arm-image-install doesn't work for me on F35 - bug? - arm - Fedora mailing-lists

23 Jan 2022

      I just tried today to install Arm Rawhide candidate  on my Rock Pi 4 and and was only successful after modifying arm-image-installer.
Originally i got:
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[root@zbox ~]# arm-image-installer --image=Fedora-Server-Rawhide-20220118.n.0.aarch64.raw.xz     --target=rock-pi-4-rk3399 --media=/dev/sdb
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= Selected Image:                                 
= Fedora-Server-Rawhide-20220118.n.0.aarch64.raw.xz
= Selected Media : /dev/sdb
= U-Boot Target : rock-pi-4-rk3399
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*****************************************************
*****************************************************
******** WARNING! ALL DATA WILL BE DESTROYED ********
*****************************************************
*****************************************************
Type 'YES' to proceed, anything else to exit now
= Proceed?
= Proceed? YES
= Writing: 
= Fedora-Server-Rawhide-20220118.n.0.aarch64.raw.xz 
= To: /dev/sdb ....
7485333504 Bytes (7,5 GB, 7,0 GiB) kopiert, 178 s, 42,1 MB/s
0+835568 Datensätze ein
0+835568 Datensätze aus
7516192768 Bytes (7,5 GB, 7,0 GiB) kopiert, 178,864 s, 42,0 MB/s
= Writing image complete!
(no output for a very long time)
= No U-Boot files found for rock-pi-4-rk3399.
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The reason was an unsuitable  value in the variable prefix.
I modified line 532 and could successfully copy the image file and boot the rock pi
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if [ "$IOT_IMAGE" = "1" ]; then
        # dd doesnt support wildcards, echo to expand
        PREFIX=$(echo $OSTREE_PREFIX)
elif [ "$BTRFS" = "1" ]; then
        PREFIX="/tmp/root/root/"
else
        # PREFIX=/tmp/root     # <===
        PREFIX="“              # <===
fi
# determine uboot and write to disk
if [ "$TARGET" != "" ]; then
        echo "=== DEBUG Target: $TARGET "
        echo "=== DEBUG PATH:   ${PREFIX}/usr/share/uboot/${TARGET} "
        echo "=== DEBUG BOARDDIR: ${BOARDDIR}/${TARGET} "
        echo    
        if echo "$TARGET" | grep -q 'rpi[234]' || [ "$TARGET" = "olpc_xo175" ]; then
                . "${BOARDDIR}/${TARGET}"
        elif [ -d "${PREFIX}/usr/share/uboot/${TARGET}" ]; then
                . "${BOARDDIR}/${TARGET}"
        else
                echo "= No U-Boot files found for $TARGET."
        fi
else
        echo "= No U-boot will be written."
        TARGET="board"
fi
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The F35 system I used to copy the image file is fully updated as of today.
Best
Peter