[Arm-dev] Gigabyte MP30-AR0

Karanbir Singh kbsingh at centos.org
Thu Mar 10 13:39:54 UTC 2016


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On 09/03/16 21:11, Jeremiah Rothschild wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 02:05:08PM +0000, Michael Howard wrote:
>> On 04/03/2016 11:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:06:08AM +0700, Phong Vo wrote:
>>>> 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_bina
ries.tar.xz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
mp30ar0_tianocore_media.img: burn to SPI NOR if you want to replace U-bo
ot
>>>> permanently
>>> Has anyone tried this step ^^ (replacing u-boot permanently)?
>>> 
>>> I'm not too keen to brick an $800 board.  Is it reversible?
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> No, not tried it, don't see the point of risking it at the mo. 
>> Somebody did brick their board
>> (https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/arm-dev/2016-February/001622.html
)
>>
>> 
and for me, I just chainload tianocore from u-boot via tftp.
> 
> Indeed - that was me! Fun times. I'm all up & running on CentOS 7.2
> now, though, thanks to the help of you fine folks on here.
> 
> One thing I did change was to not boot via TFTP since I'd rather
> not have booting dependent on network availability. Instead I'm
> loading via SD. It was pretty straight forward but, in case anyone
> else is interested, I replaced the load_tianocore variable like so
> (assuming dev 0, part 1):
> 
> setenv load_tianocore 'fatload mmc 0:1 0x82000000
> mp30ar0_tianocore_ubt.fd; fatload mmc 0:1 0x1d000000
> mp30ar0_tianocore_sec_ubt.fd'
> 
> Stoked. Thanks again, guys!

I was wondering if one of you guys might be willing to own/submit a
wiki page article around this board, howto get rolling with CentOS etc ?


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