Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

[Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>]

On 11/4/20 10:44 AM, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> Hello Jesse,
>
>> -> Which board did you get working with guix system (banana pi m2u, novena,
>>    beaglebone black, pine64-plus, etc.)?
>> -> Did you build natively or cross-build from a different system?
>> -> What version of guix did you use? (what did guix describe say?)
>> -> If the board you got working can boot from an internal (emmc) or external
>>    (microsd) drive, which one did you get working?
>> -> Would you mind sharing the operating-system definition that was successful?
> The situation is slowly improving. Since recently, you should be able to
> build a barebones image for pine64 lts this way:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix system disk-image -t pine64-raw os.scm
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> with os.scm that looks like:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (use-modules (gnu system images pine64))
>
> pine64-barebones-os
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Note that this very image is also build by the CI and available here:
>
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/search/latest/image?query=spec:guix-master+status:success+system:x86_64-linux+pine64
>
> You should be able to flash this image on a microsd and directly boot
> from it.
>
> I will try to improve the documentation accordingly, but until then you
> can also read this:
>
> https://othacehe.org/the-guix-system-image-api.html.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
Thank you for the information.
What pine64 boards can boot the image? I have a pinephone on its way 
right now, do you think it will be able to boot that image, or will I 
have to specify a different u-boot?
-Jesse