On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 09:06:21AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello Efraim, > > > the uvesafb-service which was added to the installation image isn't > > supported on aarch64 (or probably any non-x86 system) and causes the > > creation of an installation image to fail. > > Thanks for reporting. There's this small snippet in uvesafb-service: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (or (not (and (string-suffix? "linux-gnu" %host-type) > (or (string-prefix? "x86_64" %host-type) > (string-prefix? "i686" %host-type)))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > which must then fail? Do you have a specific error message? > I haven't tested the produced image, but the following builds without trying to also build v86d (start (if (and (and (string-suffix? "linux-gnu" %host-type) (or (string-prefix? "x86_64" %host-type) (string-prefix? "i686" %host-type))) (file-exists? "/dev/fb0")) #~(lambda () ;; uvesafb is only supported on x86 and x86_64. (invoke #+(file-append kmod "/bin/modprobe") "uvesafb" (string-append "v86d=" #$v86d "/sbin/v86d") "mode_option=1024x768")) #~(lambda () #t))) -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted