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Does anyone know how easy it is to install other distributions, e.g. CentOS with the Asahi kernel?

I was wondering the same, from the installation docs [1]:

> UEFI environment only (m1n1 + U-Boot + ESP) No distribution, just a minimal UEFI boot environment. With this, you can boot an OS installer from a USB drive and install whatever you want (as long as it supports these machines, of course)!

So if the distribution has an arm image then it should work from a usb boot, I’m going to test drive with voidlinux this weekend.

1: https://asahilinux.org/2022/03/asahi-linux-alpha-release/

It looks like void only provides arm roots images, not efi installer images https://voidlinux.org/download/

I have the same problem when installing arm64 distos with esxi arm edition. FYI have had success with Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse and even Windows11 aarch64 UEFI isos

Debian install worked fine for me, even if it was my first linux install on hardware in many years.

There are notes on Fedora install at https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Fedora

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