From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 47723-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47723: Boot failure with u-boot on cubietruck
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:22:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210417202258.433cca7f@tachikoma.lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210413211449.5033c468@scratchpost.org>
Le Tue, 13 Apr 2021 21:14:49 +0200,
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> a écrit :
> Hi Julien,
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:18:30 +0200
> Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
>
> > I suspect something might have changed in u-boot recently (maybe the
> > upgrade to 2021.01, since I didn't have to reboot this year yet).
> [...]
> > board might not be initialized as expected and all kernels from
> > 4.19 to the latest 5.11 fail to boot.
>
> Yeah, that happens sometimes with u-boot. It sucks--but I suspect
> there's just not a lot of people updating their u-boot installation
> all the time (or at all ever).
>
> I'm not sure whether it's better to just provide the old u-boot or to
> figure out what exactly broke (the latter is probably gonna take
> quite some time).
Thanks for the help, I finally managed to boot it with the newer
2021.04 u-boot. Maybe 2021.01 did something wrong that was fixed later?
>
> > In the end, I reinstalled a foreign distribution (that uses u-boot
> > 2017.01) and can SSH to the machine, but I haven't reinstalled Guix
> > yet. Guix was installed on an external disk, so I haven't lost
> > anything other that the bootloader it installed. I can chroot to
> > the Guix system:
> >
> > mount -v --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> > mount -v --bind /dev/pts /mnt/dev/pts
> > mount -vt proc proc /mnt/proc
> > mount -vt sysfs sysfs /mnt/sys
> > chroot /mnt /run/current-system/profile/bin/bash
> > . /etc/profile
> >
> > What should be my next step?
> >
> > I tried running guix from inside the chroot:
> > /root/.config/current/bin/guix-daemon
> > --build-users-group=guixbuild &
>
> Try
>
> unshare -m /root/.config/current/bin/guix-daemon
> --build-users-group=guixbuild &
>
> It should work then.
Ah, I found another workaround, not sure how it works but, from the
foreign system I could "mount --make-rprivate /" and it would work.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-17 18:24 UTC|newest]
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2021-04-12 11:18 bug#47723: Boot failure with u-boot on cubietruck Julien Lepiller
2021-04-13 19:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2021-04-17 18:22 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
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