v1.3.1 release doesn't boot from microSD if encryption option is selected

espoelstra commented

2020-12-14 18:22:55 +01:00

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Device: C101P gru-bob

I extracted v1.3.1 to a USB to install to a microSD and while the installation completes, upon rebooting without the USB inserted, I get the loud beeps/no bootable kernel error from depthcharge when trying to Ctrl+U boot, presumably because the /boot partition is encrypted or the signed kernel it looks for isn't readable?

Device: C101P gru-bob I extracted v1.3.1 to a USB to install to a microSD and while the installation completes, upon rebooting without the USB inserted, I get the loud beeps/no bootable kernel error from depthcharge when trying to Ctrl+U boot, presumably because the /boot partition is encrypted or the signed kernel it looks for isn't readable?

SolidEva commented

2020-12-15 07:07:56 +01:00

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Does this occur when encryption is not chosen? gru-bob support is still quite underdeveloped so I wouldn't be surprised if it just has issues booting from sd.

espoelstra commented

2020-12-15 14:11:13 +01:00

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It does actually boot when not using encryption, though I was still having some weird visual artifacts and lsusb and lspci weren't working so I didn't have much luck checking if a newer package made things better.

SolidEva commented

2020-12-16 03:34:30 +01:00

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hm, then something went wrong during installation. depthcharge beeping indicates the kernel isn't present at all, which encryption shouldn't effect.
How did you test sd boot? did you simply dd a prawnos image to the sd card, or did you follow the same 1) boot from usb 2) install to sd card steps as before?

I ask because my best guess is a bug in the script that installs from USB to sd

hm, then something went wrong during installation. depthcharge beeping indicates the kernel isn't present at all, which encryption shouldn't effect. How did you test sd boot? did you simply dd a prawnos image to the sd card, or did you follow the same 1) boot from usb 2) install to sd card steps as before? I ask because my best guess is a bug in the script that installs from USB to sd

espoelstra commented

2020-12-16 03:47:30 +01:00

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Your suspicions are correct, I used the Chrome Recovery tool to write the img (renamed .bin so it sees it) to a USB and then booted from the USB and did the encrypted installation to the microSD. Oddly enough the same process but without encryption works so it's maybe just a missed conditional on the encrypted installation block.

espoelstra commented

2020-12-20 20:46:23 +01:00

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I need to test this again with the image that has the USB fixes, I'm wondering if there was another kernel config option that changed between arm64 and armhf for bob/gru that would have caused issues with the encrypted installation option.

SolidEva commented

2020-12-23 22:27:39 +01:00

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Shouldn't be, I boot head of master PrawnOS on gru-kevin encrypted on emmc. I'll have to pour some time into this when I get some.

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