freebsd-arm Digest, Vol 720, Issue 4

[Thomas Skibo]

> On Feb 13, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Ross Alexander <rwa at athabascau.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> Having said that, here's my puzzle - I use crochet to build little
> test images.  I last pulled it down from github 14 Nov 2019 via
> 
>    git clone https://github.com/freebsd/crochet.git
> 
> (and pulling it down today and doing a 'diff -r' says that nothing
> has happened.)  I've got pretty recent copies of the dependancies;
> 
>    aubey2:/u0/cr-wk > pkg info -E -x rpi
>    rpi-firmware-1.20190925.g20200109
>    u-boot-rpi-2019.10
>    u-boot-rpi2-2019.10
>    u-boot-rpi3-2019.10
>    u-boot-rpi4-2019.10
> 
> BUT the mmscd images don't recognize the gpart partitions on
> my rpi3's usb ssd any more.
> 
> I will provide better info when I get home and have a couple of hours
> to collect boot listings.  In short, what's broken in u-boot 2019.10,
> or what config change does it need to see gpart partitions on a USB
> device?
> 
> regards,
> Ross
> 

It looks like crochet installs boot1.efi in EFI/BOOT/bootaa64.efi but it should install loader.efi instead.  boot1.efi is incompatible with u-boot v2019.10 and causes  “UFS found no partitions” errors.

An earlier discussion:  https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2019-October/020540.html

—Thomas