linuxswitch-en.md

Running Linux on the Xiaomi Pad 5

← Dualbooting using switch2linux

Prerequisites

• Brain

• Rooted android

• Already installed Linux

• mklonimg.cmd (Windows)

• mklonimg.sh (Linux/macOS)

• Python 3

• linux-nabu zip package

Creating boot image

1. Restore your boot image (can be skipped if you used lon-tool with the -Q flag)

2. Download mklonimg.cmd for Windows or mklonimg.sh for Linux/macOS

3. Install Python (for Windows select Add Python 3.x to PATH)

4. Download linux-nabu zip package for your image version

5. Extract vmlinuz-6.1.10-nabu and dtb-6.1.10-nabu from /boot/efi inside zip

6. Open cmd (on Windows) or terminal (on Linux/macOS)

7. Run mklonimg

Windows

.\mklonimg.cmd path\to\vmlinuz path\to\dtb

Linux/macOS

bash mklonimg.sh path/to/vmlinuz path/to/dtb

8. Image will be created in current working directory with name linux.boot.img

9. Follow switch2linux install guide -> link

Done!