Re: armhf installer status?

[PALFFY Daniel <dpalffy@rainstorm.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Hector Oron wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 2011/7/12 PALFFY Daniel <dpalffy@rainstorm.org>:
>
> > I'm trying to install debian on an mx53loco board. I have built a custom
> > kernel from the linaro 2.6.38 sources, with most important drivers built in,
> > it worked fine with the versatile armel installer initrd, after manually
> > installing the kernel, running mkimage and setting up the bootloader,
> > everything works fine. I've tried using both the efika initrds from
> > http://people.debian.org/~zumbi/di-armhf/mx5/netboot/genesi/ (the only armhf
> > installer I could find) and building an initrd in a debootstrapped armhf
> > chroot, both fail when trying to download installer components from the
> > mirrors, without telling which file they were missing.
> >
> > Are these images broken only on my hacked kernel, or is this a known
> > regression?
>
> Debian does not (yet) support mx53 LOCO boards, while patches are
> welcome I would suspect, at least I would try to help getting those
> into place (I am still waiting for one of those boards to arrive
> here). Phil Endecott has already had the pleasure to get that device
> running, and you are probably welcome to check his notes at:
>  <http://chezphil.org/tvcomputer/index.html>

Most of the system works fine for me, too, but since i'd like to use LVM, 
crypto, etc on the HDD, i'd rather set things up with the installer than 
with debootstrap and hand editing files...

> Regarding debian-installer on armhf, most of the support is already
> there, but some bits are still leaving in branches, some other
> packages need to be released and some other bits depend on other bug
> fixes, for example, flash-kernel, the tool generating u-boot format
> images for kernel and initrd does not handle hooks properly yet. I
> tried to look into fixing that, but I got stuck on initramfs-tools not
> calling hooks upon initrd create and delete, it only calls hooks on
> upgrade. There was some discussion at debian-kernel mailing list [0]
> about it. So basically, status is most support is there, but we need
> to wait a little and be patient. I'll try to give it another try soon
> and let the mailing list know about it.

Ok, this is again no problem for me - the armel installer had these too. I 
just booted an mx53loco kernel with the versatile netboot installer 
initramfs, and at the end of the install, chrooted into /target, installed 
my kernel deb, ran mkimage, etc. This is what I wanted to do with armhf 
too, but the installer was missing files on the mirror (tried to build 
the latest d-i git, too, with the same results). I was interested if the 
efika images work for you (at least until installing the base system)?

Thanks,

--
Daniel
			...and Linux for all.