[Macchiato] First boot

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 09:59:58PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>On 16 January 2018 at 21:53, Stuart Monteith <stoo at stoo.me.uk> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>   I thought I’d share my findings so far with my revision 1.3 MacchiatoBIN.
>>
>> I’ve put uEFI onto an SD card, and configured the jumpers appropriately. I’ve used Leif’s flash-image-17.10.bin
>>
>> I found the daily netinst isos hung early on during booting.
>>
>> I put onto a USB stick a Debian mini.iso image from 2018-01-15:
>>    https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/daily/netboot/mini.iso
>>
>> and then booted into that, using the front USB2 socket and the 1GB ethernet socket.
>> It installed successfully onto a 120GB WD SSD connected to one of the SATA ports.
>
>Excellent!
>
>> When rebooting, I get to an EFI prompt. To boot, I type:
>>    fs0:\EFI\debian\aa64grub.efi
>
>If you add that exact line to a file called 'startup.nsh' in fs0:\, it
>should run it automatically for you.

There's also support in Debian for (persistently) copying Grub to the
removable media path. Run

# dpkg-reconfigure -p low grub-efi-arm64

to access it.

>Apparently, Leif's image does not have persistent variable support yet
>- support for that has been contributed in the mean time.

Aha! Time to try a new build then, I guess... :-)

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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