CentOS for Rock64

Summary

Flashes a MicroSD Card with a Centos RootFS and an Armbian UBoot&Kernel for a Rock64 board

Prerequisites

Running Linux distribution with MicroSD card inserted

Use an existing release

You can use any one of the releases attached to this project and directly flash them onto the MicroSD card using the nice Etcher GUI tool, or if you feel more adventures you can use the dd tool. Make sure you use the correct device name for the MicroSD card or you can loose all the data on the device.

dd bs=1MB if=<release.img> of=/dev/<device_name>

Create my own distribution from the Armbian and CentOS sources

First download and flash a Armbian from https://www.armbian.com/rockpro64. Boot your device from this card and using a USB adapter, plugin your blank MicroSD card. The device will show up as /dev/sda. Finally check out the rock64 branch of the project31/centos-pine64 github project.

The install.sh uses an Armbian release that was copied from

https://dl.armbian.com/rock64/nightly/

and a Centos 7 RootFS copied from

http://vault.centos.org/altarch/7.4.1708/isos/aarch64/

The Armbian distribution was decompressed before committing to git so that that the image can referenced. To create a bootable MicroSD card with CentOS 7 simply run:

bash install.sh

The whole process takes about 5 minutes or so.