Hi, Am 15. August 2024 00:47:22 MESZ schrieb Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org>: >On Fri Aug 9, 2024 at 10:08 PM CEST, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Guided partitioning with LVM already provides a feature to reserve space >> in the VG. Maybe it could be extended to guided partitioning with plain >> partitions. > >I'm not 100% sure if this fits into this subject/discussion, but ... > >On ARM devices it would be very useful if the first 16MB would be >(automatically) reserved. >The U-Boot bootloader is normally put in the first part of the boot >device and for Rockchip based devices that can extend to the 16MB >'mark'. AFAIK bootloaders for other SoCs are before that. > >If you use the current recipes you end up with an unbootable system as >the U-Boot bootloader get overwritten with the / (root) partition and >the data on it. >There should be a bug for it, but I didn't manage to find it. > >Right now, the instruction is to choose manual partitioning and create >a 16MB partition ([1] says 32MB, but it should be 16MB [2]) and then the >normal partitions and after that you could remove that partition again. >And if you type in 16MB, then you need to 'hope' that it is actually >16MB and not something (a bit) smaller. >I like to think that I'm more advanced then most users and I found it >quite difficult to do. > >So it would be very helpful if the recipe(s) for ARM devices would >reserve the first 16MB automatically with plain partitioning. > >[1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCK64_Software_Releases#Debian >[2] https://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Partitions
Looks like another incarnation of <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+770666> @vagrant: is this still (or again) an issue? Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
