Re: cubox-i does not boot after upgrade to bullseye
On 2021-12-29, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On 12/28/21 13:46, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>> Am Dienstag, 28. Dezember 2021, 11:47:37 CET schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
>>> I can recommend barebox here instead of U-Boot. i.MX is the probably
>>> best supported platform for it and I would expect the cubox-i to be
>>> directly supported.
>>>
>>> Barebox can mount various filesystems and if there is a bootspec entry
>>> in your rootfs (e.g. flash-kernel can write such an entry) you can just do:
>>>
>>> boot /mnt/mmc0.0
>>>
>>> to let barebox pick the kernel, initrd and dtb from the filesystem on
>>> mmc0.0 and pass root=UUID=$therightone.
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. Is barebox already packaged for Debian and I just don't
>> find it or do I need to install it from non-Debian sources?
I briefly tried barebox and must say I liked it; if it's supported by a
platform you use I can definitely recommend trying barebox! The shell
felt more like a bourne shell (e.g. bash) than u-boot and maybe a bit
more comfortable for someone not already familiar with u-boot...
> It's not yet packaged, there is only an ITP, which waits for some effort
> to convert barebox to SPDX. https://bugs.debian.org/900958
That looks to be *mostly* done, from a quick glance.
Looking forward to seeing it in Debian!
live well,
vagrant
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