Pi Zero 2 with Arch or NixOS?

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Hello,

Has anyone ever installed a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Archlinux or NixOS?

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I have two Pi Zero 2W but I’m just running Debian armhf on them (even though they’re 64 bit capable)…

One of them has some specific stuff on it - it’s the guts of a Beepy! (formerly known as BeepBerry - i.e. its a low power display and a Blackberry keyboard and battery)…

But the other one I don’t use much - it’s basically setup with Raspbian as a USB “gadget”… Easy enough to swap out the SD card…

Yeah - Nah… Sorry - looks like a lot of work… Pi Foundation gives me ready-made img to flash… Not so NixOS…

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Yes, significantly more work than writing a finished image on an SD card. I want to try this guide for Arch this weekend:

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So I tried all the tricks I know but Arch and Manjaro for ARM won’t boot.
Nothing happend. So I will use DietPi for the Zero and will get an Pi 4 or 5 tu run Arch or Manjaro.

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Did you try tow-boot? I managed to boot my arm64 with that but not with u-boot. When using tow-boot it finds grub and then I can boot to Gentoo. Maybe it’s the same with Arch?

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No but I will give it a try. Thanks!

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If Arch fails check the Gentoo wiki:

It’s probably quite similar process for both OSes

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Can you briefly explain how I have to proceed here?

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I used this page PINE64 Pinebook Pro | Tow-Boot because I use Pinebook Pro but there’s also instructions for Pi: Raspberry Pi Combined AArch64 | Tow-Boot

I think you need to use the shared storage strategy, here’s more info. Getting Started | Tow-Boot

My laptop has a dedicated internal boot disk which I could use for Tow-Boot and then I have a EFI partition and / partition:

pete@pine:~ $ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
mmcblk0 179:0 0 58.2G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 1000M 0 part /efi
├─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 5.9G 0 part [SWAP]
└─mmcblk0p3 179:3 0 51.4G 0 part /
mmcblk0boot0 179:8 0 4M 1 disk
mmcblk0boot1 179:16 0 4M 1 disk

If this didn’t help you could always try to install Gentoo. There’s great instructions in my previous reply.

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