The easies way to install vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 on raspberry pi 4b

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smallphd
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The easies way to install vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 on raspberry pi 4b

Post by smallphd » 2020/08/08 08:58:46

Hi, all
Normally, vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 can not be installed to raspberry pi 4b.

@Pablo provides method to install a modified CentOS 8.2 kernel to raspberry pi 4b:
https://people.centos.org/pgreco/CentOS ... Minimal-4/

And he also suggests me use RPI4_UEFI in https://rpi4-uefi.dev/. It is a SBBR-compliant (UEFI+ACPI) AArch64 firmware for the Raspberry Pi 4.

The following is my operations to install a vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 to raspberry pi 4b.

1.Download uefi firmware
https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/d ... _v1.18.zip
2.Create an SD card in `MBR` mode with a single partition of type `0x0c` (`FAT32 LBA`) or `0x0e` (`FAT16 LBA`). Then format this partition to `FAT`.
3.Extract all the files from the archive onto the partition you created above.
4.Insert the SD card.
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5.Prepare two usb drives.
6.Burn the vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 image to a USB drive1.
7.Plug both USB drives and power up your Raspberry Pi.
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8.Now you will see the install procedure as normal. Please select the USB drive2 as the destiny drive.

andreas_reschke
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Re: The easies way to install vanilla CentOS 8.2 aarch64 on raspberry pi 4b

Post by andreas_reschke » 2021/08/03 09:31:07

Hi there,
I've done follow steps, but with up2date CentOS Stream 8 ISO and up2date RPi4_UEFI_Firmware.

Everything works fine except Network wasn't available during installation and afterwards after installation.

No Network card found.

How to resolve this issue?

Thanks
Andreas

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