Fedora and issues while flashing

[kintarowonders]

I am trying to get the script running on Fedora. I removed all those 'apt' related lines of code at the start, and installed the dependencies. I installed the following Fedora packages with dnf...

dnf install curl wget git android-tools uboot-tools sunxi-tools

I ran the script as root without sudo, and it almost worked, here is the output...

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 Welcome to the C.H.I.P Flasher Tool 
 Please enter your wanted flavour 
 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
 enter p for pocketchip Image 
 enter s for the headless Server Image 
 enter g for the Desktop Image 
 enter b for the Buildroot Image 
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 IMPORTANT INFO 
 If u suffer from Power Problems add a n 
 to your choice of flavour 
 Example: gn for the No-Limit Desktop Image 
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 Other options 
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 enter f for Force Clean 
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 Then press enter please 
pn

 Adding udev rule for Allwinner device
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1f3a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="efe8", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660" SYMLINK+="usb-chip"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1010", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660" SYMLINK+="usb-chip-fastboot"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1f3a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1010", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660" SYMLINK+="usb-chip-fastboot"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="067b", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2303", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660" SYMLINK+="usb-serial-adapter"


 Installing CHIP-tools
warning: Pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent branches is
discouraged. You can squelch this message by running one of the following
commands sometime before your next pull:

  git config pull.rebase false  # merge (the default strategy)
  git config pull.rebase true   # rebase
  git config pull.ff only       # fast-forward only

You can replace "git config" with "git config --global" to set a default
preference for all repositories. You can also pass --rebase, --no-rebase,
or --ff-only on the command line to override the configured default per
invocation.

Already up to date.
== Pocketchip selected ==
== No Limit mode ==
== preparing images ==
== Local/cached probe files located ==
== Staging for NAND probe ==
Image Name:   detect NAND
Created:      Wed Feb  3 20:54:19 2021
Image Type:   ARM Linux Script (uncompressed)
Data Size:    97 Bytes = 0.09 KiB = 0.00 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point:  00000000
Contents:
   Image 0: 89 Bytes = 0.09 KiB = 0.00 MiB
waiting for fel......OK
waiting for fel.....OK
NAND detected:
nand_erasesize=400000
nand_oobsize=500
nand_writesize=4000
== Cached UBI located ==
Image Name:   flash pocketchip
Created:      Wed Feb  3 20:54:31 2021
Image Type:   ARM Linux Script (uncompressed)
Data Size:    2288 Bytes = 2.23 KiB = 0.00 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point:  00000000
Contents:
   Image 0: 2280 Bytes = 2.23 KiB = 0.00 MiB
waiting for fel...OK
waiting for fastboot...fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'
.TIMEOUT
failed to flash the UBI image

 FLASH VERIFICATION FAILED.


        TROUBLESHOOTING:

        Is the FEL pin connected to GND?
        Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?
        Did you run the setup script in CHIP-SDK?
        Download could be corrupt, it can be re-downloaded by adding the '-f' flag.

It is clearly having trouble with running fastboot which led to a timeout of some kind.

[ReubenBTalbott]

Did I you make sure to install an older version of sunix tools?

[thcipriani]

.fastboot: invalid option -- 'i'

fastboot seems to have removed the -i option at some point.

See: https://github.com/Thore-Krug/Install-Flash-Chip-Mac/issues/5#issuecomment-501552414

Installing an older version of platform-tools directly from android seems to do the trick for me. If you run fastboot -h and don't see an -i <vendor id> Specify a custom USB vendor id. option, then that's your problem.

[JuanjoSalvador]

I've got the same issue. My solution was install an older version of platform-tools (Debian has the v29, and the one that worked for me was the v26).

I've installed it from here.