Prepare SD card
ArchLinux ARM ARMv8 Generic instruction
Partitioning
You will need two partition on SD card: one for Horizon OS(p1) and another for Linux(p2).
use your favorite partitioning tool to make two partition on card. (you have to set size approprietary)
Formatting
Format your SD card's first partition with vfat and second one with ext4
RootFS installation
Download this GNOME rootfs image [https://0w0.st/gnome__rootfs.tar.bz2]
and untar it using bsdtar -xpf ArchLinuxARM-aarch64-latest.tar.gz -C mountpoint
Firmware installation
Use NX-FWExtract to extract Broadcom FW blob from your Switch system image
and copy it into /lib/firmware/brcm of your sd card Linux rootfs
Build and load Nintendo Switch Linux with exploit
How to run without Docker (Deprecated)
Run this scripts in order. You may have to handle your platform-specific errors. YMMV.
- clone.sh
- toolchain.sh
- build.sh
- u-boot-scr.sh
- load.sh
How to run with docker
Building Docker image and Enter to Docker
Run this
sudo ./docker_run.sh
Building stuffs
Run this scripts in order. It should be run WITHOUT any errors
./clone.sh./toolchain.sh./build.sh./u-boot-scr.sh./artifact.sh
Escape from Docker
Run this
exit
Module installation
Mount rootfs on SD card and put your modules located in docker-artifact/modules into /lib/modules/
Loading Linux via RCM
First, put your switch into RCM mode and run following command
./load-docker.sh
Module dependency generation
After you boot into Linux on Switch, you should run sudo depmod to generate module dependency
Cheat mode -- use precompiled blob
Download and extract blob
Run this command
./get_precompiled_blob.sh
This will check signature of tarball and extract artifacts into docker-result directory
Loading Linux via RCM
First, put your switch into RCM mode and run following command
./load-docker.sh