[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Phong Vo pvo at apm.com
Tue Feb 23 11:58:22 UTC 2016


I see that CentOS installer somehow does not detect network, so it gives
text-based installation.
However, once installation is finished, check your
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(or something similar).

Make sure
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=y

Change ONBOOT to y and reboot should get network working.

-Phong

-----Original Message-----
From: arm-dev-bounces at centos.org [mailto:arm-dev-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Gordan Bobic
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:54 PM
To: Conversations around CentOS on ARM hardware
Subject: Re: [Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

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
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