RdV3-R1 FVP - OS Installation issue

Hi Team,

Facing OS installation issue, while install & booting to OS with EDKII BIOS.

Using the RdV3-R1 FVP Arm Ecosystem FVPs – Arm Developer , downloaded the source with the help of XML

https://git.gitlab.arm.com/infra-solutions/reference-design/infra-refdesign-manifests/-/blob/main/rdv3r1.xml?ref_type=heads .

TAG information:

FVP Tag - RD-INFRA-2024.09.30

FVP Version - 11.27.25

With this source, able to boot to UEFI shell with EDK II BIOS.

OS Boot:

Reference: Install and Boot a Linux distribution — Neoverse Reference Design Platform Software documentation (arm.com)

With the reference, tried below OS installation on FVP:

debian-12.7.0-arm64-netinst.iso - Installation is getting started but terminated during the early installation stage.
ubuntu-24.04.1-live-server-arm64.iso - Facing hang.

Also, enabled serial debugging in Linux installation.
In the GRUB,
- Press the key 'e' to edit
- Included the 'console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200'
- Boot by pressing 'CTRL+X'
But the installation process of Ubuntu get hang.

Here attached the screenshots /cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/495/Bootissue.zip

Our system configuration to build and boot to OS.

Processor - 12th Gen Intel® Core i5-12500 × 12

OS - Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Memory - 32.0 GiB

Disk Capacity - 1.0 TB

Please let us know is there any HW/SW recommendation for OS installation & boot on FVP or let us know what configuration is used on your end to boot to OS?

Thanks,

Mehala P

0 Mehala P 1 month ago

Hi Team,

Any update on this?

Thanks,

Mehala P
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0 Tom Pilar 24 days ago

Hi, the RD-V3 models are large, I recommend at least 64GB RAM while trying to run it. Based on where the debian installer stopped, it looks like it might be reaching out to network for updated packages? Not sure.

You should definitely prefer to use the pinned manifests though: https://git.gitlab.arm.com/infra-solutions/reference-design/infra-refdesign-manifests/-/blob/RD-INFRA-2024.09.30/rdv3r1.xml?ref_type=tags

Also make sure to pair the FVP version against the tag for the pinned manifest.

You already found the documentation at: https://neoverse-reference-design.docs.arm.com/en/latest/platforms/rdv3r1.html
It's pretty good, so I recommend reading the environment setup steps in detail.
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0 Mehala P 19 days ago in reply to Tom Pilar

Hi Tom Pilar

Thank you for your suggestions.

On 32GB RAM, we tried with updated Debian ISO debian-12.8.0(Previously debian-12.7.0), the installation and boot process for RdV3R1 was successful. However, our attempt to install the latest version of Ubuntu 24.10(Previously Ubuntu-24.04.1) is also failing even after increasing the RAM to 64GB.

I have also verified the FVP version.

Could you please provide any suggestions on how to successfully install Ubuntu 24?

Thanks,

Mehala P
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0 Tom Pilar 19 days ago in reply to Mehala P

I think the model and reference firmware stack is not tested with Ubuntu 24, only 22. Let me try and investigate briefly.
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0 Mehala P 18 days ago in reply to Tom Pilar

Hi Tom Pilar,

Thank you for your quick response, Tom. I encountered the same behavior while testing on RdV3R1Cfg1 FVP as well.

I'm eagerly waiting for your reply once your testing is complete.

Thanks,

Mehala P
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0 Mehala P 18 days ago in reply to Tom Pilar
Hi Tom Pilar,

Thank you for your quick response, Tom. I encountered the same behavior while testing on RdV3R1Cfg1 FVP as well.

I'm eagerly waiting for your reply once your testing is complete.

WinPE boot issue:

I'm having one more query regarding WinPE boot on both RdN2 & RdV3R1Cfg1.

We are facing WinPE boot issue with the latest Tag RD-INFRA-2024.09.30.

Using the RdN2 FVP from ARM Ecosystem , downloaded the source with the help of RdN2 xml file.

FVP and System Configuration:

Rd-N2 FVP Version 11.27.25 with the latest firmware Tag RD-INFRA-2024.09.30.

According to prerequisites, Host machine with Ubuntu 22.04 with total disk space 1TB and 32GB of RAM. Additionally, having 128GB swap space [virtual memory].

WinPE ISO creation:

On referring the installation guide, downloaded the latest version of ADK and ADK Windows PE add-on of version 10.1.26100.1.

Followed the below steps for the creation of ISO based on WinPE guide:

copype arm64 E:\WinPE_arm64
cd E:\WinPE_arm64\media\EFI\Microsoft\Boot
bcdedit /store BCD /set {default} ems ON
MakeWinPEMedia /ISO E:\WinPE_arm64 C:\WinPE_arm64\WinPE_arm64.iso

Booting WinPE ISO:

1. For RdN2:

As per the WinPE boot guide, tried booting with the command “./distro.sh -p rdn2 -d /absolute/path/to/WinPE_arm64.iso”. While booting it hangs at this page,

After a while, it proceeds to "loading files..." but then hangs on a blank screen for overnight.

2. For RdV2R1Cfg1:

Facing the below synchronous exception.

Kindly give suggestions regarding the Boot issues of Ubuntu 24 and WinPE.

Thanks,

Mehala P
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0 Tom Pilar 18 days ago in reply to Mehala P

I don't have very good news. Ubuntu 24 is currently not supported, it's a known issue in reference firmware stack and it's being worked on, but I cannot tell you when it's likely to be mended.

For RD-N2, I recommend applying this patch to the edk2-platforms checkout:

diff --git a/Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiMemoryMap2.dsc.inc b/Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiMemoryMap2.dsc.inc
index 4989625..02c7686 100644
--- a/Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiMemoryMap2.dsc.inc
+++ b/Platform/ARM/SgiPkg/SgiMemoryMap2.dsc.inc
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@
   gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdWdogWS0Gsiv|110
   gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdWdogWS1Gsiv|111
 
+  # Generic Timer
+  gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdGtCtlBase|0x2A810000
+  gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdGtFrame1CtlBase|0x2A820000
+  gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdGtFrame0CtlBase|0x2A830000
+
   # SP804 dual timer
   gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSp804DualTimerBaseAddress|0x0C110000
   gArmSgiTokenSpaceGuid.PcdSp804DualTimerSize|0x00010000

which adds generic timer and watchdog timer info.

I currently have no info on booting WinPE on RD-V3 R1.

0 Mehala P 16 days ago in reply to Tom Pilar

Hi Tom Pilar

Thank you for your support!

Could you please let us know where we can find the latest updates regarding the OS boot?

Thanks,

Mehala P
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