ArchLinux ARM on odroid c2¶

Installation¶

installation guide: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/amlogic/odroid-c2
default login: dhcp over ethernet + ssh, usr/pwd: alarm/alarm

some issue¶

ext4 metadata checksum
- Why we use options to format ext4 fs: mkfs.ext4 -O ^metadata_csum,^64bit /dev/sdX1
- Re: ODROID-C2 won’t boot to Arch but it will to Ubuntu [SOLVED]
- https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Metadata_Checksums
how to serial console on odroid c2
- UART to USB Module Kit
- Serial connection for Odroid

Basic Usage¶

use package management system

update package database first, or you may not find package because of wrong package version:
```
su root
pacman -Syy

# download URL is based on package version.
```

install basic tools for test:

pacman -S sudo
pacman -S git vim tmux
pacman -S htop strace lsof

Use KVM on odroid c2¶

Choose userspace tool:
- build qemu/kvm-tool from scratch
- use qemu/kvmtool build by VOS [1]
- use Ubuntu’s QEMU deb package
Choose guest OS image (Linux): Prepare AArch64 Linux guest OS image for more information.
- Linaro Release by OpenEmbedded: minimal, LAMP
- Ubuntu cloud image
- Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora AArch64 release

[1] Virtual Open System

Misc¶

QEMU networking: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Linux_guest

Analysis difference of odroid-c2 / rpi3 ArchLinux ARM¶

ArchLinux default packages
- odroid-c2 v.s. rpi3
  - kernel + bootloader
  - rpi3 has wireless repo
  - odroid-c2 has initramfs repo