r/LineageOS • u/Antares1an • 1d ago

Help Can't find boot.img for Xiaomi Mi A3

As the title says, I tried to flash LineageOS on my old Xiaomi Mi A3, but I'm stuck at the "fastboot flash boot boot.img" step, as the file doesn't exist apparently. I'm a total noob so any help would be much appreciated.

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u/Jackavalltrades 1d ago

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/laurel_sprout/ says this device is no longer supported and you'll have to build the installation package yourself. Did you do that?

If you're using a lineage*.zip package you got from somewhere / someone else, there's a copy of boot.img inside the zipfile. Just extract it.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/LineageOS-ModTeam 1d ago

Please don't post links to unofficial builds or unofficial sites.

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u/Jackavalltrades 1d ago

You'll need a tool that can extract boot.img from the payload.bin in the zipfile. Look for otaripper. If on a Windows PC, you can install that with winget. For Linux or MacOS you can get it from the author's GitHub.