Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

well it's not a race afterall... we just finished the vc with the 5g control 
plane guys from uhf.eus

now my dinner, then i'll try dd from onie# then some beers 4 me and the table 
football championship :)

please take a look at album.nop.hu, the screenshots here is a live stream of 
what i did to my router already... :)

thx,
cs

On 3/2/23 15:08, Alexander Gall wrote:
> 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 :)