>On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 03:23:29 PM Tixy
wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 12:18 +0800,
Adam Ward wrote:
[snip]
> > Ok, looks like I can get this to
work.
> > After updating the u-boot version,
Is it safe to do a dist-upgrade to get
> > things like the current kernel etc
?
>
> I expect so, but it's not something I
did as I ran the Debian installer
> to install a system from scratch rather
than upgrade what the plug
> shipped with.
>
> I also didn't follow the defaults and
installed to a removable SD card
> rather than the internal one, and
modified U-Boot and flash-kernel
> accordingly. I like my systems on
removable media so it's easy to clone
> a system image as a backup and swap
hardware out if it goes faulty.
I have the same setup, if I remove the SD
card it will boot from the internal one instead due to my u-boot
environment settings [1] and [2].
Will the debian installer change these
settings ? that is not something I had considered.
Neither the debian installer nor a dist-upgrade will change your
u-boot environment settings.