There is current no support for the NanoPi R2S in ArchLinuxArm, but it's possible to run it using the generic aarch64 installation.
- Copy bootloader and uBoot from an armbian image using for the NanoPi R2S using
dd
(sectors 32 to 32767) everything before the partition, except the partition table). - Create an ext4 partition on
/dev/mmcblk0p1
at offset of 32768 sectors (16384 KiB):
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type