Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2015-05-16 21:37]:
> So the best solution now is to append the device tree blob (DTB) to
> the kernel in the installer.  This way, the kernel will find the
> correct device tree and can boot (and everything else will work since
> flash-kernel already appends the DTB on the SheevaPlug).

Here's a test image.

Take the kernel from http://www.cyrius.com/tmp/sheevaplug/uImage
Take the ramdisk from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/uInitrd
Boot it as described here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/

Does this boot?

This is how I prepare the image:

wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/device-tree/kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb
wget http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/sheevaplug/uImage
# Remove the u-boot header
dd if=uImage of=kernel.without bs=1 skip=64
rm -f uImage
# Append device tree
cat kirkwood-sheevaplug.dtb >> kernel.without
# Create new uImage
sudo apt-get install u-boot-tools
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n "Debian kernel" -d kernel.without uImage

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/