[Macchiato] First boot

[Marcin Wojtas]

Hi!

2018-01-16 23:47 GMT+01:00 Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>:
> 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.
>

Yes, indeed it's been stalled:/ We're not so far from having McBin in
the mainline edk2-platforms, but it's gated by a couple of components
that require rework, comparing to marvell-armada-wip branch. I will
relaunch upstream process early February, latest.

Best regards,
Marcin