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Re: Error booting aarch64 installation image
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Efraim Flashner |
Subject: |
Re: Error booting aarch64 installation image |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Feb 2023 12:56:23 +0200 |
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 10:06:41AM +0200, Max Brieiev wrote:
> Hi Roman,
>
> Roman Scherer <roman.scherer@burningswell.com> writes:
>
> > I think you need to use --image-type=efi-raw for this to work.
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't build and produces yet another errors.
>
> > I actually installed my Guix system from another distro. I roughly
> > followed this guide here:
> >
> > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-on-an-arm-board/
>
> Thank you! I spent all day yesterday playing with this idea.
>
> And it actually works. For me the steps were like this:
>
> 1. Launch Debian ARM image.
> 2. Install Guix on it as package manager
> 3. Attach an empty qcow image as a storage device (/dev/vdb for me)
> 4. Partition and format /dev/vdb
> 5. Mount root and boot efi partitions.
> 6. Edit file-system entries in lightweight-desktop.scm and save it as
> /mnt/etc/config.scm
> 7. Run:
> guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt
> 8. Reboot
>
> And this works!
>
> Now I've just discovered in guix-cookbook that there is a special
> linux-libre-arm64-generic kernel for ARM boards and that u-boot is
> usually used to boot them.
>
> But in my case it works with grub and a default kernel.
>
> Are there any advantages of switching to linux-libre-arm64-generic
> kernel?
>
I believe it mostly comes down to kernel configs. The regular
linux-libre arm64 kernel uses the Guix kernel config. The
linux-libre-arm64-generic build uses the upstream defaults instead of a
configuration file.
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Re: Building arm64 guix system image, Efraim Flashner, 2023/02/19
Re: Building arm64 guix system image, Roman Scherer, 2023/02/23