Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 12:24:11 +0200, Frédéric LOUI <> 
said:

> I mounted the ONIE partition and there is no «/etc/machine»

I guess it's actually in the initrd. If you have the partition mounted
on /mnt and you have a directory /tmp/foo, the following should work

xz -dc /mnt/onie/initrd.img* | cpio -imd -D /tmp/foo

-- 
Alex

> I was a bit surprised as our contact from Starlight wrote:

> <quote>
> "I’ve tried to build it in other kernels but not very successful with it.
> https://github.com/opencomputeproject/OpenNetworkLinux/tree/dc450d30dafde183f8192e3ffc88c0c68856fcb0/packages/platforms/inventec/x86-64/d10056/modules/builds/src";
> </quote>

> But it seems that this the machine id that INVENTEC used.


>> Le 8 juin 2022 à 12:13, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>> 
>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 11:00:58 +0200, Frédéric LOUI 
>> <> said:
>> 
>>> Hi Alex,
>>> I’m checking ONIE version on INVENTEC D5264.
>>> Strangely, the machine name is:
>> 
>>> root@localhost:/# cat /etc/onl/platform
>>> x86-64-inventec-d10064-r0
>> 
>> That looks like the ONIE "onie_platform" identifier, except with
>> dashes instead of underscores. From this I would say that the
>> "onie_machine" identifier (which is what I use as the platform ID in
>> the RARE package) is "inventec_d10064". You could check that if you
>> can mount the ONIE partition on that system and look at
>> /etc/machine.conf.
>> 
>> But is the D5264 the same as the D10064? Last time we did this, the
>> onie_machine ID was "inventec_d5264q28b". I can no longer find any
>> reference to D5264 on the Invetec website.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alex