Re: [9front] Booting without sd card (MNT Reform)

[alex-ml@posteo.de]

Hello khm,

thank you very much, that helps me a lot! :)

Best regards,
Alex

Am 24.05.2024 17:00 schrieb Kurt H Maier:
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:26:50AM +0000, alex-ml@posteo.de wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I found an article about booting 9front without sd card on the MNT 
>> Reform in
>> the wiki (http://wiki.9front.org/mnt-reform) and would like to try 
>> this.
>> 
>> First, it says:
>> "make sure to run the latest (dated 2023-01-15, at least) kernel."
>> 
>> ext4srv is shown in /bin, so the image I'm using should be new enough, 
>> but
>> for the latest build I just have to "mk install" in /sys/src/9/imx8, 
>> or am I
>> wrong?
> 
> In /sys/src/9/imx8, run mk and you should wind up with a 9reform.u file
> -- this is your kernel plus ipaq put into a format uboot can read.  
> This
> should go in the root folder of the emmc storage, along with your
> plan9.ini and boot.scr.  mk install won't do this for you, since 
> there's
> more than one way to boot an imx8.
> 
>> The last instruction states:
>> "the switch under the heatsink should be positioned to booting from 
>> EMMC,
>> this is not the default when the laptop is purchased"
>> 
>> Is this the "XSW" / "SW1" (or in the MNT Documentation it is called
>> "User-Defined Switch") Switch? And if so, should it be "ON" to boot 
>> from
>> NVMe?
> 
> It's this switch, pictured in the post here:
> https://community.mnt.re/t/operating-system-on-nvme-without-sd-card/110/3
> 
> this picture specifically:
> https://community.mnt.re/uploads/default/original/1X/17e7457e179e68e3c74ab15fb2b47e3ab8f2945d.jpeg
> 
> the switch is indeed SW1 and is on the module itself, not the reform
> mainboard.  you must remove your heatsink in order to access it.
> 
> khm