Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 15:02:57 +0100, mc36 <> said:

> not yet there as usb-boot stuck at grub prompt detecting the serial 
> console...
> now the upf (5g) vc then some hacking for the sdn congress then
> i'll try to dd the flash from onie to a big enough external usb hdd or 
> something....

> let's postpone the together hacking to tomorrow afternoon when you see fit?

Ok. Maybe the box @CERN will also be ready by then.

--
Alex

> thanks,
> cs

> On 3/2/23 14:58, Alexander Gall wrote:
>> 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 :)
>>