Installation

Install Instructions:

Prerequisites:

Reccomended Hardware

• 1 SD card of any size, for storing the bootloader.
• 1 EMMC, NVME SSD, or USB storage device, for the Arch installation.
• 1 rk3588 SBC, Of Course!

after you have accuired those items, here is what you need to do.

Install

1. Flash the edk2 UEFI firmware for your board from here to an SD card or your board's SPI flash using your tool of choice.
2. Flash the correct Arch Linux image for your board from here to an EMMC, SSD, or USB drive using your tool of choice.

IMPORTANT!!! do not flash arch linux to the same device you flashed the UEFI firmware to. otherwise it will not boot.

Booting your system

1. Insert the SD card that holds the UEFI firmware. (if you flashed it to the SD card instead of SPI)
2. Plug in the storage device that you flashed Arch Linux to.
3. Enable devicetree mode in UEFI(explanation needed)
4. Boot up your system!

Login credentials:

• root user: root

• root password: root

• default user: alarm

• alarm password: alarm

Some things to do before anything else:

• initialize the pacman keyring with pacman-key --init; pacman-key --populate
• delete the "alarm" user, make a new user and reset the root password