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Symptoms

boots to grub menu, but when any option selected it says

unaligned pointer 0x8c6ebc159a4294f5
Aborted. Press any key to exit.

Pressing a key resets the board

Sources

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/compare/master...telent:nixpkgs:not-again

• two patches for cross-compiling perl
• one commit to force grub into textmode, per recommendation from Samuel DR
• based on nixpkgs 5857574d459, as seen in https://hydra.nixos.org/build/185929322#tabs-buildinputs

I built the image with

NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=./nixpkgs nix-build '<nixpkgs/nixos>' -A config.system.build.isoImage  -I nixos-config=./odroid-n2-text-mode.nix

Hardware/firmware

Odroid N2 Plus with Tow-Boot in SPI. Cross-compiling from x86-64

odroid-n2-text-mode.nix

$ cat odroid-n2-text-mode.nix
{ pkgs, modulesPath, lib, ... }:
let inherit (lib) mkForce; in {
  imports = [
    "${modulesPath}/installer/cd-dvd/installation-cd-minimal-new-kernel.nix"
  ];
  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [
    "usb_storage"
    "uas"
  ];
  documentation.enable = lib.mkOverride 32000 false;
  documentation.nixos.enable = lib.mkOverride 32000 false;
  nixpkgs.crossSystem.system = "aarch64-linux";

  boot.supportedFilesystems = lib.mkForce [ "vfat" "f2fs" "xfs" ];
}