Qemu Chroot Into an Img File

July 22, 2023 2 min read 223 words
Preface Full disk images contain the bootloader and partition table. To mount an image file, view the contents of the file, then specify a byte offset that points to the beginning of our linux root partition.

Qemu Chroot Into a Different Architecture

July 22, 2023 1 min read 111 words
Chrooting into systems with different architectures Preface The qemu-user-static package provides several usermode emulation binaries. We can copy these over to our chroot environment to emulate programs from a different architecture.

Pinebook Pro Troubleshooting Common Issues

July 22, 2023 3 min read 562 words
Preface I'm addressing common problem with the pbp more than anything. Go down the list until you find something that's relevant to you.

Pinebook Pro Setting Up Zram

July 22, 2023 1 min read 147 words
Preface ZRAM is essentially compressed memory. Your system uses some of it's CPU cycles to compress redundant data into a reserved area of your ram.

Pinebook Pro Write to Spi Flash

July 22, 2023 1 min read 211 words
WARNING Be prepared to recover your broken SPI flash if an error occurs. When a binary is written to the SPI flash, the SPI flash will be what chooses which drives to boot from.

Pinebook Pro Use Nvme as Root

July 22, 2023 1 min read 124 words
Preface I assume that you have an nvme drive with a formatted ext4 partition present. I'm using Manjaro Arm. I've tested this on Alarm and I'd imagine it would work on debian aswell.

Pinebook Pro Netbsd Installation

July 22, 2023 2 min read 382 words
Preface I'm going to assume that you've already copied the netbsd image to your device and have booted into your system.

Pinebook Pro Keyboard Firmware Update

July 22, 2023 1 min read 175 words
Preface This is a verbatim copy of the directions written on jackhumbert's git. Installtion # compile git clone https://github.com/jackhumbert/pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater cd pinebook-pro-keyboard-updater sudo apt-get install build-essential libusb-1.

Pinebook Pro Custom Kernel

July 22, 2023 3 min read 476 words
Preface Here's how to compile tsys' mainline linux kernel for the Pinebook Pro. I'm using the "debian way" of installing the kernel.