[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

[Phong Vo]

In theory, you just need to convert CentOS vmlinuz to uImage, then do U-boot
boot using the dtb and
CentOS initrd.img; but somehow it hangs on me. I'll need to dig into it
further.

I am not aware that it was shipped only with U-boot. If you want to try with
UEFI, take it from my dropbox

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20403943/mp30ar0_tianocore_binaries.tar.xz

mp30ar0_tianocore_media.img: burn to SPI NOR if you want to replace U-boot
permanently

But if you want to chain boot from the existing U-boot,
# setenv num_cores 1
# reset

# setenv load_tianocore 'tftp 0x4002000000
${user_dir}/mp30ar0_tianocore_ubt.fd;tftp 0x1d000000
${user_dir}/mp30ar0_tianocore_sec_ubt.fd'
# setenv run_tianocore 'go 0x1d000000'
# run load_tianocore run_tianocore

To install CentOS 7.2, the fastest would be to take
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7.2.1511/isos/aarch64/CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything.iso

and image it on a USB drive ~8GB
  dd if=CentOS-7-aarch64-Everything.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

Insert the USB drive to the board,
+ boot tianocore to prompt
+ select Shell (it should display a list of storage FS0, FS1, FS2, etc. and
note the USB)
+ type FS0: (or FS1: if that does not work)
+ type EFI\BOOT\BOOTAA64.EFI

and this should bring you to the CentOS installer prompt.


-----Original Message-----
From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Gordan Bobic
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 6:12 PM
To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

On 2016-02-19 10:57, Phong Vo wrote:
> Gordan,
>
> There were some quirks with CentOS 7.1, but this should be working
> perfectly
> fine with
> latest CentOS 7.2 aarch64 release.


The board appears to ship with u-boot rather than UEFI firmware. Does
the image work with u-boot?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Gordan Bobic
> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 5:00 PM
> To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
> Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0
>
> These appear to finally be available in UK now:
> https://www.xcase.co.uk/gigabyte-server-boards/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-with-appliedmicror-x-gene1r-processor.html
>
> Unfortunately, things don't work right out of the box:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.redsleeve.org/msg01274.html
>
> Has anyone got CentOS installer working with this board? £600 is an
> awful lot to spend on a paper weight.
>
> Gordan
>
> On 2015-09-22 00:18, Jim Perrin wrote:
>> On 09/16/2015 07:16 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am toying with the idea of getting a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 board
>>> (despite the insanely exorbitant price tag). Has anyone got the
>>> aarch64 CentOS working on one of those? Any special instructions?
>>>
>>> Also, if I get the ISO, is it bootable on aarch64? Does the
>>> installer work? Or does the image have to be used like on 32-bit
>>> ARM?
>>
>>
>> This board is based on the APM xgene, which we've used and tested
>> fairly
>> heavily. It *should* just work out of the box.
>
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