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


From: Jesse Gibbons
Subject: Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 07:23:19 -0700
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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



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