Installing coreboot with SeaBIOS

Hi,

*Supplement:
I've noticed that the name of the USB stick is a Linux distribution so I assume I wrote a .iso or .img to it in the past what possibly changed partitions and/or file formats. How can I restore the stick back to "normal" with Ubuntu?*

while copying the coreboot/SeaBIOS installation (folder coreboot) to a USB stick I got the following error message:
Error with copying of >>usb_tcpm_v2_rev30_fuzz.c<<.
With copying of the file to ... /coreboot/3rdparty/-chromeec/fuzz an error occurred.
The file system doesn't support symbolic links
Cancel | Skip all | Skip
What can I do?
Regards,
Bernd

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> while copying the coreboot/SeaBIOS installation (folder coreboot)
> to a USB stick I got the following error message:
> Error with copying of >>usb_tcpm_v2_rev30_fuzz.c<<.
> With copying of the file to ... /coreboot/3rdparty/-chromeec/fuzz an error occurred.
> The file system doesn't support symbolic links
> Cancel | Skip all | Skip
> What can I do?

Two choices come to my mind:

1. Don't copy the folder to the stick as-is but instead create an archive
(something like .tar, .tar.gz or .zip) of the folder first and then
copy that single file to the stick.

Exactly how to do that depends on the tools you're using. I'd suggest
to right-click on the coreboot folder on the hard drive and see if
there's any promising option in the menu that opens.

2. Reformat the stick partition with a filesystem that supports symbolic
links, e.g. ext4.

Kind regards

//Peter

[Peter Stuge]

[e-mail] wrote:
> I suppose your second choice
> ... "2. Reformat the stick partition with a filesystem" ...
> is the most promising.

If you haven't saved anything else on the USB stick then sure, go ahead
and format it.
> What's the default partitioning/file systems for a 64 GiB USB stick
> (how many partitions, what types of partitions, what file system for
> which specific partition)?

This too is a function of the particular software you're using. I don't
know what the file manager or disk manager applications you got with
your Linux installation will suggest.

I'd create a single partition and format it to use ext4.

Note that ext4 being a journaling filesystem makes it critically important
to cleanly unmount the filesystem after you write to it, before unplugging
the USB stick.

ext4 is not optimized to be very robust when misused, so if the USB
stick is unplugged without unmounting first then data loss is highly
likely and the filesystem can even become corrupted beyond repair.

(These things are unrelated to coreboot and quite off-topic for the list,
plus I'd think that the same answers can be found in many other places.)

I hope you've been able to flash already :)

//Peter