Armbian UEFI (arm64 and x86)

[Igor]

9 hours ago, DeterminedOpier said:

until I attempted to install it only the computer's drive.

There is one bug related to UEFI installer which you might have luck to bump into  I hope we will soon fix this. If not before, next time I am reinstalling OS on my x86 hardware. I use Armbian x86 almost exclusively.

[DeterminedOpier]

Yes but you are smart Igor.   I'm actually writing a book on building a home media server. Not for smart people. i wrote one of the first website automation books for Wiley back in 1996, and gave away on the CD what was probably the first remote authoring software for the masses, long before wordpress.  When I figure out a repeatable path to do cool stuff easy I like to share it, and I think the pis are an absolute revolution.  Figured I'd keep the instructions on an os as easy as possible and consistent. I'll try this again in a month or so and see if it's fixed. No biggie. Linux Mint is pretty light and you set up a user and pw so you don't have to go searching for the login.

 

Thanks for answering Igor. 

[SoSie]

GOOD NEWS FOLKS !!!

I can say now UEFI x86 can arm64 chroot in Armbian if we fix the missing link as I indicated in  https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1820

thus we can, i imagine, cross compile in the target sbc directly. Here is the screenshot..

 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2023 by SoSie

[SoSie]

This make Mac Book Air 2010 (Snow leopard) a breeze to Leo Tux ..just the trackpad is crazy but I used a mice -
Big thanks to all the Armbian Team! YOUPIE OH!! Cheers SoSie.

 

[7alken]

hi all, I wanted to try boot armbian uefi-x86 also on some quite old (14 years) small netbooks with AMD C-50/C-60 I have still here (at that time, they had 64bit and up to 8G ram as opposite to regular intel atoms up to 2G max). But I was scared if the UEFI image is able to work with plain old BIOS (initially misrepresented this as ACPI by me). So I got to chat with machine about that, as noob asking for some at the end totally unnecessary steps after extacting image and mounting it live (so edited in-place, no need to repack anything ..., understood, learning, ya, ... but some unnecessary heat-up of datacenters...grrr)... after few unsuccessful tries, I decided to REMOVE some suspicious options from linux kernel load about splash, plymouth, i915 (still dont know exact core issue, but following ommisions helped - so NO image rebuild necessary, it boots from old BIOS okay):

REMOVE (key "e" at grub menuentry):
    quiet splash plymouth.ignore=serial-consoles i915.force_probe=* $vt_handoff

 

and while screen initially shows this, after few seconds it continues to boot in terminal and everything seems to be working:
"call_iq_handler: 1.55 No irq handler for vector"

final armbianmonitor results (without update/upgrade)

Acer One 522 (C-50) + 722 (C-60) similar - edit of grub linux kernel load required
https://paste.armbian.com/yeteyajiki

    Acer Aspire 8735z (Pentium T3200 2Ghz) - no changes to grub menuentry
    https://paste.armbian.com/wecituhufo
 

(plus I also tried the boot on some newer Intel Atom system as Lenovo Miix320-10Icr, on some Celeron N4100 etc - no issues)

... knowing this, we also discussed that this is really plain generic amd64 build, so I will be glad to try to optimize this for new ryzen7 8845hs system 🙂
(you know, after decades with windows, I am really carefully planning the switch ... for the SBC boards its clear that support is for those who pay (attention) ... )

 

Petr

for those curious, my NOOB endeavor investigating armbian image hack edits, and amd64 introduction history ...
(I know its machine, but I recently asked her to select name, and she selected Lyra ... so, one issue is that she is very polite, not criticizing easily idiotic steps asked by me ... ))
https://chatgpt.com/share/68126da7-7084-8000-ba8b-9f3d372824f4
https://chatgpt.com/share/6814a2f1-f9dc-8000-b770-fbba071e5d8b