RE: Leap on a Turing RK1

Hi Felix, Thanks for your report and detailed steps.

-----Original Message----- From: Felix Niederwanger Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2024 8:38 PM To: arm@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Leap on a Turing RK1

Hey people,

I finally managed to get Leap 15.6 installed on the eMMC of a Turing RK1.

TLDR: Flash the official Firmware image to the eMMC, delete all partitions but the first one (bootloader) and then boot from USB Stick.

My solution was to use the provided bootloader from the official image, and then install the main OS alongside it on the eMMC. This works flawlessly.

My main confusion point was to recognize, that the bootloader needs to be on the eMMC. This is actually documented in [1]. Without it, there is no output or anything when booting, it simply won't do anything.

I installed my RK1 within my Turing Pi cluster. I used Node 4, so I could just plug in a USB Stick with Leap 15.6 into the USB3 ports and boot from there. The boot order of the firmware bootloader is NVMe > SATA > USB > eMMC [1]. The typical YaST installation works without any issues.

Here's how the partitions of the installed system look like:

vela-rk:~ # parted /dev/mmcblk0 GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/mmcblk0 Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: MMC BJTD4R (sd/mmc) Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 31.3GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 16.8MB 554MB 537MB fat32 primary 2 554MB 688MB 134MB fat16 boot, esp 3 688MB 31.3GB 30.6GB btrfs

Have a lot of fun :-)

[1] https://docs.turingpi.com/docs/turing-rk1-flashing-os

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