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Booting Ubuntu Linux on a LicheeRV


Sipeed made a microSD card image to boot Ubuntu on RISC-V based Allwinner D1 SoC. with their LicheeRV SoM.

Boot sequence on ASCIInema (local copy)

I made a copy of the image in my own repository, that’s faster/easier to download.
* SHA256sum: 4a414a36ba5ae8000bd2f8ee088ea399b502527e1868662427bc00676d65ca79

Just download the archive, untar and follow the instruction in the README. There is an error, the primary partition should start at 80MB (163840), not 40MB (81920). The is limited to 4Go, so it should be grown with resize2fs to have more place to work.

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Install Ubuntu-13.10 beta2 ARM on Cubieboard2 from another Cubie ARM system :)

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Work in progress: Following this tutorial there is still problem with automatic network dhcp and clock at boot time, until installing a full distro desktop. I still need to find the needed packages to resolve this without installing the full distro

Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy on Cubieboard2

Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy on Cubieboard2

In my case, I start from a previously installed system with u-boot and kernel, this make things easier.
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