Installing Fedora

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I am trying to install fedora from the baremetal appliance store. I am however seeing an error…

Using manipulator script: /tmp/manipulator-script.lua
lua: [string “/tmp/manipulator-script.lua”]:11: ERROR: A newer recovery firmware is required, please see https://archive.traverse.com.au
stack traceback:
[C]: in function ‘error’
[string “/tmp/manipulator-script.lua”]:11: in function ‘do_manipulate’
/usr/sbin/run-manipulate:58: in main chunk
[C]: ?

I have however installed the latest recovery image I could find (which is however a year old…)

After installing fedora this way the system no longer boots from EFI, so the manipulator script appears not to have done what is was supposed to do…

Did I miss something?

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You haven’t missed anything, I forgot to push my updates.

This version will work with Fedora 37. F37 moved to a new btrfs-based partition layout so some updates were required to deal with it.

https://archive.traverse.com.au/pub/traverse/ls1088firmware/recovery/branches/master/827157362/

Procedure: Download recovery.itb and use the mtd tool to flash from Recovery or OpenWrt-NAND

mtd erase recovery && mtd write recovery.itb recovery
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Thanks. This worked.

Note the Fedora by default puts SWAP on zram, so the swap partition that the manipulator creates is not used, and enabling it fails. I just removed the entry from /etc/fstab

Then I updated, and I am now on kernel 6.2
Any advantages that having this recent kernel brings?