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How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - stefan.schumacher - 07-06-2019
Hello.
Well, as the subject says I would like to know how the Pinebook Pro boots. Does it have a UEFI (arggh) or does it use something reasonable like Coreboot / Libreboot / Das U-Boot etc. I am happy enough to own a notebook without Intel's ME but a privacy-conscious boot-manager would be the icing on the cake.
Yours faithfully
Stefan
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - tllim - 07-08-2019
(07-06-2019, 07:02 AM)stefan.schumacher Wrote: Hello.
Well, as the subject says I would like to know how the Pinebook Pro boots. Does it have a UEFI (arggh) or does it use something reasonable like Coreboot / Libreboot / Das U-Boot etc. I am happy enough to own a notebook without Intel's ME but a privacy-conscious boot-manager would be the icing on the cake.
Yours faithfully
Stefan
Uboot
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - Wizzard - 07-09-2019
Will it support some kind of multi boot from eMMC / NVMe, using GRUB or something else?
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - Luke - 07-09-2019
(07-09-2019, 12:02 AM)Wizzard Wrote: Will it support some kind of multi boot from eMMC / NVMe, using GRUB or something else?
The possibility to dual-boot will come sometime after launch. @Mrfixit2001 has just gotten uboot to display a menu similar to GRUB at boot -- currently the purpose of it is to allow users to roll back to a previous kernel in the event a kernel upgrade has gone wrong. But obviously it could also be used to 'point' to rootfs.
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - u974615 - 08-09-2019
I would be nice to be able to flash Coreboot as the boot firmware...since that is what ASUS Chromebook Flip C101PA-DB02 uses...https://github.com/rockchip-linux/coreboot/tree/master/src/soc/rockchip/rk3399...but with a different payload...not DepthCharge... maybe GRUB2... Tianocore... https://doc.coreboot.org/payloads.html
Slower boot, yes, but with GRUB2 this would make the laptop function more like a PC and be easier to install other distros...
Alexander Graf: uEFI grub2 on Raspberry Pi (to Das u-Boot to GRUB2 to SUSE)
https://youtu.be/bNL1pd-rwCU
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - Thra11 - 08-09-2019
(07-09-2019, 05:54 AM)Luke Wrote: @Mrfixit2001 has just gotten uboot to display a menu similar to GRUB at boot
I'm guessing this is using "extlinux"?
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - Luke - 08-09-2019
(08-09-2019, 10:15 AM)Thra11 Wrote:(07-09-2019, 05:54 AM)Luke Wrote: @Mrfixit2001 has just gotten uboot to display a menu similar to GRUB at boot
I'm guessing this is using "extlinux"?
I believe so yes
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - Wizzard - 10-03-2019
Can anyone provide a guide how to enable and configure that uboot menu? I know some people already have their PBP, so they could try and test it.
And this thread should be moved to Pinebook Pro subforum.
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - tllim - 10-03-2019
(10-03-2019, 01:16 AM)Wizzard Wrote: Can anyone provide a guide how to enable and configure that uboot menu? I know some people already have their PBP, so they could try and test it.
And this thread should be moved to Pinebook Pro subforum.
Moved
RE: How does the Pinebook Pro boot? - tllim - 10-03-2019
(10-03-2019, 01:16 AM)Wizzard Wrote: Can anyone provide a guide how to enable and configure that uboot menu? I know some people already have their PBP, so they could try and test it.
And this thread should be moved to Pinebook Pro subforum.
Moved