Re: Honeycomb LX2 ARM board, problems booting Guix

[Christopher Baines]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> On 2021-06-29, Christopher Baines wrote:
>> I've had a Honeycomb LX2 board for a few weeks now, but I've been
>> struggling to get Guix installed on it.
>>
>> The most success I've had is with an installer image written to either a
>> USB drive or nVME drive. I changed the bootloader to the
>> grub-efi-bootloader, using the efi-raw image type, a couple of other
>> tweaks, but I only get as far as Linux starting Guile and then it
>> promptly erroring [1].
>>
>> 1: https://paste.debian.net/plain/1202864
>>
>> For some reason, /proc/partitions is empty, and I can't see usual things
>> relating to storage devices in /dev. Any ideas how this could happen,
>> what might I be doing wrong, or anything else I could try?
>
> Most likely missing kernel modules from the initrd, missing kernel
> configuration options enabled, and/or missing support in the kernel
> upstream...
>
> Hopefully it's one of the first two; good luck module/option hunting!

Thanks for the tip, I think I've muddled through enabling relevant
things in Linux to get past the partition problem at least.

I've seemingly still got some problem getting in to the
installer/getting a tty over the serial connection, but I'll send
another email about that.

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