Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 14:46:45 +0100, mc36 <> said:

> hi,
> On 3/2/23 14:40, Alexander Gall wrote:
>> 
>>> then a debian install to partition #2 keeping the onie in place
>> 
>> ONIE is on partition 2 (partition 1 is the EFI system
>> partition). Don't overwrite it :)
>> 

> thanks for noticing, i'll study that carefully and screenshot to 
> album.nop.hu when im there... :)

> and finally no worries, i'll dd the ssd before doing anything destructive 
> anyway to be able to restore anytime, as i did to my bf2556....

> (also you'll find the disk image at my nas at 
> files.nop.[hu|dn42]/inet/barefoot/ )

I'd expect that only partitions 1 and 2 exist on a new device and they
can always be restored with a fresh "ONIE embed".

>>> then creating the 3rd partition for the rare installation and
>> 
>>> here comes you to help me hand-extract the below .bin to that 3rd,
>> 
>>> much like we did to my bf2556 together about a year or two ago....
>> 
>>> hmmm?
>> 
>> I'd prefer if you could simply use the ONIE installer directly. You
>> can always overwrite that with your debian installation if you want
>> to.
>> 

> so the thing is that normally i do run nix yess but sometimes when i cannot 
> wait for a whole reoptimize-recompile cycle,

> i would reserve the possibility to boot my regular debian and do on-box 
> development within 1-2 minutes for the new tofino.bin :)

> afterwards i surely fetch your builds when im done, but you know 
> trial-and-fail development all the way here :)))

I understand. But this testing will also involve multiple ONIE
re-installs to get everything right. I would suggest to make the
dual-boot setup only once the BSP is fully supported, if that's ok :)

-- 
Alex