Re: armhf Installer Image

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:53:48PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> I think the hd-media image support should also work with MMC, no?

Yes, the actual block device from which the installer is booted
should not matter.

> The partitioning defaults in debian-installer for several boards
> (wandboard, cubox-i, beagleboneblack) all seemed to wipe out the space
> on the MMC where u-boot was written, so that needed to be fixed
> manually... need to dive in a little deeper to figure out how to fix
> that sometime *soon*.

You will probably need to add special-casing for the affected
platforms to the command_commit() function of parted_server.c in
partman-base. Upon creation of a partition table, partman/libparted
by default clobbers the area after the partition table and
thereby overwrites parts of u-boot on some systems. You can see
how this is handled for sunxi-based systems at

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/partman-base.git/tree/parted_server.c#n1362

HTH,
Karsten
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