Architectures/ARM/F19/Alpha RC5

Fedora 19 ARM Alpha RC5

This is the latest Fedora 19 Alpha Release Candidate for the ARM architecture and marks a significant milestone for Fedora on ARM. There is a single image for use with various platforms including - vexpress, exynos 5 (Chromebook) and Trimslice.

Download the Image and Copy to Media

You can download the image from:

wget http://armpkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/stage/19-Alpha-RC5/Images/armhfp/Fedora-19-Alpha-armhfp-minimal.raw.xz

Copy the image to your SD card for use:

xzcat Fedora-19-Alpha-armhfp-minimal.raw.xz > /dev/<location-of-media>

Prepare for booting

The image includes the following kernel variants - kernel (multiplatform), kernel-lpae (exynos 5) and kernel-tegra(Trimslice). In order to boot one of these kernels, first determine which is appropriate for your device.

For Trimslice(kernel-tegra)

IMPORTANT
You must use a Device Tree enabled Uboot to boot the Fedora 19 Trimslice image. Failure to do so will result in a non-booting system.

Insert the newly created SD card and navigate to the "_boot" parition. Create a boot.cmd.mmc using the below command:

echo "setenv bootargs cma=64M root=LABEL=_/ ro rhgb console=ttyS0,115200
ext2load mmc 0:1 5880000 vmlinuz-3.9.0-301.fc19.armv7hl.tegra
ext2load mmc 0:1 4080000 uInitrd-3.9.0-301.fc19.armv7hl.tegra
ext2load mmc 0:1 4000000 dtb-3.9.0-301.fc19.armv7hl.tegra/tegra20-trimslice.dtb
bootz 5880000 4080000 4000000" > boot.cmd.mmc

Now create the boot script (boot.scr) the system will read to boot the machine:

mkimage -A arm -O linux -a 0 -e 0 -T script -C none -n "Fedora Boot Script" -d boot.cmd.mmc boot.scr

Insert into the Trimslice and boot. There is no root password required initially - this something you should change right away.

Once the system is booted there is a little clean up required. First remove the unneeded kernels:

yum remove kernel kernel-lape

Next install the 'arm-boot-config' utility. ABC will allow users to choose the kernel they would like to boot in Uboot and requires 'patch' to run automatically after kernel install/removal.

yum install patch
wget http://people.fedoraproject.org/~blc/fedora-arm/arm-boot-config/arm-boot-config-0.37.tar.bz2
tar xvjf arm-boot-config-0.37.tar.bz2
cd arm-boot-config-0.37
./install.sh
touch /.abc-boot.root; a-b-c