Unable to boot Alpine Linux

[SniverDaBest]

Describe the bug I successfully built an Alpine Linux shim, but it goes to a black screen, and does nothing.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to shimboot
2. Press 3 to go to Alpine
3. Black screen after a little message

Expected behavior Alpine Linux should work, as it's supported in the build files.

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If you are reporting an issue with the build process, please run the scripts in debug mode by putting DEBUG=1 before the build commmand, like sudo DEBUG=1 ./build_complete.sh.

Target Chrome OS Device (please complete the following information):

• Board Name dedede
• Device Name drawlat
• Shimboot version v1.2.1

Build Device (please complete the following information):

• OS: Debian Buster
• Neofetch out [run neofetch --stdout and paste it here]

Additional context Alpine loads openrc, and does some stuff before it goes to a black screen. Also, yes, I have tried waiting.

[ading2210]

I think I know why this bug occurs. To fix the systemd boot messages on Debian, the bootloader bind mounts /dev/pts/0 to /dev/console. However, this has to be unmounted later so that xorg can start, which the Alpine rootfs does not do.

To work around this for now, you can remove these lines in /bin/bootstrap.sh in the bootloader. https://github.com/ading2210/shimboot/blob/0cce802d4a16c7048d2383a83428834eefda72f5/bootloader/bin/bootstrap.sh#L298-L303

[SniverDaBest]

That still didn't work sadly. Still gets stuck. I have a feeling it might be the login manager or something. It also could be openrc.

[funkymokey]

Is there an update on this?

[SniverDaBest]

Sadly no. My friend uses alpine on his octopus chromebook, and it seems fine. Still doesn't work on my dedede...