UEFI-b09-refresh

arch-installer: full system upgrade before video and graphics

perform full system upgrade before video and graphics to reduce chance of library version conflict issues

b09-refresh

Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2025-12-25

Release Notes (b09):
✅New Images (UEFI): Asahi (Apple Silicon)
✅New Images (UEFI): FydeTab Duo
✅New Images (UEFI): Radxa Rock 5B Plus
✅New Images (UEFI): NanoPC CM3588
✅New Images (UEFI): (Generic) VM Images (qcow2/vmdk)
✅New Images: Radxa Rock 3 Series
✅Radxa Zero 3 Image Fixes (Improved Support)
✅(UEFI) Updated EDK2-RK3588 firmware to v1.0 (defaults to Joshua 6.1 DTB)
✅(UEFI) ESP partition support
✅(UEFI) Support passing grub cmdline
✅Desktop Environment: Fixed and improved Hyprland
✅Desktop Environment: Added Phosh (Gnome based Mobile Shell)
✅Introducing get-installer : a script that automatically detect and download latest prebuilt images (or just the installer)
✅ Advanced Options: Install to another Disk
✅ Manage Mirror Setup Menu - determines server/mirror options to improve reliability when downloading packages
✅ The misc repository : provides fixed, improved & missing packages, including precompiled AUR packages
❌Known Issue: Radxa CM5 (and possibly Rock 5C) UEFI may not boot, use non-UEFI images instead
✅ Installer minor improvements, typos and bug fixes

UEFI Images here!

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa

• Arch Linux for Rock 5 radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [rock 5] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi

• Orange Pi Discord
• Orange Pi Reddit

Community resources for FydeTab Duo

• FydeOS Discord

More resources / info to be contributed, open a discussion if you want to provide them.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.

b09

Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2025-05-21

Release Notes (b09):
✅New Images (UEFI): Asahi (Apple Silicon)
✅New Images (UEFI): FydeTab Duo
✅New Images (UEFI): Radxa Rock 5B Plus
✅New Images (UEFI): NanoPC CM3588
✅New Images (UEFI): (Generic) VM Images (qcow2/vmdk)
✅New Images: Radxa Rock 3 Series
✅Radxa Zero 3 Image Fixes (Improved Support)
✅(UEFI) Updated EDK2-RK3588 firmware to v1.0 (defaults to Joshua 6.1 DTB)
✅(UEFI) ESP partition support
✅(UEFI) Support passing grub cmdline
✅Desktop Environment: Fixed and improved Hyprland
✅Desktop Environment: Added Phosh (Gnome based Mobile Shell)
✅Introducing get-installer : a script that automatically detect and download latest prebuilt images (or just the installer)
✅ Advanced Options: Install to another Disk
✅ Manage Mirror Setup Menu - determines server/mirror options to improve reliability when downloading packages
✅ The misc repository : provides fixed, improved & missing packages, including precompiled AUR packages
❌Known Issue: Radxa CM5 (and possibly Rock 5C) UEFI may not boot, use non-UEFI images instead
✅ Installer minor improvements, typos and bug fixes

UEFI Images here!

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa

• Arch Linux for Rock 5 radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [rock 5] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi

• Orange Pi Discord
• Orange Pi Reddit

Community resources for FydeTab Duo

• FydeOS Discord

More resources / info to be contributed, open a discussion if you want to provide them.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.

UEFI-b09

UEFI Build - Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2025-05-21

non-UEFI Images / More info here!

Where can I get an ISO?

There isn't any ISO available now as the installer is designed to install within the same disk, which assumes the partitioning and bootloader are ready for use. However, you can flash the generic .img image to the disk, which should boot on any supported generic UEFI system.

For VM, we have provided .qcow2and .vmdk images, which can be imported to VM software such as VirtualBox, VMWare, UTM, and QEMU.

For Parallels, you may convert the .vmdk image to .hdd for Parallels using the Parallels CLI tool with the following command:

prl_convert <path_to_vmdk_file>

Notes for RK3588 Platform

• These images can be flashed to your SD Card / eMMC just like any other non-UEFI images for rk3588 SBCs, as they have already included the UEFI-EDK2 firmware.
• For NVMe, you will still need to flash the edk2-rk3588 firmware to your SBCs (either on SPI Flash, SD Card, or eMMC)
• Press ESC or F2 on first boot to ensure that in Device Manager -> Rockchip Platform Configuration -> ACPI / Device Tree:
  • Config Table Mode is set to Both or Device Tree
  • Compatibility Mode is set to Vendor instead of Mainline
  • Support DTB override & overlays is set to Enabled
  • (Press F10 then Y to Save)

b08

Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2024-08-20

Release Notes (b08) :

• Improve Installer Theme Colors and UI
• Significant Installer Performance Improvement (Optimization @ ACU 0.1.5-dev)
• (New) Network Options Menu
• (New) Advanced Options Menu
• (New) Check for Updates Menu
• Kernel Options: Fix (Recommended) tag not showing
• Rewrite Post Install logic to package per feature instead of per device model
• Rockchip: Bump base kernel to Joshua's BSP6.1-rkr3
• Rockchip: New Images: (Testing) ArmSoM
• Fix config not updated via OTA Updates
• (Experimental) UEFI Images

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa Rock 5

• Arch Linux radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [NEW] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas Edge 2

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi 5 Series

• Links and info to be contributed, open a discussion.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.

UEFI-b08

Experimental Build - Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2024-08-20

Special Notes for Generic UEFI

• linux-aarch64 use Image/Image.gz instead of vmlinuz-linux which is incompatible with the standard grub package
• Solution / Workaround:
  • Option 1:
    Run this command on every kernel install/updates:
    sudo mv /boot/Image /boot/vmlinuz-linux
  • Option 2:
    Use a modified grub package

Where can I get an ISO?

There isn't any ISO available now as the installer is designed to perform installation within the same disk, which assumes partitioning and bootloader are ready for use.

You can flash the generic .img image to the disk, which should boot on any generic UEFI system.
For VM, we have provided .qcow2, .vmdk, and .hdd images, which can be imported to VM software such as VirtualBox, VMWare, Parallels, UTM, and QEMU.

Special Notes for RK3588 SBCs

• All rk3588 images already included the UEFI-EDK2 firmware
• Requires switching to either Device Tree or BOTH Mode (ACPI Mode will NOT boot) in UEFI EDK2 Menu (BIOS) before booting into the system

b07

Arch Linux ARM (AArch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2024-07-23

Release Notes (b07) :

• Introducing new arch-installer (rewritten new installer with TUI support and plenty of improvements)
• New Images: (Testing) Raspberry Pi (Aarch64)
• New Images: Radxa Rock 5 Series (new varients such as rock 5b plus.5c,5d,itx,cm5,nx5)
• New Images: (Testing) Khadas Edge 1
• New Images: (Testing) NanoPi R6 Series and NanoPC T6
• Post Install: USB2.0 Fix for Orange Pi 5
• Desktop Environment: Fixed and improved Hyprland
• Desktop Environment: Fixed and improved Sway
• Desktop Environment: Fixed XFCE
• Desktop Environment: Added Archcraft
• Kernel: Radxa Rockchip BSP6.1 Kernel
• Kernel: (Experimental) Armbian Mainline Kernel (with patches for RK3588)
• Fixed some bugs
• And more

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa Rock 5

• Arch Linux radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [NEW] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas Edge 2

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi 5 Series

• Links and info to be contributed, open a discussion.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.

b06

Arch Linux ARM (Aarch64) Installer Images

Image (Re)Built on 2024-07-15

Info:

First released on Feb 2024, maintained until July, and is replaced by the introduced of a whole new arch-installer since b07

Release Notes (b06-3) :

• USB 2.0 Fix for OPI5
• Merge everything from b06-dev and removed dev kernel options
• fix desktop environments (librsvg)
• and fixed lots of issues and stuff

Release Notes (b06-2) :

• Updated u-boot
• Updated URLs to adapt to the repository renaming
• Fix dark mode not being functional with Gnome Minimal (Thanks to @erayrafet)
• Improve user account creation

Release Notes (b06-1) :

• Fix language (locale not generated) bug when using suggested language options

Release Notes (b06) :

• Introducing our new LOGO (ASCII Art based) !!!
• Experimental Support for Rockchip 6.1 (Joshua) now available !!!

Known Issues for Edge 2 using Rockchip 6.1 (Joshua): Fan needs to be manually started using i2C

• Split Radxa Rock 5 Series images to rock-5a and rock-5b
• Split Orange Pi 5 Series images to orangepi-5, orangepi-5b, orangepi-5-plus
• Pack u-boot into all images (including Edge 2)
• Added Radxa Zero 3 image
• Removed Deepin as not supported by Arch Linux ARM
• Fix some Desktop Environments
• Removed install additional packages menu (you can access this menu after logging into your desktop by using arch-rock-config install)
• Fixed some other bugs

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa Rock 5

• Arch Linux radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [NEW] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas Edge 2

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi 5 Series

• Links and info to be contributed, open a discussion.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.

Arch Linux Gnome Minimal Image

Arch Linux Gnome Minimal Image

• experimental test image with boogie's panthor BSP 6.1 kernel
• experimental test image with collabora's RK3588 HE kernel
• comes with Gnome 46 (Minimal)
• this is NOT an installer, this is a ready-to-use image

b05

Arch Linux ARM (Aarch64) Installer Images

Image Built on 2024-03-07

Release Notes (b05-5) :
[repo package renaming notice]: Update Linux Kernel Name

(2024-03-07)
7Ji repo currently has a renaming of packages happening, package name may be changed at anytime and may break this installer, if it happens please open a GitHub Issue.

7Ji-PKGBUILDs/.meta#24
7Ji-PKGBUILDs/.meta#25

Release Notes (b05-4) :

• Fix Deepin lightdm not started automatically
• Fix terminal app for Cinnamon
• Improve Sway and LXDE installs

Release Notes (b05-3) :

• Added metadata for Edge2

Release Notes (b05-2) :

• Added iwd and preinstall required basic fonts

Release Notes (b05-1) :

• Fixed bluetooth not running for AP6275P

Release Notes (b05) :

• Added options to choose between different linux kernels
• Installer can now be updated without rebuilding image
• Support more WiFi firmware (rock5 and edge2 images now based on linux-rockchip-joshua-git)
• Speed up installation (by enabling ParallelDownloads for pacman)
• Added Gnome (Minimal)
• Added KDE Plasma (No KDE Apps)
• Fixed Budgie Desktop
• Removed wayland-session for KDE Plasma as it freezes randomly
• Video Acceleration now uses new package ffmpeg-rockchip-git
• New Internet Check Menu
• Fixed some bugs
• Added support for Khadas Edge 2
• Added support for Orange Pi 5 Series (Known Issues with bootloader)

How to install:

Just download the image for your device and flash it (using RPI Imager, balenaEtcher, etc) to your storage device.

Note:

• This Installer Requires Internet Connection.
• Installer will check for updates, it is recommended to accept the update to get the latest installer before proceeding to installation.

Installation details can be found at our wiki.

Resources and alternatives

[NEW] Join our Discord server!

https://discord.gg/jJDcp4qswV

Community resources for Radxa Rock 5

• Arch Linux radxa forum post
• Radxa Discord
• Other distros or images check this page or [NEW] use this repo for rpi-imager

Community resources for Khadas Edge 2

• Arch Linux khadas forum post
• Khadas Discord

Community resources for Orange Pi 5 Series

• Links and info to be contributed, open a discussion.

Other options to get Arch Linux

• Advanced: You can build your own image using our build script. There are different build options. Instructions can be found on our wiki
• Other Arch Linux projects built by the community: Check out BredOS and Arch Linux Installer RK3588 for UEFI.

Help! Something doesn't work!

1. Please first take a look at Known Issues and Troubleshooting to see if that solves the questions you have.
2. You can start a GitHub Discussion or open a Github Issue, make sure to check existing issues to see if your questions have already been resolved before you open an issue.

PRs are welcomed and encouraged.