On 08/22/2012 04:40 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:11:56PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
I only briefly looked at EFI partitioning. My conclusion was some EFI variable gets set to point to the boot loader, but if there's bootable flags that's better for u-boot. I haven't worried about it because I can't even get debian installer to use EFI partitions. It's partitioning config basically says if the arch is arm, use DOS partitions.
It does for now, yes. It's reasonably easy to tweak and rebuild - I've just been doing that for amd64/efi in the last couple of weeks. If you'd like some help with it, please shout! :-)
Not to wander too far off-topic, but:
I found that simply grabbing an ubuntu-core pre-installed filesystem tar file, untar'ing that onto an SD card (or other built-in storage), and then apt-get'ing the rest of the required packages works quite well; no need for these fancy installer things:-) A few small tweaks are required (like ubuntu-core doesn't include enough packages to set up networking) but they're fairly easy to overcome; see:
http://www.omappedia.com/wiki/OMAP_Ubuntu_Core#Chroot.27ing_into_the_Ubuntu_...
(thanks to Ogra on #ac100 IRC for the link)