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Re: making debs for u-boot kernels



On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote:

> 	Hi.
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of tools,
> > and information on how to use them to build an installable
> > kernel.deb for a rpi-3b.  I know it can be done, I have witnessed
> > apt do it several times, on at least two of the arm platforms, once
> > on an arm64 running stretch and several times on armhf for releases
> > from jessie to buster.
>
> Raspberry Pi does not use u-boot. Raspbian does not use u-boot. Their
> proprietary bootloader can be forced to run u-boot, but its not worth
> it - by using u-boot you're limiting yourself to armhf, and Raspberry
> Pi3 is an aarch64 board.
>
> > I want to take a linux-rt tar.xz direct from kernel.org, and its
> > patches to  bring it up to realtime, build it and install it all on
> > the pi-3b, to which I have added a 120GB SSD for workspace, and a
> > 10GB swap so it can now build linuxcnc.
>
> Consider installing a proper Debian first the way it's outlined at
> [1]. Booting a custom kernel will be as easy as adding an another
> entry to grub.cfg.
>
> Reco
>
> [1]
> https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.h
>tml

Now its stuck, claiming the partitioing has not been done and it cannot 
install grub to a hard disk.
Going back to to the partitioning menu I see:
#1 primary  314.6MB B K ESP
#6 logical  1 GB f swap swap
#5 logical  58 GB f ext4 /

This was letting the installer do the default partitioning.

So I launched a shell, but there is not a /boot partition showing for an 
ls.

The initial /boot partition of 300MiB was created with gparted because 
fdisk might be too old, this is a stretch install.

Do I now do the steps outlined under linux on page 6 of this printout, 
with the card mounted at /media/sdf on this machine?

I think I will as so far I'm only out about 3 hours time and a 64GB u-sd.

Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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