Getting nand-sata-install to work with UEFI boot

[colton]

Hi all,

 

I have a bit of an odd application, but given the recent effort being put into UEFI boot, I thought I'd ask for some help.

 

I have a Gigabyte R152-P30, which is an Ampere 80 core, single socket server. Flash drive boot works just fine, but nand-sata-install onto the server's NVMe SSD has been troublesome.

 

I've tried several permutations of having partitions and not having partitions on the NVMe drive, but none seem to actually create a bootable result. I see on the generic armbian image page that it suggests creating an EFI partition which I do (nvme0n1p1). It then proceeds to leave that partition empty. I also have another btrfs partition on the same nvme drive (nvme0n1p2). The second partition is the one that shows up in the nand-sata-install config menu. The script sucessfully moves all files onto this new btrfs drive, and I can see it all when I mount it. If I remove the EFI partition, nothing shows up in the servers boot optoins menu. If I leave the EFI partition in, I get an option in the boot options menu, but it does nothing (black screen). I assume this is because the EFI partition is empty.

 

I'm still pretty new to understanding the Linux boot sequence, so please forgive me if I've forgotten anything trivial. My best guess was simply CP-ing over the flash drives efi folder to the nvme drive's but naturally that didn't work (unknown filesystem) and just dropped me into grub rescue.

 

Attaching logs from the servers BMC (apologies that they're screenshots). If needed I can figure out a way to get armbianmonitor -U out to you guys.

 

Thanks!

 

pics: https://imgur.com/a/yunzvJy

[Igor]

On 10/11/2022 at 9:18 AM, colton said:

but nand-sata-install onto the server's NVMe SSD has been troublesome.

 

We added many fixes to the installer in past two weeks. Please re-try with latest images (build today) from download section. And use armbian-install, which is going to replace old nand-sata-install tool once we are sure it doesn't break legacy installations.

[colton]

I know this is late to reply, but just wanted to add that I tried armbian-install with Armbian_22.11.1_Uefi-arm64_bullseye_current_5.15.80.img and it worked perfectly. Thanks!