On 2014-08-20, Robert Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater <amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> I've a Beaglebone Black running Debian 7.6 with some wheezy-backports >> packages. This is installed on both the internal eMMC flash and also >> 7.6 installed on the SD card. >> >> What's the best way to get a fresh Jessie onto this. I can update >> from the Internet so could change sources.list and update that way. >> Alternatively, I could use the latest installer if this is >> appropriate. > Well with all the work that Vagrant has done. > > You will be able to use the debian-installer for "jessie", out of the box* Serial console installs should work out of the box, though you'll need to install u-boot manually, which is not as straightforward as one might hope. The big caveat here, is that USB support with a Debian armmp kernel is pretty much not useable: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=747364#15 The frambebuffer console works fine, but with no USB, it's hard to get an input device... > The only gotcha, you'll need to update the eMMC bootloader, grab the > console/flasher from here: > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-08-19 > > At some point factory production will switch to one of our later test > images listed there. Alternately, manually installing u-boot from within debian-installer is an option, but you really need to know your way around the quirks of installing u-boot for the BeagleBone Black. Last time I tried debian-installer it borked the u-boot partition of the BeagleBone Black, even though I asked it not to mess with that partition at all. I should follow-up with a bug if that's still the case... Good luck! live well, vagrnt
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