Hello Jonathan,
first of all thank you for the effort here, it's important for us to get this right. Jonathan Frederickson <[email protected]> writes: > Rutherther <[email protected]> writes: >> No worries. In the mean time I prepared this >> <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/5320>, so would be good if >> you >> could try it with an SDcard as well, if you will have some >> spare. (there >> is a url to download image as well) > > So, I haven't yet had a chance to attempt booting directly off the > SD card for now, but (after acquainting myself with some of the > peculiarities of this machine) I was able to get it to start to > boot off USB. > > I haven't yet been able to get to the installer, though. I've > attached a screenshot of where the boot process stops (both with > the original aarch64 image and the updated one from > pulls/5320). I'm a bit unsure since there were a few kernel > messages afterwards, but it might still just be waiting for > entropy? I'll leave it running overnight and see if it makes any > progress just in case. > > Of note, this has all been done via the serial console thus > far. This board does not have a built-in display output, and while > I have an Nvidia card installed it does not currently appear to > work. Like I said, this is my first time actually using this > machine since I got it. :) In my initial message I said that the AArch64 artifacts are working only with displays so far. Exactly this is the reason. The problem is very simple, it's just that agetty/mingetty is not started on the console. Other than that you're as far in the boot process as it gets. It's just that the installers starts on tty1 and other terminals are on tty2, 3... So you would see them only on a display. So I already prepared a way to start it on headless machines consoles: <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/5346>. I will publish a pre built image later today, with both the fixes I mentioned in the thread. So the resulting image should be able to boot on headless setups and also from an SD card. (plus hopefully on newer hardware that Ian Eure has, like ThinkPad Snapdragon Gen 6) Rutherther > > x
