Rare project developers

[Alexander Gall <>]

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 19:27:10 +0100, mc36 <> said:

> ONIE:/ # onie-nos-install 
> http://files.mchome.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/onie-installer-asterfusion-20230302.bin
> Notice:  Invalid TLV header found.  Using default contents.
> Notice:  Invalid TLV checksum found.  Using default contents.
> Info: Attempting 
> http://files.mchome.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/onie-installer-asterfusion-20230302.bin
>  ...
> Connecting to files.mchome.nop.hu (10.10.10.10:80)
> installer            100% 
> |**********************************************************************|   
> 545M  0:00:00 ETA
> Verifying image checksum ... OK.
> Preparing image archive ... OK.

> Installing RARE-OS on /dev/sda
> Disk /dev/sda: 250069680 sectors, 119.2 GiB
> Logical sector size: 512 bytes
> Disk identifier (GUID): 75EFDF55-FDBA-46F3-AAB5-1DB979567124
> Partition table holds up to 128 entries
> First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 250069646
> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
> Total free space is 249283181 sectors (118.9 GiB)

> Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>     1            2048          526335   256.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System
>     2          526336          788479   128.0 MiB   3000  ONIE-BOOT

> Checking disk space

> Creating partition /dev/sda3
> Warning: The kernel is still using the old partition table.
> The new table will be used at the next reboot.
> The operation has completed successfully.
> Warning: The kernel is still using the old partition table.
> The new table will be used at the next reboot.
> The operation has completed successfully.
> Disk /dev/sda: 250069680 sectors, 119.2 GiB
> Logical sector size: 512 bytes
> Disk identifier (GUID): 75EFDF55-FDBA-46F3-AAB5-1DB979567124
> Partition table holds up to 128 entries
> First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 250069646
> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
> Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

> Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
>     1            2048          526335   256.0 MiB   EF00  EFI System
>     2          526336          788479   128.0 MiB   3000  ONIE-BOOT
>     3          788480       250069646   118.9 GiB   8300  RARE-OS

> Formatting root partition
> mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
> Discarding device blocks: done
> Creating filesystem with 31160145 4k blocks and 7790592 inodes
> Filesystem UUID: 9e3f4c2b-0bb2-4ff1-b204-fc83d95d443e
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>          32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 
> 2654208,
>          4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

> Allocating group tables: done
> Writing inode tables: done
> Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done


> Unpacking rootfs

> Fixing timestamps in Nix store

> Executing post-install command
> Unsupported platform: switch_os
> /nix/var/nix/profiles/RARE cannot be activated

The code for this is here: 
https://github.com/alexandergall/bf-sde-nixpkgs/blob/master/bf-sde/support/installers/onie/post-install-cmd.nix

The assumption is that /etc/machine.conf (on the ONIE partition)
contains a valid "onie_machine" variable. This should be the ONIE
identifier of the device, e.g. "accton_wedge100bf_32x". In this case,
I expected it to be "asterfusion_x312p" but it appears to be
"switch_os". Can you please show me the full contents of
/etc/machine.conf? I'll have to ask the Asterfusion guys about this.

Hoever, this should not prevent that the install completes. It simply
does not activate RARE (via "release-manager --activate").

> Installing GRUB
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-8-amd64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-8-amd64
> done
> Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
> grub-install: warning: EFI variables are not supported on this system..
> Installation finished. No error reported.

> Updating EFI boot order
> BootCurrent: 0001
> Timeout: 0 seconds
> BootOrder: 0002,0001,2001,2002,2003,0000
> Boot0000* SATA SSD
> Boot0001* ONIE Linux
> Boot2001* EFI USB Device
> Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM
> Boot2003* EFI Network
> Boot0002* RARE-OS
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> mc36@noti:~$
> mc36@noti:~$

So did the rest work and the system booted ok?

--
Alex