It was also actually pretty fun!
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I’ve been killing myself in my free time to get a NanoPi R6S to boot from an SD card; wish I had this expertise.
Edit: I didn’t say this very clearly, I’ve been killing myself to build and compile U-Boot, the Linux kernel then building an image to write to an SD card that’ll actually boot.
Heh, this expertise is built on hundreds of "Why tf won't X boot from Y!!" and solid research skills lol you'll get there
Oops, I realize now that my comment made it seem like I can’t figure out how to write an image to external media and boot it properly. It was actually more intense than that, so I’ve updated it.
Not sure about your hardware, but try to look up if it requires a special kernel, like the RPi 5 (which only runs on raspbian because they ship that kernel)
The manufacturer ships several tools but a lot of the necessary files are shared from Google Drive, and each time I try to download one it says “download limit exceeded.” My goal is to build something more vanilla — I can see that the hardware is supported in the mainline kernel so I’m doing this with tons of trial and error (which I don’t mind).
I’m doing everything in a Dockerfile so once I’m there the goal is to clean it up and push it to GitHub.