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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by westurner on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:28PM (#30618197)
Fwiu, the magical path to launch Grub on an ARM board is:

  /boot/efi/debian/grubaa64.efi
And that doesn't quite require tow-boot to do hw init?

"DOC: How to boot into Grub" (in order to get a passphrase-protected graphical boot menu where you can modify kernel parameters like `rescue`) https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/issues/110

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Re:Booting ARM Linux the standard way by MartijnBraam on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:42PM (#30618390)
putting a file in /boot/efi/debian/ won't do anything at all unless the specific board you have already has platform firmware onboard to actually make that work. Arm EBBR complicant server boards do this for example, this won't work for the vast majority of ARM single board computers though.
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