Re: Gigabyte MP30-AR1

["Phil Endecott" <phil_uzssv_endecott@chezphil.org>]

The Ubuntu mini.iso installer from here:

  http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/yakkety/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/

also works, with a 4.4.0 kernel:

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.4.0-9136-generic 
(buildd@bos01-arm64-004) (gcc version 5.4.1 20160803 (Ubuntu/Linaro 
5.4.1-1ubuntu2) ) #55-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 26 05:58:05 UTC 2016 (Ubuntu 
4.4.0-9136.55-generic 4.4.16)
[    0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [500f0001]
[    0.000000] earlycon: Early serial console at MMIO32 0x1c020000 
(options '')
[    0.000000] bootconsole [uart0] enabled
[    0.000000] efi: Getting EFI parameters from FDT:
[    0.000000] EFI v2.40 by American Megatrends
[    0.000000] efi:  ACPI 2.0=0x807ff43000  ESRT=0x807e161e18  SMBIOS 3.0=0x807e161c18

ACPI is disabled:

[    0.083487] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.

It must be using the device tree and surviving whatever bugs it has.

If this seems to work I may keep this kernel and try to convert the base
filesystem from Ubuntu to Debian; that should be easy, right??!

Maybe one of you experts can guess how the Debian and Ubuntu installers
and/or kernels differ that cause the Debian ones to fail for me, despite
being newer.  I was wondering if GRUB might have some influence.


Cheers,  Phil.