[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Tue Feb 23 11:53:35 UTC 2016
Gordan Bobic <gordan at redsleeve.org>

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