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

[Barry]

> On 19 Jan 2023, at 19:19, Roberts, William C <william.c.roberts at intel.com> wrote:
> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roberts, William C
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2023 10:45 AM
>> To: Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
>> Cc: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: RE: [systemd-devel] mkosi Unable to locate embedded .linux section:
>> Load Error
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> -----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.
> 
> Could anyone recommend a version of Fedora to test on, Ie should I pick 32, 34, 37, etc?

Use 37 its current and you can get  support.
Note fedora release only have support for a year, so 32 and 34 have been EOL for a while.

Barry

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