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

[Barry]

> On 20 Jan 2023, at 20:40, William Roberts <bill.c.roberts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:41 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> On 19 Jan 2023, at 19:19, Roberts, William C <william.c.roberts at intel.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----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
> 
> Ok so I installed F37, built systemd and ran mkosi, but it failed as well.
> mkosi version 14 from package manager:
>   - dnf issues
>  - https://gist.github.com/williamcroberts/492f29132582aa363710878e85f7db13
> built from source (commit 6332528b0)
>  - dnf issues
>  - https://gist.github.com/williamcroberts/8923ac33413a448c737b6534f2a7c4c7

I guess you have to create an empty database to get things going?

> mkosi-13 from package manager:
>  - failed to find meson (meson is installed and sudo env can see it)
>  - https://gist.github.com/williamcroberts/f2ace4cb3ab053b2d6ff547309b7b563

Check the PATH at the point in code it tries to run meson.

Barry


> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
>