Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:07:00 +0200
From: Christophe Jarry <cjarry@cjarry.org>
To: Shivank Sharma <shivanksharma2376543@gmail.com>
Cc: ~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Trying to install Alpine on a Loongson 3A5000 mini PC
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Hi Shivank,

Note: i used dd to put alpine iso on my USB key (not Ventoy).

I plugged my USB key, pressed the "power on" button and hit F2 to go
into the UEFI BIOS. Then chose "Boot Maintenance Manager" -> "Add Boot
Options". There i chose the following item:

NO FILE SYSTEM INFO,
[PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xA,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/USB(0x0,0x0)]

Then "<efi>" -> "<boot>" -> "bootloongarch64.efi"

In "Input the description", i wrote "Alpine bootloongarch64.efi",
selected "Commit Changes and Exit", hit "Esc" 3 times to go back to the
main menu of UEFI BIOS. Then "Save & Exit" -> "Save Changes and Reset"
-> "Save Configuration and reset? [Yes]".

Machine reboots and i hit F12. In the "Please select boot device" menu,
i choose "Alpine bootloongarch64.efi" then the sole grub item "Linux
lts".

I then get the following lines on my screen:

lpc: Failed to get LPC status
eiointc: Error: invalid nodemap!
eiointc: Error: invalid nodemap!
eiointc: Error: invalid nodemap!

Regards,
Christophe