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Re: cannot boot from microSD card on aarch64 machine
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Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
Re: cannot boot from microSD card on aarch64 machine |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Mar 2022 00:49:27 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Ricardo,
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
>>> I mounted the target disk (an SSD) at /mnt, made sure that the microSD
>>> card was inserted, unmounted, and available at /dev/mmcblk1, and then
>>> ran
>>>
>>> guix system init config.scm /mnt
>>>
>>> This was successful.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, rebooting failed. There is seemingly no activity at all
>>> when I power on the board, so something’s not right with how u-boot was
>>> installed on the microSD card.
>>>
>>> Does it perhaps install the u-boot files at the wrong offsets? How
>>> would I begin to debug this?
>>>
>>> I’d appreciate any hints.
>>
>> Sorry, I don't have any clue to offer, but were you able to solve or
>> workaround your problem?
>
> Not quite, but I’ve learned more and understand the problem better.
>
> I manually copied the two u-boot files to the expected offsets on the
> microsd card, and that let me boot Guix System from USB. But I have so
> far been unsuccessful in my attempts to do this automatically as part of
> “guix system init” (I haven’t tried this much) or to successfully patch
> u-boot to boot from the SSD on the PCIe card (I have tried this a
> lot).
Heh, sounds tricky.
> My next step is to attempt to install the whole system onto the microsd
> card, just to end up with a usable system. If that works then nothing
> is wrong with Guix (except for a lack of documentation), but it would be
> a disappointing workaround.
>
> I think it should be possible to patch u-boot to initialize the PCIe
> card and boot from the attached disk (with the patched u-boot residing
> on the microsd card). I tried the relevant subset of the netbsd
> patches, but the CPU keeps resetting after (successfully) enumerating
> the PCI devices.
If I recall from my limited experience with an embedded ARM, you'd have
to register the newly supported hardware in the device tree of
U-Boot/the kernel; do the patches applied take care of that?
> I hope I can make some more time for this soon and overcome that last
> hurdle — and then write a cookbook entry for all this :)
I wish you luck!
Cheers,
Maxim