Re: First W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition in bullseye Installation of cubox-i

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

On 2021-12-28, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> just for curiosity, on a new bullseye installation of a cubox-i, there is a  
> W95 FAT32 (LBA) partition created as first partition. It contains a boot setup:
>
> root@bc-text:~# mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/
> root@bc-text:~# ls -l /mnt/
> total 27026
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1575 Dec 13 16:23 boot.scr
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    75264 Dec 13 16:23 dtbs
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22636034 Dec 13 16:23 initrd.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4960768 Dec 13 16:23 vmlinuz
> root@bc-text:~#
>
> I am just wondering, why that is there. Is it an installation process leftover 
> or a kind or a rescue kernel? If rescue kernel is there a bootcmd available?

This looks like a partition of the debian-installer image you presumably
used to install the system.

You could use it to start debian-installer if you manually load the
boot.scr from there.


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