Asus ROG Ally

Hardware & Compatibility

Install REG Linux

Note

This is an x86_64 device: write the image to a USB stick or microSD card and pick it from the firmware boot menu.

1. Download the image for this device, a reglinux-<target>-<board>-<version>.img.gz file, from the download page. REG Linux is in pre-release: images are not published for every device yet.
2. Write the image to a microSD card with balenaEtcher or Raspberry Pi Imager, or from a Linux shell: check with lsblk which device is the card, then gunzip -c reglinux-*.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M conv=fsync. Writing the image erases the card.
3. Insert the card and power the device on. On the first boot REG Linux grows its data partition to the size of the card, then reboots once.

REG Linux runs from the card and leaves the device's internal storage alone.

Files and settings

The card has two partitions:

Partition	Format	Contents
REGLINUX	FAT	boot files and system-boot.conf
SHARE	ext4, mounted at /userdata	games in /userdata/roms/<system>/, BIOS files in /userdata/bios/, settings in /userdata/system/system.conf

The SHARE partition is also reachable over the network through Samba when the service is enabled.

Notes

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