[Arm-dev] Trying to boot Centos 1804 on Orange Pi Zero

Mon Sep 17 21:09:24 UTC 2018
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Do you have a serial console port?  Can you monitor the boot process?

On 9/17/18 4:51 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Hello -
>
>    I'm just getting started in the work of Arm based boards.  I'd like to use
> CentOS on my Orange Pi Zero.  I've followed the instructions here:
> https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/armhfp but the system
> does not appear boot - no red LED, no ethernet activity.  It does when I use
> one of the Orange Pi provided Ubuntu images.
>
>    I'm using the /usr/share/uboot/orangepi_zero/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin uboot
> image, and CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804-sda.raw.xz centos
> image.  Comparing the contents of partition 1 which seems to be the boot
> partition, on the Orange Pi image I see:
>
> # ls -l /mnt
> total 4654
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     538 Nov  9  2016 boot.scr*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   34864 Nov  9  2016 script.bin*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   49292 Nov  9  2016 sys_config.fex*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4679592 Nov  9  2016 uImage*
>
> while on the Centos image I see:
>
> root at barry.cora.nwra.com [~]# ls -l /mnt
> total 12998
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   50248 May  1 06:26 bootcode.bin*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    4442 May  1 06:26 config-64.txt*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    4285 May  1 06:26 config.txt*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    2594 May  1 06:26 fixup_cd.dat*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    6581 May  1 06:26 fixup.dat*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    9726 May  1 06:26 fixup_db.dat*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    9726 May  1 06:26 fixup_x.dat*
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    2048 May  1 06:26 overlays/
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  411984 May  1 06:26 rpi2-u-boot.bin*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  422632 May  1 06:26 rpi3-u-boot.bin*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  667492 May  1 06:26 start_cd.elf*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 4965380 May  1 06:26 start_db.elf*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2827652 May  1 06:26 start.elf*
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3911652 May  1 06:26 start_x.elf*
>
> which seems more Raspberry Pi oriented?
>
>    Is there something I'm missing?
>