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