[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] board: Add support for nautilus chromebook

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Tue Dec 3 21:44:26 UTC 2019



On 20/11/2019 23:19, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
>> +	partition kernel {
>> +		image = "Image.kpart"
>> +		bootable = "true"
>> +		partition-type-uuid = FE3A2A5D-4F32-41A7-B725-ACCC3285A309
> Just curious, the UUID needs to be exactly that one for the
> bootloader/firmware to pick up the kernel image from there ?

 Since nobody else responded to this: in GPT, the partition type UUID is the
equivalent of the 1-byte partition type in good old MBR. In [1] you can find
that this GUID is for Chrome OS kernel. So yes, I guess the bootloader searches
for a partition with that GUID.

 Regards,
 Arnout

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs




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