Hello everybody, this is my first post here and i’ll leave a link to my github where i explain how i got ubuntu working on the milk-v duo with a guide:
it’s subject to changes since i just got this working, but please leave feedback
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I can’t imagine only 19MB ram is required to run Ubuntu. Great work!
We will introduce a 256MB ram version Duo version with will allow more heavier applications to run.
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oh my, that’s great! any timeline of when it will be out?
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I think it will be available in two weeks.
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Thanks a lot for the guide!
I made again a disk image with more additions (see Persistent RNDIS MAC addresses - Solution · Issue #27 · milkv-duo/duo-buildroot-sdk · GitHub) so one can login via virtual Ethernet over USB again: https://xyzdims.com/3d-printers/misc-hardware-notes/iot-milk-v-duo-risc-v-esbc-running-linux/#Ubuntu_Disk_Image
Also documented most of the changes I made to your guide, in case you like to adapt some of them.
How well does apt work for you? When I install new packages, it takes 4+ mins due the “Building dependency tree…” using up all RAM + swap.
Also, zram seems to require linux-headers/modules in order to work.
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hi, zram worked for me, i enabled it in the buildroot kernel config as shown on the guide then all i had to do was install zram-config, enable it with sudo systemctl enable zram-config and reboot.
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Ah, redid build_milkv.sh with rm -rf build/output first again, now it worked.
systemctl status zram-config excerpt:
Sep 19 16:57:12 milkv-duo init-zram-swapping[255]: Setting up swapspace version 1, size = **27.5 MiB (28811264 bytes)**
apt is still very slow, same for you @treble?
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that’s great! yeah APT is also slow on my end when it’s building the dependency tree
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Hi @treble, please could you provide a link to the guide you used to enable zram (in the Linux kernel) or elaborate further?
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hi, there’s a few comments in the guide i wrote that show you how to do that :
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any news in regards to this?
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@treble just wanted to drop a note and say thanks for that awesome write up.
I was able to follow your instructions and got Ubuntu working!
I don’t understand why at the end you created a tar file, that whole step seems unecessary.
You can mount the system image directly, wipe it, and build ubuntu inside of that.
My image is named milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img here are the commands:
fdisk -l milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img
Disk milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img: 2.13 GiB, 2281701888 bytes, 4456449 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img1 * 1 262144 262144 128M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img2 262145 4456448 4194304 2G 83 Linux
milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img3 4456449 4980736 524288 256M 0 Empty
Then calculate the offset, in my example that’s the start 262145*512 (multipled by the sector size)
offset=$(expr 262145 \* 512)
devloop=$(sudo losetup -o $offset -f --show milkv-duo-20231207-0834.img)
# ex: /dev/loop4
sudo mkdir /mnt/milkv_duo
sudo mount $devloop /mnt/milkv_duo
the filesystem of the image is now mounted on /mnt/milkv_duo
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Duo 256M is available to pre order now at:
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ahhh that’s sick, thanks for the help i’ll probably update the guide and credit you
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Two weeks? I’m assuming it’s already out at this point. Is there a place you can purchase one?
update: nevermind, saw the link haha
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I setup my SD card with the rootfs image provided in the GitHub repository, indicating having a link to my router (OpenWRT), but I’m not getting an IP address from DHCP. Did I do something wrong?
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Are you using the Duo IO board? Which image did you write to the SD card?
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hi, what’s the output of ip a ? did you try running dhclient -v eth0
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Yeah, I thought I mentioned it but apparently forgot about it. As for image I followed the instructions to build my own and copied the rootfs from the github repo to the SD after wiping the old rootfs
Also, any news on when the 256mb model will ship?
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