Bug 32962

Summary:	kernel and drakboot are not sync
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jybz <j.biernacki+mga>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ghibomgx, kernel, thierry.vignaud
Version:	9
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	armv7hl
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools, kernel	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jybz 2024-03-12 23:38:11 CET

Hello, my arm devices are not booting anymore :party: !

After two hours debugging, I solve my issue and dig into the root cause.

For my BananaPro (armv7hl) that I installed with mageia7 and updates, I'm not using grub2, but u-boot with extlinux.conf which worked pretty good, out of the box.

Now the issue, the fdtdir is just not present in the extlinux.conf file, which prevent to boot the BananaPro (all my aarch64 does not boot neither, but I can not access them so I can not say if it is a related issue)

drakboot is generating this extlinux.conf for u-boot, in this order:
> https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/bootloader.pm#n1582 (focus on line 1601)
> https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/bootloader.pm#n1036 (focus on line 1076)
> https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/bootloader.pm#n133
> https://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/perl-install/bootloader.pm#n88

This is not aligned anymore with what the kernel package provides:
> https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/updates/9/kernel/current/SPECS/kernel.spec?view=markup#l1396

After manually editing the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file and providing the fdtdir entry for installed kernel, the board boots.

Please align drakx tool and kernel package.

Jybz 2024-03-12 23:45:36 CET

CC: (none) => ghibomgx, thierry.vignaud

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2024-03-13 20:53:18 CET

/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf : cannot find its origin.
extlinux.conf : same
fdtdir : same
Must be Arm specials.
bootloader.pm is from drakxtools-backend.

Assigning this intially to tools, CC'ing kernel. Reverse this if appropriate.

Source RPM: drakxtools kernel => drakxtools, kernel
CC: (none) => kernel
Hardware: All => armv7hl
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools