Re: u-boot banana pi armv7

["George Morgan" <gmorgan%fastmail.fm@localhost>]

Hi Markus,

The version of bootarm.efi that I have is able to boot from my MBR disk.  I used the strings command you provided and it looks like it is looking for efiboot.plist.  I still haven't found documentation on the allowable contents of efiboot.plist file anywhere.  Sounds like the format was created by Apple?  I might have to take a look at the source code to decipher what is possible...  I guess I could put a empty file in /etc/efiboot.plist and see if bootarm.efi finds it.

-- 
  George Morgan
  gmorgan%fastmail.fm@localhost

On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, at 12:12 AM, Markus Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi George,
> 
> Am Sa., 23. Jan. 2021 um 00:16 Uhr schrieb George Morgan <gmorgan%fastmail.fm@localhost>:
> > [...]
> > On which device / filesystem does the efiboot.plist or boot.cfg need to be created on?
> 
> IIRC bootarm.efi uses the first netbsd / ffs partition to search for
> that file, but maybe it's limited to gpt partitions (efi means gpt
> normally; I haven't tried / used mbr oder disklabel for that).
> 
> Maybe you can try / see that at the bootarm.efi prompt where you type
> 'ls', 'dev' etc. to find out what was found by / is available for
> bootarm.efi (if none, migrating mbr to gpt on the sata disk would be
> an option).
> 
> 'strings bootarm.efi | grep boot' should show you whether
> '/etc/efiboot.plist' or boot.cfg would be used.
> 
> Markus.
>