From: "Nguyễn Gia Phong" <cnx@loang.net>
To: <chung@loa.loang.net>, <~cnx/loang@lists.sr.ht>
Subject: Re: Permanent temporary solutions of future past
Date: Sun, 12 May 2024 06:13:40 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D174J8LOQA0U.14UT2MXOIHAKQ@loang.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D16T24MXDP3T.3BR1X04I90CGT@guix>
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On 2024-05-11 at 22:35+09:00, Nguyễn Gia Phong wrote:
> [Ubuntu Server's] installer doesn't install bootloader on the eMMC.
>
> Instead of writing the bootloader from StarFive's image, I decided
> to be lazy and just clean up and upgrade StarFive's Debian [1]
> to current Sid. This, BTW, might have been a mistake, because unlike
> Ubuntu which colaborates with StarFive and applies its patches on
> the current kernel, Debian does not and we are stuck with Linux 6.1.
> For now, it's doing well enough but a reinstall is almost required
> [...] I will also to convert the file system into Btrfs and set up
> local backup.
>
> 1: https://debian.starfivetech.com
As it turned out, StarFive's kernel doesn't have the Btrfs module
and doing anything with kernels would result in an unbootable disk.
I ended up installing Ubuntu on the NVMe and configuring the SPI flash
to boot from it.
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