Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv> writes:

> I’ve tried multiple paths to get this working, including building both
> installer and system images on arm64 and amd64 hardware.  My current
> approach is to make a bootable qcow2 system image using Guix as a
> foreign package manager on top of Debian running in a VM on the ARM
> hardware.  This is my image definition:
> https://paste.debian.net/1342063/
>
> It’s buildable with:
>
>  guix time-machine   --commit=96cd163c14e68c66c6a4cf0b18261fc454f8c1ba
>  -- system   image vakum.scm
>
> (Commits beyond 96cd163c14e68c66c6a4cf0b18261fc454f8c1ba fail, because
> guix tests are currently broken on aarch64-linux; see #75205)
>
> This produces an image which boots to GRUB, but fails to boot the
> system.  It seems that the framebuffer console is initialized, since I
> see the QEMU window resize, but then I get a blinking cursor in the
> upper-left and nothing else.
>
> Does anyone have pointers/advice/working configs for this I can hack
> on?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you get any output if you remove quiet from the kernel arguments? You
can do this from grub or alter your system configuration
kernel-arguments.