[Macchiato] First boot

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 16 January 2018 at 22:44, Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com> wrote:
> 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... :-)
>

Yeah. I am waiting for Marcin [Wojtas] to contribute the full McBin
support based on the new edk2-platforms tree, but that appears to have
stalled atm.