On 2016-02-23 11:47, Michael Howard wrote:
On 22/02/2016 20:08, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2016-02-22 17:29, Michael Howard wrote:
On 22/02/2016 17:04, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On 2016-02-22 16:57, Michael Howard wrote:
On 22/02/2016 16:47, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Anyway, the install does in fact succeed, which is great. I > probably > should have stuck with the LVM partitioning scheme but hey ho, I > can > re run things now that I know UEFI is working. > > So, I have a minimal CentOS install with 4.2.0-0.21.el7.aarch64 > kernel. Great start, thanks to all. > > There is no networking so I need to get the installer to > recognise the > nics at install time.
So installer produces a bootable system, complete with a working kernel?
Yes, and no. It produces a bootable kernel.
Right, but how does that kernel get booted? u-boot -> kernel ? u-boot -> UEFI -> kernel ? u-boot -> UEFI -> grub2 -> kernel ?
Does it use grub2 or does it do some magic to boot the kernel straight from UEFI?
I haven't had the nerve to attempt to bun UEFI to SPI-NOR permanently,
Oh, I wasn't suggesting that. I cannot think of a good reason to burn UEFI into SPI-NOR vs. chain-loading it from u-boot, since the boot cascade is automatable.
so following the install (and any subsequent ones) I've loaded it from u-boot manually and then booted directly from UEFI from there. I can of course automate that I suppose.
Right, so post-install the boot process is: u-boot -> UEFI -> kernel ?
Yes.
Sweet! Now I just have to try to scrape together enough to get me one of those cometh pay day. :-D
No grub2 involved?
No.
I'll see if I can do something about that when mine arrives. It would be nice to have it working the same way x86 UEFI works.
With my pre-occupation with having no networking, I gave you some bum info.
Oh... No NIC driver? Or something else missing?
Grub2 is indeed involved.
Oh, awesome, so it works just like x86 UEFI, then. That is excellent news indeed. :)
Many thanks.
Gordan