Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

[Michael Howard <mike@dewberryfields.co.uk>]

On 09/09/2016 18:29, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear Experts,
>
> I've splashed out and bought myself a Gigabyte MP30-AR1.  This is
> a "server" board with an Applied Micro X-Gene processor.
>
> There are various reports of people installing distributions including
> Debian on the previous MP30-AR0.  The difference between the -AR0 and
> the -AR1 is that mine ships with UEFI, while the earlier board shipped
> with U-Boot.  I think that apart from that the boards are identical.
>
> So far my attempts at installing Debian have not been successful.
> I have, however, managed to install CentOS!  So there is hope.  In
> each case I've put an ISO image onto a flash drive; UEFI has detected
> this and presented it in its boot menu.  Then GRUB runs successfully,
> but it seems to fail to start the installer's kernel; with the current
> strech/sid installer mini.iso 
> (http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso) 
> I get:
>
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> ConvertPages: Incompatible memory types
> EFI stub: EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL unavailable, no randomness supplied
> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
> EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
> OSBootEvent = Success
> L3c Cache: 8MB
You have checked the vga output haven't you? This board uses vga port 
primarily (by default) in my experience.

Mike.

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Mike Howard
Lancashire
England