Hi, Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote (Sat, 17 Aug 2024 12:55:41 +0200): > Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:47:22 +0200 > From: "Diederik de Haas" <didi.deb...@cknow.org> > To: "Pascal Hambourg" <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org>, <1076...@bugs.debian.org>, > "Philip Hands" <p...@hands.com>, "Holger Wansing" <hwans...@mailbox.org> > Cc: José Ángel Pastrana <japp.deb...@gmail.com>, "Vagrant Cascadian" > <vagr...@debian.org> > Subject: Re: Bug#1076952: [RFD] partman-auto: Update guided partitioning size > limits for current and future needs > > > On Fri Aug 9, 2024 at 10:08 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Guided partitioning with LVM already provides a feature to reserve space > > in the VG. Maybe it could be extended to guided partitioning with plain > > partitions. > > I'm not 100% sure if this fits into this subject/discussion, but ... > > On ARM devices it would be very useful if the first 16MB would be > (automatically) reserved. > The U-Boot bootloader is normally put in the first part of the boot > device and for Rockchip based devices that can extend to the 16MB > 'mark'. AFAIK bootloaders for other SoCs are before that. > > If you use the current recipes you end up with an unbootable system as > the U-Boot bootloader get overwritten with the / (root) partition and > the data on it. > There should be a bug for it, but I didn't manage to find it. > > Right now, the instruction is to choose manual partitioning and create > a 16MB partition ([1] says 32MB, but it should be 16MB [2]) and then the > normal partitions and after that you could remove that partition again. > And if you type in 16MB, then you need to 'hope' that it is actually > 16MB and not something (a bit) smaller. > I like to think that I'm more advanced then most users and I found it > quite difficult to do. > > So it would be very helpful if the recipe(s) for ARM devices would > reserve the first 16MB automatically with plain partitioning. > > [1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCK64_Software_Releases#Debian > [2] https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Partitions
This is now included in testing. @Diederik: could you test, if it works for you now? Or anyone else, who has the possibility/the hardware for this? Thanks Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
