Arch Linux Pine64 Star64 Test Report

Test Environment

Operating System Information

• Source code Link: https://github.com/yogo1212/arch-linux-star64
• Reference Installation Document: https://github.com/yogo1212/arch-linux-star64

Hardware Information

• Pine64 Star64
• A microSD card
• DC 12V5A Barrel power adapter
• A USB to UART Debugger (e.g., CH340, CH341, FT2232, etc.)
• Three Dupont wires

Installation Steps

Building and Flashing the Image

Pull repository, build and flash the image (e.g. under an existing Arch Linux install):

git clone https://github.com/yogo1212/arch-linux-star64.git
cd arch-linux-star64
mkdir build
make
dd if=./build/star64.img of=/dev/your/device bs=1M status=progress
# or:
# make DEV_OR_IMG=/dev/your/device

Logging into the System

Connect to the development board via the serial port.

Expected Results

The system boots up normally, and information can be viewed through the onboard serial port.

Actual Results

Image fails to boot with Boot failed (err=-14).

Boot Log

U-Boot 2025.07-rc2-00085-g92da174fc636 (May 26 2025 - 16:02:32 +0800)

CPU:   sifive,u74-mc
Model: Pine64 Star64
DRAM:  8 GiB
Core:  160 devices, 29 uclasses, devicetree: board
WDT:   Not starting watchdog@13070000
MMC:   mmc@16010000: 0, mmc@16020000: 1
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected gd25lq128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB
OK
StarFive EEPROM format v2

--------EEPROM INFO--------
Vendor : PINE64
Product full SN: STAR64V1-2310-D008E000-00000005
data version: 0x2
PCB revision: 0xc1
BOM revision: A
Ethernet MAC0 address: 6c:cf:39:00:75:61
Ethernet MAC1 address: 6c:cf:39:00:75:62
--------EEPROM INFO--------

starfive_7110_pcie pcie@9c0000000: Starfive PCIe bus probed.
In:    serial@10000000
Out:   serial@10000000
Err:   serial@10000000
Net:   eth0: ethernet@16030000, eth1: ethernet@16040000
starting USB...
Register 2000820 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
Bus usb@0: 4 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Working FDT set to ff71a300
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
Cannot persist EFI variables without system partition
** Booting bootflow '<NULL>' with efi_mgr
Loading Boot0000 'mmc 1' failed
EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image
Boot failed (err=-14)
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
ethernet@16030000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete....

Test Criteria

Successful: The actual result matches the expected result.

Failed: The actual result does not match the expected result.

Test Conclusion

Test failed.