[Arm-dev] Grub not updating boot configs

[Mike Calderwood]

Ah, I knew there was some aspect of this I was missing, and now it's all 
much clearer.  Thanks for the info, guys!

Mike

On 6/27/2017 9:04 AM, Uli Middelberg wrote:
> Am 26.06.2017 um 20:31 schrieb Jim Perrin:
>> The pine64 doesn't support UEFI so you won't have /boot/efi/EFI. The
>> 3.10 kernel is a vendor kernel not supplied by CentOS. Effectively only
>> the userland tools are updated via yum, and grub will have little to no
>> effect as you're not booting in the 'normal' way.
> Hello Mike,
>
> as Jim already wrote, none of the CentOS updates will change the kernel nor the firmware on the Pine64.
>
> If you are looking for a recent kernel (4.9 or later), you will have to update the Pine64 firmware,
> since the stock firmware cannot boot a mainline kernel and a mainline u-boot firmware won't
> boot a legacy kernel.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1. You download the latest experimental Pine64 Armbian Image [1] as a foundation to build CentOS upon [2].
>
> 2. You build CentOS from scratch on the Pine64 [3] (or any other ARM64 board), if you have a card reader or a free
> SDcard slot.
>
>
> [1] https://dl.armbian.com/pine64/nightly/Armbian_5.27.170614_Pine64_Ubuntu_xenial_dev_4.11.1.7z
> [2] https://github.com/umiddelb/aarch64/wiki/Install-CentOS-7-on-your-favourite-ARMv8-ARM64-AArch64-board
> [3] https://github.com/umiddelb/z2d/tree/master/pine64
>
> Cheers
> Uli
>
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