[systemd-devel] mkosi Unable to locate embedded .linux section: Load Error

[Roberts, William C]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 3:30 AM
> To: Roberts, William C <william.c.roberts at intel.com>
> Cc: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] mkosi Unable to locate embedded .linux section:
> Load Error
> 
> On Di, 17.01.23 20:09, Roberts, William C (william.c.roberts at intel.com) wrote:
> 
> > I am on current main branch:
> > 0eb635ef4bc1 (HEAD -> main, origin/main, origin/HEAD) units: don't
> > install pcrphase-related units without gnu-efi
> >
> > And I cannot get the mkosi qemu to work, mkosi boot does work. It
> > looks like it's not finding the relevant section to boot from the image:
> > Unable to locate embedded .linux section: Load Error Failed to execute
> > Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish))
> > (\EFI\Linux\mkosi-ubuntu-5.15.0-58-generic.efi): Load Error
> 
> (Note, older mkosi didn#t use the "ukify" infra to generate UKIs, and there was a
> chance this would result in overlapping PE sections which might be the issue
> here. but that's just a guess. please try current mkosi git, and see if that works)
> 
> (I guess most mkosi upstreams use fedora, not ubuntu, so this might be less
> tested)

On mkosi commit 6332528, it used bootctl --root which seems to not be available
On my Ubuntu 20.04 system (bootctl --version yields system 245) .
I'll set up a Fedora machine and test there.

> 
> Lennart
> 
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