Re: Debian on a Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d...
Try ctrl-alt-F(1-4 or so) for virtual terminals.
On booting, you'll probably need some uboot. Which looks quite
complicated, see https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot
On 2/3/21, Marco Gaiarin <gaio@lilliput.linux.it> wrote:
>
> Someone gift me a NAS as subject, some year ago, and i was curious about
> installing debian in...
>
> I've just installed debian on m68k, ppc, sparc, spar64, alpha and now...
> Arm.
>
>
> I've done some search and speaked with some friends here in local linux
> user
> group, leading to some info about u-boot and arm architecture.
> I've:
>
> a) found the serial pin and connected a serial cable/adapter
>
> b) understood that in ARM there's no 'automatic hardware inventory', and
> the
> exact hardware inventory have to be provided via a DTB file.
>
> c) found the DTB of this box here:
> https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096
>
>
> so, i've downloaded the 'raw' linux kernel and built a uImage from here:
>
> http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/
> with:
> cat vmlinuz-4.19.0-13-marvell kirkwood-iomega_ix4_200d.dtb > uKernel
> mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n
> "Debian kernel" -d uKernel uImage
>
> and downloaded the initrd from here:
>
> http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/guruplug/
>
> then i've setup a tftp server and booted from tftp.
>
>
> system booted correctly, and i was able to install debian. Cool!
>
>
> Some question:
>
> a) (not specific ARM, indeed, but...) in installation, done clearly via
> serial terminal, on the top there's some 'window' coices, eg:
>
> 1: installer 2: terminal 3: log 4: ...
>
> how can i access other term? I've looked in installation manual, but i was
> not able to found the key combination to switch 'window'/VT
>
> b) at the end of the installation, the system warn me that there's no 'boot
> loader support' (or something like that), and the resulting system was not
> bootable. This was expected, but i hoped that the installer have the option
> to chroot on the new installed system to be able to to some manual
> bootloader setup, or at least to scp out the initrd.
>
> I've missed something?
>
>
> Anyway, thanks!
>
> --
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