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Re: Calamares for arm64 (Was: arm64 live image working pretty well)



Hi Roland

On 2024/12/20 16:32, Roland Clobus wrote:
On 20/12/2024 15:13, Roland Clobus wrote:
On 20/12/2024 14:15, Jonathan Carter wrote:
I'd like to do some work on the arm image (mostly check what's needed to get calamares working on it, which I expect is mostly a little bit of bootloader stuff). Is there a way I can kick off a once-off build for this? Or can we have weekly builds for this for the next week or two?

You can use the rebuild script to create a cross-build (slow, but it works)

* Take a fresh git checkout of live-build
* `export LIVE_BUILD=/whereveritis/live-build`
* `/whereveritis/live-build/test/rebuild.sh --debian-version sid -- configuration gnome --architecture arm64`

You might even not need to do anything, as the Calamares installation worked fine with the build from 2024-09-02T08:13:51Z

https://openqa.debian.net/tests/302385

Yes! With an EFI setup grub-efi is completely sufficient, although longer-term I'd like to support other boot methods too. Just waiting for a usb flash disk to finish syncing then I'm installing this on my Pi4. Tried it in a VM and like above, it did go smoothly (albeit slowly since the host is x86). At some point in the future I'd also like to have the ability to boot directly from a Debian iso image on a raspberry pi, and then setup EFI directly from there, rather than relying on the user to do that as seperate steps.

-Jonathan


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