On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 11:35 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > On 4/25/2017 7:24 AM, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > On Sun, 2017-04-23 at 16:07 -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm updating my hardware to the most recent Intel-based platform (ASUS > > > Z270 MB, i7 7700K, memory). > > > > > > I want to play around with LFS systemd development. Are there any issues > > > with this new hardware and LFS? How about UEFI Bios? > > > . . . > > Hi Wayne, > > > Well, what a coincidence . I've just bought my new system about a week ago. > > (I've been putting it off for the past few years) > > It's an ASUS PRIME Z270-P MB, i7 7700k, 32GB memory, including a M.2 250GB > > SSD (Sumsung). > > The reason I picked the ASUS PRIME Z270-P was that it seemed to be the only > > Z270 MB > > locally available that didn't have some untried audio or network HW devices. > > I'm getting the ASUS TUF Z270 Mark I. Nearly the same features as the > Prime, but a little fancier. Also 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3333MHz memory > (2 16GB sticks; $230 via Amazon Prime). > > At first I'll use no SSD, but two existing hard disks (one for Fedora, > the other for LFS) to simplify my life. > > > It's has been almost a week for me to get this up and running under B/LFS > > systemd. > > There were a few unexpected hurdles (e.g. not enabling USB 3.0 in the > > kernel) but I've > > managed to over come all of them. > > I had a similar experience last time I tried this 2 1/2 years ago. But I > had so much trouble with booting on a UEFI system that I lost interest > until now. > After a bit of experience now, I don't think it is as bad as people have made out it to be. UEFI to me is straight forward. BTW, I have CSM disabled. Here's an article on this. http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/csm-good-bad-ugly.html
> > As Bruce mentioned, disable the secure boot which meant I had to remove the > > PK key. (Not sure how Windows will cope) > > At some stage I'll look at enabling this with my own private keys. (I've > > successfully managed to this under a VM.) > > So you're trying to dual boot with Windows? Absolutely not! The last Windows OS I had install on any of my PCs at home was Windows 2000. I was all Linux prior to whenever Windows XP came out, however long ago that was. The above Windows comment was directed at you if you where planing to dual boot. By creating my own key chain, I mean to remove the Microsoft key(s). Here's a great article about how to do it: http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/controlling-sb.html Regards, Wayne. > > > At this stage I have no complaints. Everything is running as expect. > > > > Some extra options I had to set: > > > > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y > > CONFIG_DRM_I915=m > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_HDMI=m > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=m > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_GENERIC=m > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m > > CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m > > CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y > > CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX=y (required for gcc tests to pass) > > > > One more thing, I originally had all of the above set to y, but found that > > I had > > to set some to m to get rid of various errors/warnings in the boot log. > > I suppose I'll be getting into these details soon enough. > > I won't have a graphics card but will use the MB graphics. > > Why this line? > > CONFIG_X86_INTEL_MPX=y (required for gcc tests to pass) Without this being set, the 6.17 gcc mpx tests will fail. I didn't have these failures on the old system, by on this new system, they were failing. > > > I also installed the following firmware: > > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_14.bin > > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_huc_ver02_00_1810.bin > > /lib/firmware/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin > > /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168h-2.fw > > What is that? > firmware blobs needed for certain functionally to be enabled within the Intel HD Graphic drivers. What functionally? I do not know. Here's a random link that might explain more https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware > Alan > Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
