Re: Question about Guix on Novena - mainly U-Boot

2020-12-05 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 19:49:37 +0100 Danny Milosavljevic wrote:> > Now I want to make it boot it from SATA instead. The question is what "boot from SATA" means here, it could mean different things: - Have u-boot on the microSD card and load the rootfs from the SATA HDD/SSD. - Make the bootrom load

Question about Guix on Novena - mainly U-Boot

2020-12-04 Thread Stefan
Hi Danny! You may want to try to set "CONFIG_PREBOOT=\"usb start; sata init; part list sata 0 -bootable devplist\"". I do something similar to execute "dhcp" to enable booting via tftp. Maybe take a look at my recent patch¹ as well, which aims to ease such configuration changes. Bye Stefan

Re: Question about Guix on Novena - mainly U-Boot

2020-12-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
For reference, the config.scm I used was: (use-modules (gnu) (gnu bootloader u-boot)) (use-service-modules networking ssh desktop) (use-package-modules bootloaders screen ssh linux) ;;; Note: Maybe better: linux-libre-arm-generic ;;; Note: Novena upstream uses Kernel 3.19 (operating-system (host

Question about Guix on Novena - mainly U-Boot

2020-12-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, I'm still in the process of setting up the Novena as a GNU Mes for ARM build machine. Guix system on Novena from sd card finally works. Now I want to make it boot it from SATA instead. So I did the following: (1) Used cp -a to copy over everything from the sd card / to the sata drive parti