Re: armhf Installer Image
Hi Karsten,
many thanks for your detailed explanations. I added a few comments and
questions.
On Tuesday 11 November 2014 08:10:14 Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:52:54PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > I am wondering if there is a debian installer image for armhf for cubox-
> > i/armhf.
> >
> > If yes, any documentation on how the installer process works (e.g. boots
> > from USB, installs on micro sd card, etc. or boots from micro SD and also
> > installs on micro SD etc.) would be helpful for me.
>
> Hello,
>
> I do not have any Cubox hardware, so I can only provide some
> generic advice. At least the Cubox-i2eX and the Cubox-i4Pro
> should be supported by the Debian armmp kernel (cf.
> http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.armhf/ch02s01.html).
I have both and can confirm this. Also the Hummingboard i2eX is works. I did a
bootstrap (w/o the debian installer).
> Booting a netboot installer image by TFTP is described at
> http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.armhf/ch05s01.html.
Does this imply that I need to install a micro SD card with the u-boot SPL?
> Daily-built netboot images are available at
> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/ and
> the device-tree files for the supported systems are at
> http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/device-tree/.
>
> We have recently added support for hd-media images, i.e. booting
> the installer from a USB stick, to d-i, but this works "out of
> the box" only on systems that have a very recent u-boot version
> (v2014.10) with support for the new common u-boot bootcmd
> handling framework.
Again, here we are talking about the SPL not the IPL, right? In this case you
the u-boot version from sid would do for the Cubox-i you mention.
> Most vendor-supplied u-boot versions are
> probably still based on older releases. Booting the installer
> from a USB stick on armhf is not yet documented in the
> installation guide (that is still on my todo list), but some
> information is available in the Debian wiki at
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_a_USB_s
> tick
> If the system's u-boot is older, but has support for loading the
> kernel/initrd/dtb from a USB mass storage device, booting the
> hd-media installer from a USB stick should still be possible, but
> you would have to do it "by hand" instead of using the autoboot
> framework provided by newer u-boot versions.
>
> If you have further questions, feel free to ask.
Many thanks again,
Rainer
>
> Regards,
> Karsten
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Rainer Dorsch
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