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.

1. clone.sh
2. toolchain.sh
3. build.sh
4. u-boot-scr.sh
5. 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

1. ./clone.sh
2. ./toolchain.sh
3. ./build.sh
4. ./u-boot-scr.sh
5. ./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

License

CC0