version of Fedora 27 for the Pi3, I decided to use this..   Details are here, and links to aarch64 images are near the bottom of … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, compilation, Fedora, Hacks, kernel, Linux, Linux / ARM, Opinion, Raspberry Pi, UEFI | Tagged aarch64, custom config, fedora 27, kernel, kernel 4.14.5, linux, pi3, uart console, uefi | Leave a reply

Hardware – UEFI Bios for Linux ‘Chromebook’

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on August 11, 2017 by RGAugust 11, 2017

The original ‘SeaBios’ BIOS on my Acer c720p was a little clunky, so I decided to make the plunge and update it to a ‘proper’ Linux-friendly BIOS..    There is a known/good one available, but it is UEFI-only, so will involve changing the filesystem/partition layout on an existing system.. Disk /dev/sda: 119.2 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors … Continue reading →

Posted in boot, Chromebook, hardware, Intel, Linux, UEFI, X86_64 | Tagged c720p, chromebook, fedora, install, linux, new bios, reformat, success, uefi | Leave a reply

X86_64 – ‘Apollo Lake’ SOC System, with a Gotcha..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 30, 2017 by RGJuly 30, 2017

After more research, I decided to get one of the Intel ‘Apollo Lake’-based SOC systems, and the one I chose was from Kodlix..     It is functionally identical with another from Beelink, and in fact the Kodlix website shows images of the Beelink version of the device..    I just preferred the Kodlix version, as the case was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Apollo Lake, Fedora, Hacks, hardware, Intel, Linux, UEFI, X86_64 | Tagged ap42, apollo lake, beelink, fedora 26 installed, grub fails, intel soc, kodlix, linux, uefi, use refind, x86_64 | Leave a reply

ARM64 – HiKey – Change to UEFI Boot..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on July 22, 2015 by RGJuly 22, 2015

After some more testing, including trying (unsuccessfully) the HiKey version of Kernel 4.1-rc4 # git clone -b hikey-mainline-rebase –single-branch https://github.com/96boards/linux/   I was frustrated by the complete lack of kernel boot info on screen, after the proprietary bootloader had finished.. More research found that this bootloader was described as somewhat deficient in the ‘fit for purpose’ department, and … Continue reading →

Posted in aarch64, ARM64, compilation, Crash and Burn.., Hikey, Linux / ARM, UEFI | Tagged arm64, bootloader, emmc, grub, hikey, linux, success, uefi | Leave a reply
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