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Failed boot on arm32 with u-boot due to missing requirements with the distro boot protocol

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 45517 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45517: Failed boot on arm32 with u-boot due to missing
 requirements with the distro boot protocol
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:35:48 +0100

Hello Denis,

> I then built it with:
>> cp `guix system disk-image --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf lime2.scm` \
>>     guix.img
>
> However when booting the image, u-boot doesn't find
> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf.
>
> However running the following command in u-boot makes the board boot:
>> sysboot mmc 0:2 any $scriptaddr /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
>
> When we look at the resulting image with fdisk -l we have:
>> Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
>> guix.img1        2048   83967   81920   40M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
>> guix.img2       83968 3301783 3217816  1.5G 83 Linux

The default image type creates an EFI partition which is not desirable
here. You should try again running this instead:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix system disk-image -t arm32-raw lime2.scm
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks,

Mathieu

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