On Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:17:45 +0100 "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you very much for filing a bug report. I had considered doing > that myself, but I don’t know enough about the cause to create the > bug report. And I can’t “reproduce” the error using the reportbug > program. It would be great if you could post the bug number or a link > https://bugs.debian.org/xxx to it here, so I can follow the issue > there. > > Heiko Sure, I'd be happy to do that. The bug report is at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1130560. -- Aaron > Am 12.03.26 um 22:41 schrieb Aaron Rainbolt: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:17:05 -0400 > > Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:32:04 -0400 > >> Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ... snip ... > > > >> I'm not sure if this is particularly safe, since it depends on the > >> Raspberry Pi firmware only checking the second (or perhaps first > >> two) partitions for GPT protective MBR partitions, and depends on > >> the Linux kernel continuing to recognize a disk as GPT-formatted > >> even if only a small part of it is covered by a protective > >> partition. This might also not work on newer (or older) Raspberry > >> Pi versions. But, with Debian Trixie, on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8 > >> GB RAM, this works. The alternative would be to switch to an > >> MBR-only partition table, which is what grml-debootstrap currently > >> does. This is probably safer in the long run, but maybe there are > >> reasons to avoid this. > >> > >> -- > >> Aaron > > > > Small update, it looks like this is a case of the raspi-firmware > > package in Trixie being too old. Raspberry Pi OS is able to boot > > (well, load the kernel and initramfs anyway, I didn't get bootup to > > work all the way, but not because I couldn't, just because I > > didn't) with a hybrid MBR configuration similar to what the Trixie > > cloud image is using. Furthermore, the hybrid MBR layout also works > > on a Trixie cloud image if I copy over the start*.elf and > > fixup*.dat files from a Raspberry Pi OS firmware partition to the > > Trixie cloud image firmware partition. > > > > I'll be filing a bug report in Debian for this in the near future. > > > > -- > > Aaron >
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