Install of `readymade-bluefin-lts-aarch64.iso` Fails On PinebookPro

[dperson]

I downloaded the ISO, wrote it to an external USB, and booted up just fine. The installer ran most of (?) the way through and failed running the bootupctrl to setup the EFI. See the log below:

   0: Readymade subprocess failed

Location:
   src/backend/install.rs:369

Note: exit status: 1
Note: Logs:
Setting env var NO_COLOR to 1
Setting env var READYMADE_LOG to info
  2025-07-06T16:43:28.839026Z  INFO readymade: Readymade Installer 0.12.2
    at src/main.rs:344

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.839147Z  INFO readymade: Logging to journald
    at src/main.rs:348

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.839176Z  INFO readymade: Logging to /tmp/readymade-logsnwX8ZD/readymade.log
    at src/main.rs:349

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.839207Z  INFO readymade: Running in non-interactive mode
    at src/main.rs:232

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.839894Z  INFO readymade::backend::install: Layering repart templates
    at src/backend/install.rs:391
    in readymade::backend::install::install with self: FinalInstallationState { langlocale: "en_US.UTF-8", destination_disk: DiskInit { disk_name: "mmc-DA4128_0x11cbce3e (mmcblk0)", os_name: "Unknown OS", devpath: "/dev/mmcblk0", size: 116.5 GiB (125090922496 bytes) }, installation_type: WholeDisk, encrypts: Some(EncryptState { tpm: false, encryption_key: "aawtrQsfyh@69" }), config: ReadymadeConfig { distro: Distro { name: "Bluefin", icon: "fedora-logo-icon" }, install: Install { allowed_installtypes: [WholeDisk], copy_mode: Bootc, bootc_imgref: Some("containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts"), bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: None, bootc_args: Some(["--skip-fetch-check"]) }, postinstall: [Script(Script)], bentos: [Bento { title: "page-welcome", desc: "page-installation-welcome-desc", link: "https://projectbluefin.io", icon: "explore-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-help", desc: "page-installation-help-desc", link: "https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bluefin/6", icon: "chat-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-contrib", desc: "page-installation-contrib-desc", link: "https://docs.projectbluefin.io", icon: "applications-development-symbolic" }] }, copy_mode: Bootc { bootc_imgref: "containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts", bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: [], bootc_args: ["--skip-fetch-check"] } }

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.840377Z  INFO readymade::util::fs: Copying directory using internal implementation, from: "/usr/share/readymade/repart-cfgs/bootcwholedisk", to: "/run/readymade-install"
    at src/util/fs.rs:150
    in readymade::backend::install::install with self: FinalInstallationState { langlocale: "en_US.UTF-8", destination_disk: DiskInit { disk_name: "mmc-DA4128_0x11cbce3e (mmcblk0)", os_name: "Unknown OS", devpath: "/dev/mmcblk0", size: 116.5 GiB (125090922496 bytes) }, installation_type: WholeDisk, encrypts: Some(EncryptState { tpm: false, encryption_key: "aawtrQsfyh@69" }), config: ReadymadeConfig { distro: Distro { name: "Bluefin", icon: "fedora-logo-icon" }, install: Install { allowed_installtypes: [WholeDisk], copy_mode: Bootc, bootc_imgref: Some("containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts"), bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: None, bootc_args: Some(["--skip-fetch-check"]) }, postinstall: [Script(Script)], bentos: [Bento { title: "page-welcome", desc: "page-installation-welcome-desc", link: "https://projectbluefin.io", icon: "explore-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-help", desc: "page-installation-help-desc", link: "https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bluefin/6", icon: "chat-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-contrib", desc: "page-installation-contrib-desc", link: "https://docs.projectbluefin.io", icon: "applications-development-symbolic" }] }, copy_mode: Bootc { bootc_imgref: "containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts", bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: [], bootc_args: ["--skip-fetch-check"] } }

  2025-07-06T16:43:28.849824Z  INFO readymade::backend::install: Using /run/rootfsbase as copy source, as it exists presumably due to raw rootfs in dracut
    at src/backend/install.rs:778
    in readymade::backend::install::systemd_repart with blockdev: "/dev/mmcblk0", cfgdir: "/run/readymade-install", use_keyfile: true, is_bootc: true
    in readymade::backend::install::stage-mkpart
    in readymade::backend::install::install with self: FinalInstallationState { langlocale: "en_US.UTF-8", destination_disk: DiskInit { disk_name: "mmc-DA4128_0x11cbce3e (mmcblk0)", os_name: "Unknown OS", devpath: "/dev/mmcblk0", size: 116.5 GiB (125090922496 bytes) }, installation_type: WholeDisk, encrypts: Some(EncryptState { tpm: false, encryption_key: "aawtrQsfyh@69" }), config: ReadymadeConfig { distro: Distro { name: "Bluefin", icon: "fedora-logo-icon" }, install: Install { allowed_installtypes: [WholeDisk], copy_mode: Bootc, bootc_imgref: Some("containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts"), bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: None, bootc_args: Some(["--skip-fetch-check"]) }, postinstall: [Script(Script)], bentos: [Bento { title: "page-welcome", desc: "page-installation-welcome-desc", link: "https://projectbluefin.io", icon: "explore-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-help", desc: "page-installation-help-desc", link: "https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bluefin/6", icon: "chat-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-contrib", desc: "page-installation-contrib-desc", link: "https://docs.projectbluefin.io", icon: "applications-development-symbolic" }] }, copy_mode: Bootc { bootc_imgref: "containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts", bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: [], bootc_args: ["--skip-fetch-check"] } }

/run/readymade-luks.key has 0644 mode that is too permissive, please adjust the ownership and access mode.
/run/readymade-install/50-root.conf:4: Too many arguments in MountPoint=, ignoring: /:subvol=/,compress=zstd:1
/run/readymade-install/50-root.conf:5: Too many arguments in MountPoint=, ignoring: /home:subvol=/home,compress=zstd:1
Applying changes to /dev/mmcblk0.
Wiped block device.
Discarded entire block device.
Successfully wiped file system signatures from future partition 0.
Successfully wiped file system signatures from future partition 1.
Successfully wiped file system signatures from future partition 2.
Formatting future partition 0.
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
/dev/loop1 successfully formatted as vfat (label "EFI-SYSTEM", uuid e295a65e)
Successfully formatted future partition 0.
Syncing future partition 0 contents to disk.
Formatting future partition 1.
mke2fs 1.47.1 (20-May-2024)
Discarding device blocks:      0/524288             done                            
Creating filesystem with 524288 4k blocks and 131072 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 411a157b-c3a8-4de2-b7c5-361cda14eaee
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Allocating group tables:  0/16     done                            
Writing inode tables:  0/16     done                            
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:  0/16     done

/dev/loop1 successfully formatted as ext4 (label "xbootldr", uuid 411a157b-c3a8-4de2-b7c5-361cda14eaee)
Successfully formatted future partition 1.
Syncing future partition 1 contents to disk.
Encrypting future partition 2...
Successfully encrypted future partition 2.
Formatting future partition 2.
btrfs-progs v6.12
See https://btrfs.readthedocs.io for more information.

Performing full device TRIM /dev/mapper/luks-repart-a44284b5e7d276cf (113.96GiB) ...
NOTE: several default settings have changed in version 5.15, please make sure
      this does not affect your deployments:
      - DUP for metadata (-m dup)
      - enabled no-holes (-O no-holes)
      - enabled free-space-tree (-R free-space-tree)

Label:              root-arm64
UUID:               84f02294-3c66-4bba-b14a-131b7155b4cd
Node size:          16384
Sector size:        4096(CPU page size: 4096)
Filesystem size:    113.96GiB
Block group profiles:
  Data:             single            8.00MiB
  Metadata:         DUP               1.00GiB
  System:           DUP               8.00MiB
SSD detected:       yes
Zoned device:       no
Features:           extref, skinny-metadata, no-holes, free-space-tree
Checksum:           crc32c
Number of devices:  1
Devices:
   ID        SIZE  PATH                                    
    1   113.96GiB  /dev/mapper/luks-repart-a44284b5e7d276cf

/dev/mapper/luks-repart-a44284b5e7d276cf successfully formatted as btrfs (label "root-arm64", uuid 84f02294-3c66-4bba-b14a-131b7155b4cd)
Successfully formatted future partition 2.
Syncing future partition 2 contents to disk.
Adding new partition 0 to partition table.
Adding new partition 1 to partition table.
Adding new partition 2 to partition table.
Writing new partition table.
Telling kernel to reread partition table.
All done.
  2025-07-06T16:45:15.680484Z  INFO readymade::backend::install: running bootc install to-filesystem, imgref: "containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts"
    at src/backend/install.rs:583
    in readymade::backend::install::install with self: FinalInstallationState { langlocale: "en_US.UTF-8", destination_disk: DiskInit { disk_name: "mmc-DA4128_0x11cbce3e (mmcblk0)", os_name: "Unknown OS", devpath: "/dev/mmcblk0", size: 116.5 GiB (125090922496 bytes) }, installation_type: WholeDisk, encrypts: Some(EncryptState { tpm: false, encryption_key: "aawtrQsfyh@69" }), config: ReadymadeConfig { distro: Distro { name: "Bluefin", icon: "fedora-logo-icon" }, install: Install { allowed_installtypes: [WholeDisk], copy_mode: Bootc, bootc_imgref: Some("containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts"), bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: None, bootc_args: Some(["--skip-fetch-check"]) }, postinstall: [Script(Script)], bentos: [Bento { title: "page-welcome", desc: "page-installation-welcome-desc", link: "https://projectbluefin.io", icon: "explore-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-help", desc: "page-installation-help-desc", link: "https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bluefin/6", icon: "chat-symbolic" }, Bento { title: "page-installation-contrib", desc: "page-installation-contrib-desc", link: "https://docs.projectbluefin.io", icon: "applications-development-symbolic" }] }, copy_mode: Bootc { bootc_imgref: "containers-storage:ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts", bootc_target_imgref: None, bootc_enforce_sigpolicy: true, bootc_kargs: [], bootc_args: ["--skip-fetch-check"] } }

Installing image: ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin:lts
Initializing ostree layout
layers already present: 0; layers needed: 72 (2.6 GB)
Deploying container image...done (3 minutes)
Running bootupctl to install bootloader
> bootupctl backend install --write-uuid --update-firmware --auto --device /dev/mmcblk0 /tmp/.tmpY9PABp
Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system
error: boot data installation failed: installing component EFI: Updating EFI firmware variables: Adding new EFI boot entry: Failed to invoke efibootmgr
ERROR Installing to filesystem: Installing bootloader: Task Running bootupctl to install bootloader failed: ExitStatus(unix_wait_status(256))
Error: 
   0: `bootc install to-filesystem` failed

Location:
   src/backend/install.rs:601

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[linear]

FYRA-332 Install of `readymade-bluefin-lts-aarch64.iso` Fails On PinebookPro

[nothingneko]

are you on tow boot or stock?

[dperson]

Tow-Boot 2023.07-007 (kinda old, but the latest release)

[nothingneko]

@Owen-sz and i have been wrestling with this hardware for months, even if you can get the EFI to install it won't boot.

try wiping the disk before trying the install again. good luck and let me know if you have any more issues

[Owen-sz]

There is a way to get fedora to work, check out here

There's a few forum help posts about getting fedora working too if that doesn't work.
When using anaconda it also errors, during the boot loader install, but you're able to have it proceed anyway.

[dperson]

I was able to get it installed and working. Here are the workarounds.

NOTE: /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX the XXXXXX is a random string and will be different on each run.

NOTE2: the hashes & UUIDs are specific to my system and this particular build of the readymade Bluefin LTS ISO and will be different for you. To get the UUID of a device, use the blkid <device> command.

1. Tow-Boot doesn't like the EFI fat32 having a FS block size different than the media block size. Nothing was actually written to the /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/efi (an empty FS). So I ran as root: umount /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/efi; mkfs.fat -F 32 -S 512 /dev/mmcblk0p1; mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/efi.
2. To add most of the needed files run: bootupctl backend install --write-uuid --auto --device /dev/mmcblk0 /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX. Note that it's the same command that failed, minus the --update-firmware.
3. The /boot/loader/entries is missing, to correct it run the following:

• mkdir -p /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/loader.1/entries
• ln -s loader.1 /tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/loader
• The following code block will create the file:

cat >/tmp/.tmpXXXXXX/boot/loader/ostree-1.conf <<EOF
title Bluefin LTS (ostree:1)
version 1
options rd.luks.uuid=luks-15cece20-a5cd-41bf-b7f8-baab83cb0a91 rd.luks.options=discard rhgb quiet root=UUID=4f16b9d3-4720-42ec-9651-4b94f2bb498f rw ostree=/ostree/boot.1/default/f43afd90846745509c97acb10e913f601986cafde0cc5a002fbf6b51bf5ebad7/0
linux /ostree/default-f43afd90846745509c97acb10e913f601986cafde0cc5a002fbf6b51bf5ebad7/vmlinuz-6.15.4-1.el10.aarch64
initrd /ostree/default-f43afd90846745509c97acb10e913f601986cafde0cc5a002fbf6b51bf5ebad7/initramfs-6.15.4-1.el10.aarch64.img
dtb /ostree/default-f43afd90846745509c97acb10e913f601986cafde0cc5a002fbf6b51bf5ebad7/dtb/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
EOF