Ok makes sense, just thought maybe someone has some secret sauce... Just for the sake of posterity here is what I was able to achieve so far: I am able to get to the install screen using the iso after after installing UEFI on the board but then it blanks out I am also able to make it work using .dtb following the debian instructions here: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/96Boards/HiKey960 (using the reference kernel in the bottom in order to make stuff work - so I guess not mainline...) and then transplanting centos aarch64 rootfs to that, i.e. only userspace tools (I think that's the term used?). Finally, I can't donate a board :( but being creative, I may be able to set up remote access to mine if that would be helpful. I could have you ssh into a system that is connected to its serial console (via usb). Cheers On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 3:30 PM Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 10/25/2018 04:50 PM, Skorpeo Skorpeo wrote: > > Has anyone been able to install centos using iso on a Hikey 960? The > > wiki says "The Hikey from 96boards mostly works, but setup is complex. > > The installer currently cannot be used as one would traditionally > expect." > > > > Any guides out there on how to get it to work? I am only able to get it > > to the initial installation menu but no further, I tried playing with > > various kernel parameters but to no avail. > > > > Any guidance or suggestions would be appreciated! > > I have no idea .. if someone wants to donate a board, I'll try to figure > it out and put the info on the wiki. > > There could be several sticking points .. are all the drivers in the > mainline kernel. > > The main issue here is those machines are armv8 (aarch64) but they do > not have uefi support .. that means that the standard CentOS-7 aarch64 > installer will not work. > > What you would instead need to do is BASICALLY either use armhfp (32bit) > install .. OR create a 64bit image similar to or armhfp 32 bit images > and then use a 64bit uboot. > > I have no idea if our uboot has 64 bit compiled software for that board > .. and we would need to create a 64bit image (which we need to try to do > anyway). > > One thing to keep in mind is our armhfp distro is designed for the hobby > type boards .. BUT our aarch64 distro is designed to run on large 64bit > UEFI arm servers, but hobby boards that don't follow the UEFI standard > and have limited RAM (that board as 3GB), etc. > > > _______________________________________________ > Arm-dev mailing list > Arm-dev at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/arm-dev > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/attachments/20181025/30b198a5/attachment-0006.html>