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

[William Roberts]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:53 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> > On 20 Jan 2023, at 20:40, William Roberts <bill.c.roberts at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:41 PM Barry <barry at barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> >>>> 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
> >
> > 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
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> I guess you have to create an empty database to get things going?
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> > mkosi-13 from package manager:
> >  - failed to find meson (meson is installed and sudo env can see it)
> >  - https://gist.github.com/williamcroberts/f2ace4cb3ab053b2d6ff547309b7b563
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> Check the PATH at the point in code it tries to run meson.

Ok I got the mkosi build working again. It seemed it did not like
building out of an
sshfs mount. But I bumped into the same error:

BdsDxe: loading Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU QEMU HARDDISK " from
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Scsi(0x0,0x0)
BdsDxe: starting Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU QEMU HARDDISK " from
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Scsi(0x0,0x0)
systemd-boot at 0x7D146000,0x7D165000
systemd-stub at 0x70187000,0x701A1000
Unable to locate embedded .linux section: Load Error
Failed to execute Fedora Linux 37 (Thirty Seven) (37 (Thirty Seven))
(\EFI\Linux\mkosi-fedora-6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64.efi): Load Error
BdsDxe: failed to start Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU QEMU HARDDISK " from
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x3,0x0)/Scsi(0x0,0x0): Load Error
systemd-boot at 0x7CEC9000,0x7CEE8000
systemd-stub at 0x70187000,0x701A1000
Unable to locate embedded .linux section: Load Error


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