Re: banana pro | bananian does boot, debian armhf-netinst not.

[toogley <toogley@mailbox.org>]

Hey,

sorry. i complete overlooked that i need of course a sd card image.

Thanks.

On 12/30/2015 09:13 PM, Karsten Merker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:22:43PM +0100, toogley wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > # The versions used:
> > bananian version: 15.08 (released 2015-08-22)
> > debian version: 8.2.0 armhf-netinst (2015-09-06 16:24)
> >
> > Accoding to http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armhf/ch02s01.html.en the
> > armhf architecture is the correct one.
> >
> >
> > command for both: sudo dd bs=4M if=[path]/[imagename] of=/dev/sde && sync
> >
> > => bananian works, debian not. It simplay doesn't show any reaction
> > => What is my mistake?
>
> Hello,
>
> from the version string "8.2.0 armhf-netinst (2015-09-06 16:24)"
> I assume that you have tried to write a netinst CD ISO to an SD
> card.  The CD images are not bootable on armhf; you have to use a
> proper SD-card image for your target system as described in the
> installation guide at
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/armhf/ch05s01.html.en#boot-installer-sd-image
>
> The SD-card equivalent of the netinst CD is available from
> http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/
>
> In your case the follwing commands should provide you with a
> working netinstall SD-card image:
>
> $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.BananaPro.img.gz
> $ wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz
> $ zcat firmware.BananaPro.img.gz partition.img.gz > netinstall.img
>
> The resulting "netinstall.img" can then be written to an SD card.
>
> HTH,
> Karsten
>
> P.S.:
> Just as a sidenode: the Jessie installer requires a serial console
> cable, there is no HDMI output.