Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug
On May 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <rodrivg@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug.
>
> I solved it temporarily by doing the following:
>
> - In u-boot:
>
> setenv machid 00000692
> saveenv
>
> - Then install normally. The 'make the system bootable' phase will fail because flash-kernel fails:
> ---- /var/log/installer/syslog:
> May 16 13:47:28 in-target: Setting up u-boot-tools (2014.10+dfsg1-5) ...^M
> 4-kirkwood
> May 16 13:47:46 in-target: Unsupported platform.
> May 16 13:47:46 flash-kernel-installer: error: flash-kernel failed
> May 16 13:47:46 main-menu[170]: WARNING **: Configuring 'flash-kernel-installer' failed with error code 1
> May 16 13:47:46 main-menu[170]: WARNING **: Menu item 'flash-kernel-installer' failed.
> ----
>
> - Then select 'execute a shell' and write:
>
> cd /target/boot/
> /target/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -n uImage -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -d vmlinuz uImage
> /target/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -n uInitrd -d initrd.img uInitrd
>
> - It may be neccesary to change 0x00008000 to 0x00800000 in both cases, but in my case it worked the way above.
> - Then 'exit' the shell and select 'continue without boot loader'.
> - I think that this last phase of mkimage should be repeated on every kernel upgrade because I think flash-kernel (which calls mkimage) will fail again.
Thanks for the analysis, Rodrigo!
Could you submit a bug report against uboot-mkimage so the rest of us users of sheevaplug devices can get a working system without having to work-around this bug? I think it’s just a matter of having mkimage recognize the sheevaplug’s machid as valid, but I’m not an expert.
Hopefully!
Rick
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