Where to download ARM64/AARCH64 ISO

Hi,

Yes, I came here from Lunduke.

I have experience with Linux and virtualization (and bare metal) but am a Mac user day to day.
I want to install OM in a VM on my MacBook Pro with M2Pro chip, this is an ARM (apple silicon) chip, and “emulating” x86 is so slow as to be utterly pointless.

However I cannot for the life of me find the download link for an ARM/AARCH version of OM (Rome or rock) despite multiple mentions of OM it apparently supporting ARM when searching the web.

So, does OM currently support ARM devices? if so, where do I download an ISO?’

thanks in advance for any help.

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We do support aarch64, but there is no generic aarch64 iso because almost every board has its own idea of what bootloader needs to be used, what kernel patches are needed, etc. – e.g. for a Rock 5B, we need u-boot, an Ampere Altra does UEFI, a Raspberry Pi uses its own custom bootloader, …
So we build custom images for aarch64 devices.
I have no idea what exactly is in a MacBook these days, but it looks like it should do UEFI. Chances are an Ampere Altra image would boot at least to text mode. No idea if it needs any special drivers etc. though.
Will build something you can try out in a bit, but no guarantees that it will work.

Hey,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yeah UEFI should probably work since it would be running as a VM in VirtualBox or UTM

I don’t know if this helps any, but the ARM64 version of Debian “just works”, I’m pretty sure its UEFI
But you know… wokeness and all… So I’d much rather use and support OM

Would be great if there was a generic/uefi/VM version of OM, I can’t imagine I’m the only person who has an apple silicon Mac who would like to virtualize OM.

Hey

I know you guys have probably been slammed in the last couple weeks (watching Lunduke’s update video now…) and this may have either been forgotten about or just buried under the avalanche of other newbs, so I figured I’d poke in and see if there’s been any movement/progress on this?

For what it’s worth, I am more than happy to contribute with bug reports, testing and trouble shooting. I’m a former programmer and pen tester, and I can honestly claim to have crashed every single OS I have ever used. Yes. Even MSDOS 6.22. Yes. I’m an “old”.

Tks in advance

There are some cooker server baremetal aarch64 ISO’s here. Use at your own risk?

https://abf.openmandriva.org/product_build_lists

Hi, indeed we’ve been swamped with both the new users coming in and 6.0 getting ready to be released.
There has been some progress on this:
https://abf.openmandriva.org/platforms/cooker/products/187
is a minimal, text-only version that should work on any aarch64 box with UEFI support. I’ve tried booting it on my Altra (works), my eMag (works) and a VM on Hetzner (works).
While this is just an extremely minimalistic image, the full repositories are available (so you can do stuff like dnf install task-plasma6.
There will be full featured desktop images later, my first priority was getting a minimalistic server up (needed it at work).

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hey,

Thanks to both of you, I downloaded the link suggested.
I’ll be honest, I have no experience with .img files, I’m used to setting up VMs with .iso files

when using UTM to virtualize it, I selected “boot from kernel image” (made sense to me since the other options is boot from iso…), allocated 4 gigs of ram to it and 20 gigs of HD space, “booted” the VM and it just sits there saying “Display output is not active”

and Virtual Box doesn’t seem to want to let me do anything with an img file.

for what it’s worth, I also downloaded the iso from here:

(old version, I know, but I wanted to try it anyway)
here’s what I got when I booted it in UTM as a VM:

hope some of this helps.

Is Secure Boot turned on?

re secure boot, do you mean on the ISO built vm? or the IMG VM?
either way, turning it on had no effect on either vm.

Secure boot usually needs to be turned off for the guest. I think it’s enabled by default sometimes. It sounds like you tried it turned off and got the same error.

I would try the version from the abf link:

I did try that one, thats the IMG file I referenced above, that one just says “Display output is not active”, I’m using UTM for MacOS in case anyone is trying to replicate my errors.

I would suggest probably video driver related. Here is an issue with a similar error:

We probably won’t have hardware to replicate the issue, but using a simpler driver and disabling any effects might get further in the process.

thanks,

well, I tried changing the emulated display hardware to every single option in the list: none worked

I read the ubuntu thread, tried a few of those solutions, they didn’t work either.

like the one commenter on the ubuntu thread, if I do an install from the ISO (with gui) I don’t have the display issue, but as posted above I have that weird mapping table/alias issue.

also, as I stated in one of my earlier posts, I have installed the aarch64 (arm64) version of ubuntu and it worked first try, no funny business, just a typical Linux VM install.

I’m not in a huge rush, and I know that this is not the priority right now; new users swamping the board and a new version release are, and that’s totally cool and understandable

The last thing I can recommend would be to try installing VirtualBox. I don’t know if Mac is the same as Windows, but you may not be able to install more than one host software on the same system. If you can use VirtualBox without removing your other host software, please try to boot the img there.

k, this worked, followed this tutorial:

and I am now at a login prompt… and I have no idea what the password is…

little help? @bero

thanks.

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its cool, found the password on a different download page (omv)

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hey,

so I ran into some problems with expanding the hard drive of that image which prevented me from installing anything. This comes down to mostly my lack of low level disk manipulation knowledge in linux.

Has there been any progress towards an ISO that can do a full install?