On 2020-10-27, Alan Corey wrote: > Concatenateable images seem like a good idea but it looks like there > are none for any hardware I have (Pinebook Pro, Odroid N2, Rock64, > Raspberry Pi 3B). For arm64, there's at least support for Pinebook Pro and Rock64 and numerous other systems: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/20201027-02:17/netboot/SD-card-images/ I or others have tested that they boot at some point during the development process, though it has been a while since I tested any. The Odroid N2 and RaspberryPI systems requires non-free components, so it can't have out-of-the-box support in debian-installer. But it shouldn't *too* be hard to add the parts for RaspberryPI: zcat firmware.none.img.gz partition.img.gz > complete_image.img dd if=complete_image.img of=/dev/SOMEDEVICE mount /dev/SOMEDEVICEp1 /mnt cp /path/to/rpi/firmware /mnt cp /usr/lib/u-boot/rpiVARIANT/u-boot.bin /mnt/ ... Or configure config.txt or whatever to load the components directly. For the Odroid N2, you need to create the complete_image.img and then install the bootloader onto it using odroid's bootloader scripts. https://github.com/hardkernel/u-boot/ I've done this for Odroid C2, which is likely a similar process, although I'm able to use those scripts with the u-boot and arm-trusted-firmware shipped with debian for the Odroid C2. It looks like u-boot 2020.10 has an odroid-n2 target and arm-trusted-firmware 2.3 has an amlogic/g12a target, so it would likely be possible to enable those in the Debian packages if someone were able to test them semi-regularly. > Having a serial console might let you see more of what's going on. > How to do that varies with the machine. Indeed, having access to a serial console is pretty crucial to work on most arm boards. The CuBox-i series make that easy as there is a microUSB port that exposes a serial interface built-in. live well, vagrant > On 10/26/20, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote: >> On 2020-10-26, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >>> I wanted to do a test on the mainline support of bullseye for the >>> Cubox-i. >>> >>> I downloaded the bullseye installer from >>> >>> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media/SD-card-images/ >>> >>> put it on an SD card >> ... >>> But all I saw was a quick u-boot message then the screen stayed dark >>> (screen >>> reported "no HDMI signal"). >>> >>> Strange is that I see the same issue with the lastest install images of >>> buster >>> :-/ >>> >>> The Fedora32 installer boots and the installer comes up. >>> >>> Any ideas what is going wrong? Hmm.....just wondering now, is it required >>> to >>> install Debian via ttyUSBx or should the text based installer work on >>> HDMI? >> >> It may need new modules added for the framebuffer video output; at one >> point many years ago I had gotten a wandboard quad (also imx6, like the >> cubox-i) to boot debian-installer on the video console, but then support >> was enabled for video acceleration in the kernel and I never tracked >> down which kernel modules were needed to enable in the installer to get >> the framebuffer video back again... >> >> It's no fun playing kernel module .udeb whack-a-mole :/ >> >> >> live well, >> vagrant
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