Good time everyone! The problem is that it is impossible to install images with an ISO extension via the USB flash tool. When starting the installation via USB and SD card with an EFI script, the installer does not see the emmc memory. What is the reason for this blocking? After playing around with images from owoow, it became necessary to install a third-party distribution and I realized that the USB flash tool was the only option. However, judging from my side, it seems that the development of this utility was abandoned, I could be wrong and I apologize for earlier.
This problem was raised in the post above, but all attempts to repeat it due to my inexperience led to failure. On the official owoow website it is written about full support for this utility; however, most scripts for installing ALT linux are not provided for Edge 2.
I would be very grateful for help with my experiment. Letās say a current link or perhaps instructions on how to install on Edge 2, letās say the official UBUNTU from github, and not a crooked resemblance to a rebuilt Frankenstein. Thank you very much and sorry if I was wrong somewhere.
Post a console log of your issue below:
Logs now there is no way to send edge 2 now without any system it lies and waits for ALT linux)
What .iso images are u trying to install?
From what I understood .iso images or .img images are for uefi which requires u to flash uefi to boot .isos from your usbā¦ if you are trying that on the edge 2ā¦ brather my experience suckedā¦ I cant stand to loose oowow over the current uefi.
If what you want is Arch Linux please try this guide:
Panda and Kwankiu are and have been working on arch linux for the arm boards and they actually have working images on the most recent kernel 6.1 and 6.8 (however mainline is broken better stick to 6.1 or 5.10).
kwankiu is soon to make upgrades on our side and will eventually get it working perfectly.
Try pandaa image for now.
To all images all u need to do is basically put them into your usb into yourel edge 2 booting into oowow and selecting āallā to see all files in ur usb and flash them.
PS: yes this UEFI firmware unofficial and sure may have some problems, but in my case works, and can start any OS, freebsd, windows, linux, but UEFI canāt solve all problem , for example if you distro can recognize emmc properly or has some other drivers problem
I did that process but ive ignored the āimportantā code.
All I did was the next step āwrite-uefi-to-emmcā code.
It worked I was able to boot uefi and boot openSuse.
Howeverā¦ Upon installation both opensuse freeBSD and Armbian couldnt detect my emmc storageā¦ and thatā¦ was the āsuckerā part.
All images Ive tried couldnt detect any free storage obliging me to either use the same usb I was booting the images from as its storage or as I did connecting an nvme via usb c and using it as Storage ā¦ as U can imagineā¦ it run dead slow.
Idk what I did wrong in the process to get uefi installed that emmc couldnt be detected as storageā¦ @Electr1 was my saviour getting back into oowow and everything was fixed.
So yeah I had a bad experience but it wasnt khadas faultā¦ probably just a bad procedure.
But is that how its meant to be ? Or I just made the mistake of flashing uefi on emmc other than spi and one led to emmc not being the default storage ?
Either way makes it some what impossible to use for uefi images.
Worst than that is thatā¦ the feeling I had overall is that all uefi images are way heavier than properly images so its best to keep ourselfs to the armbians or arch linuxs light weight linuxes that can run better on our boards ā¦ otherwise it feels like windows 11 for armā¦
Thank you very much for your answer, did I understand correctly that if the OS is distributed only through ISO, then it is not possible to make it into a format suitable for owoow? Is it easier to take the additional distribution and build the applications inside for yourself?
