[Solved] Custom installed ARMtix on RPi4. Firmware not found

04 April 2025, 15:36:21

I've created an installer for a custom build of ARMtix as it'll have an app installed by default.

But I'm still missing pieces for it to work.
Currently I'm missing firmware.

As far as I can tell raspberrypi-firmware is needed from the alarm repository.
Does anyone know how to best obtain that?

Re: Custom installed ARMtix on RPi4. Firmware not found

Reply #1 – 04 April 2025, 21:00:17

Hi. I downloaded the Arch Linux ARM image for RPi4 and copied the firmware files from that image's /boot to RPi4 storage.

http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-rpi-aarch64-latest.tar.gz

Re: Custom installed ARMtix on RPi4. Firmware not found

Reply #2 – 05 April 2025, 16:50:17

Solved by mounting the partitions, artix-chrooting and downloading and installing the alarm firmware packages.

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sudo mount /dev/sda2 /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/mnt
sudo mount -o compress=zstd,subvol=@ /dev/sdd2 /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/mnt
sudo mount -o compress=zstd,subvol=@home /dev/sdd2 /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/mnt/home
sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/mnt/boot
sudo artix-chroot /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/mnt/
cd /var/tmp
wget http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/aarch64/alarm/firmware-raspberrypi-20240831-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
pacman -U /var/tmp/firmware-raspberrypi-20240831-2-any.pkg.tar.xz
wget http://mirror.archlinuxarm.org/aarch64/alarm/raspberrypi-bootloader-20250331-1-any.pkg.tar.xz      
pacman -U /var/tmp/raspberrypi-bootloader-20250331-1-any.pkg.tar.xz 
pacman -S linux-rpi

Unfortunately, I have run into another issue..
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,8003.0.html