On 2024-01-12, Michael Fladischer wrote: > I have a Sifive Hifive Unmatched Rev B to test Debian on Risc-V. So far > it has been absolutely stable and worked really well. Installation was > done as outlined by [0] with boot from onboard SPI Flash and NVMe drive. > > The wiki instructs one to use vfat for /boot which now has started to > render the linux-image-6.6.9-riscv64 package uninstallable: Seems like the wiki is broken. Supporting vfat for /boot is unlikely to ever work in Debian... > Any advise on how to handle this best? > > * Does syslinux/extlinux support having /boot on ext4 or similar posix fs? U-Boot supports /boot on ext4, which is what parses the syslinux/exlinux menus. > * Would it make sense dpkg-divert all files in /boot to somewhere else > and use hooks in /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ to copy files to /boot? > * Something else? Just use ext4 for /boot. :) > [0] https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/SiFive/HiFiveUnmatched I haven't figured out where that was introduced in the history yet, but probably needs to be fixed. live well, vagrant
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