Hi Felix,

Thanks for your report and detailed steps.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Niederwanger <phoe...@feldspaten.org>
> 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

You could create a page for this board on the openSUSE wiki, if you want to.
That's usually where we point people for arm board support information.

Cheers,
Guillaume

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