| 1 Aug 2022 |
 Alyssa Ross | and it'll just skip the menu | 10:19:36 |
 dramforever | Hmmm... will try that after I get EFI boot working | 10:20:32 |
| dramforever | config EFI_GENERIC_STUB_INITRD_CMDLINE_LOADER
bool "Enable the command line initrd loader" if !X86
depends on EFI_STUB && (EFI_GENERIC_STUB || X86)
default y if X86
depends on !RISCV
| 10:47:53 |
| dramforever | why | 10:47:54 |
| dramforever | time to find the non-deprecated initrd loading mechanism
help
Select this config option to add support for the initrd= command
line parameter, allowing an initrd that resides on the same volume
as the kernel image to be loaded into memory.
This method is deprecated.
| 11:01:53 |
| dramforever | It's called LINUX_EFI_INITRD_MEDIA_GUID and I have no idea how it's supposed to work | 11:15:50 |
| dramforever | So short answer is no https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/20918#issuecomment-943780719 | 11:19:19 |
|  Andreas Schrägle joined the room. | 14:03:45 |
| Andreas Schrägle | is this the right channel to ask for help with pkgsStatic things? | 14:04:14 |
 j-k | I've asked in #cross-compiling:nixos.org before but this channel might be fine too | 14:33:17 |
| Andreas Schrägle | right. I think I managed to figure it out and make pkgsStatic.openssl_3 build on my own. | 15:46:48 |
| Andreas Schrägle | will push to https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/150093 soon, if anyone needs it before that is merged and done, feel free to cherry-pick from there | 15:49:15 |
| 2 Aug 2022 |
 matthewcroughan - nix.how | colemickens: I've upstreamed a few things, but it's going to be a while I think before we can put visionfive-nix on unstable | 14:27:53 |
| matthewcroughan - nix.how | * colemickens: I've upstreamed a few things, but it's going to be a while I think before we can put visionfive-nix on mainline unstable | 14:28:00 |
 colemickens | Cool. I've got a hacked up thinking working, I'm really close to having it netboot like my pis too, just need to do some uboot patches, it appears. I hope to get back to it before the weekend, but I'm off in Vancouver for a quick day and a half. | 20:52:48 |
 Minijackson | colemickens: you might be interested in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/182853 if you stumbled into the same problem as me | 21:02:26 |
| colemickens | I'm just using the systemd stage1 stuff so it hasn't been ab issue for me | 21:57:40 |
| 4 Aug 2022 |
|  ar joined the room. | 14:18:39 |
| 6 Aug 2022 |
 ius | dramforever: What u-boot version are you using? | 14:25:50 |
| ius | You need to use the systemd-stub to load the initrd, but then you also need this bugfix otherwise it fails to load initrd https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/66028930dac08f7116b5e3cdba35c3e65676c0cd | 14:28:15 |
| dramforever | In reply to @ius:nltrix.net
You need to use the systemd-stub to load the initrd, but then you also need this bugfix otherwise it fails to load initrd https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/66028930dac08f7116b5e3cdba35c3e65676c0cd I'm using NickCao's u-boot fork of starfive's u-boot fork, which adds support for distroboot (so no more weird uEnv.txt)
https://github.com/NickCao/u-boot-starfive | 16:39:22 |
| dramforever | In reply to @ius:nltrix.net
You need to use the systemd-stub to load the initrd, but then you also need this bugfix otherwise it fails to load initrd https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/66028930dac08f7116b5e3cdba35c3e65676c0cd do you happen to know how to make nixos generate images with systemd-stub? this is the bit i'm missing | 16:39:48 |
| ius | It's not integrated yet (as you've figured), but I generated them manually when I was experimenting with RiscV/EFI | 16:41:17 |
| ius | objcopy \
--add-section .osrel=os-release --change-section-vma .osrel=0x20000 \
--add-section .cmdline=cmdline.txt --change-section-vma .cmdline=0x30000 \
--add-section .linux=vmlinux --change-section-vma .linux=0x2000000 \
--add-section .initrd=initrd --change-section-vma .initrd=0x3000000 \
linuxriscv64.efi.stub_p \
kernel.efi
| 16:41:24 |
| ius | The annoying part being that every time initrd changes, you'd need to rebuild a fat stub+kernel+initrd image. Even when integrated into NixOS, that feels like it might be a waste of space on your boot partition.. | 16:44:26 |
| dramforever | That's encouraging | 16:45:38 |
| dramforever | Really though, I don't care about EFI boot that much, more like just want to know it works. | 16:46:13 |
| dramforever | These are the things I end up doing to get grub and systemd-boot to build, and also to get the systemd-boot installer to run, and I decided to submit these three tiny PRs
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184521
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184526
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184547
So far I think the next steps would be like
- Fix perl cross enough so the grub installer builds and runs
- Get systemd-boot to load initrds properly
- Add systemd-stub support to NixOS (As you've just suggested!)
What do you think?
| 16:51:42 |
| dramforever | * These are the things I end up doing to get grub and systemd-boot to build, and also to get the systemd-boot installer to run, and I decided to submit these three tiny PRs
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184521
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184526
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/184547
So far I think the next steps would be like
- Fix perl cross enough so the grub installer builds and runs
- Get systemd-boot to load initrds properly
- Add systemd-stub support to NixOS (As you've just suggested!)
What do you think?
| 16:51:47 |
| 8 Aug 2022 |
| ar left the room. | 07:21:14 |
