Fedora on Pine64 ROCKPro64

 May 29, 2023

Recently, I was looking for a couple of Single Board Computers (SBCs) for a project I’m working on. Given the characteristics I was looking for, there were not many options; in the end, I opted for the ROCKPro64 by Pine64.

Once I received the SBC, I immediately tried to put Fedora on it. The process proved slightly more complex than I was expecting since I assumed that U-Boot (or some other boot loader) was already present on the board. Turns out, it is not! So, the first step became installing U-Boot. An aspect I really like about the ROCKPro64 is that it has 128Mb of Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash memory. I appreciate this fact because it allows me to install U-Boot there and then a standard OS on another storage device. Speaking of other storage devices, the ROCKPro64 features both an optional eMMC and the mSD Card slot. The process turned out more complex than I initially thought since my goal was to use Fedora on the eMMC, but I forgot to get the eMMC USB adapter, so I had to leverage the mSD Card as well.