• Installing Fedora on DragonBoard410c
  • What is Fedora?
  • Installation
    • Requirements
    • Download Files:
    • Flash Bootloader

Installing Fedora on DragonBoard410c

What is Fedora?

Fedora is a Linux distribution developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Fedora contains software distributed under various free and open-source licenses and aims to be on the leading edge of such technologies. Fedora is the upstream source of the commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

Installation

Requirements

• DragonBoard410c
• Host system with SDCard slot running Fedora.

Download Files:

• Bootloader
• U-Boot
• LK firmware with display output
• Fedora Aarch64 Build

Flash Bootloader

• Extract rescue zip:

    unzip dragonboard410c_bootloader_emmc_linux-88.zip
    cd dragonboard410c_bootloader_emmc_linux-88
  

• Set Dragonboard410c to fastboot mode
  • Hold down the volume down button, labeled as ‘(-)’ near the middle USB port and then power it on.
  • Wait around 30 seconds to ensure it’s booted to fastboot.
  • You can test this with the fastboot devices command.
• Flash firmware:

    sudo ./flashall
    sudo fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
    sudo fastboot flash boot u-boot.img
    sudo fastboot oem select-display-panel adv7533_1080p
  

• Install arm-image-installer: sudo dnf install arm-image-installer
• Insert micro-SDCard in the host machine and run the following command to flash the image:

    sudo arm-image-installer --target=dragonboard410c --image=Fedora-Server-29-1.2.aarch64.raw.xz --addconsole --norootpass --resizefs --media=/dev/sdX
  

  • Replace /dev/sdX with the drive name of the SDCard.
• Once the SDCard is flashed, insert it into your DragonBoard410c and reboot.