Re: Question about installing Debian 8.0.3 arm64 on EUFI
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:06:17PM -0700, Ronald Maas wrote:
> > Did you also follow the advise stated at the bottom of that post?:
> > ---
> > Note: A few people have pointed out that the Gigabyte isn’t SBSA
> > compliant because it lacks the right serial port, RTC and WDT. However
> > it still boots RHELSA fine if you add console=ttyS0,115200.
> > ---
> >
>
> > If not, break into grub and edit the command line by typing 'c', and
> > add the suggested modification before the --- on the "linux" line.
>
> I tried several options, but unfortunately non of these had any effect:
> console=ttyS0,115200 BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBIAN_FRONT_END=text acpi=off
>
>
> > There are a couple of reasons why the console might not be picked up
> > automatically - I am not sufficiently familiar with the Gigabyte
> > platform to tell which it is.
> >
>
> I ran the Centos installer, and noticed their EFI stub displayed 2 more
> lines compared to Debian's version:
>
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table <-----
> EFI stub: Existing boot services and installing virtual address map...
Yeah, these two lines only went into 3.16 kernel, and I don't think
they were cherry-picked into the Jessie kernel.
> <------
> L3c Cache: 8MB
>
> Not sure if this is helpful or not
>
> Anyway. Thanks for the suggestions. Ronald
I'm guessing there is something required to boot on the Gigabyte which
is not yet supported on the Jessie 3.16 kernel.
It would be interesting, but not vital, if you could try again, adding
"earlycon" to the kernel command line. Won't help anything, but would
potentially let me know what's going on.
What might help would be trying a newer installer, like the current
"testing" image:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/arm64/iso-cd/
Or failing that, the mini.iso from
https://builds.96boards.org/releases/reference-platform/components/debian-installer/16.03/
is basically a "testing" installer with some added not-yet-upstream
patches for GRUB/kernel. If the "testing" doesn't work, I would be
quite interested in seeing if this one helps.
Regards,
Leif
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