W dniu 15.08.2023 o 20:57, peter green pisze:
On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote:
What did I do wrong?The unfortunate reality is that boot on arm is *still* a mess. The server guys and the windows laptop guys have settled on uefi (thoughthe implementations are often far from perfect), but the hobbyist board segment is still all over the place, with each board (or family of closely related boards) still needing it's own build of u-boot
It is not "U-Boot versus UEFI" problem.The problem is SBC vendors who go with "Shitty Bargain Crap" explanation of acronym instead of "Small Board Computer" one.
When you have SBC without any on-board storage for boot firmware (nevermind is it U-Boot, UEFI, Barebox or whatever) then you need to provide (usually) microsd with firmware stored at some magical places.
One of solutions then is to make microsd card with firmware, put it into a slot and forget that microsd slot exists. Then you can plug USB stick with Debian installer (just "dd if=debian.iso of=/dev/usbstick") and boot.
This is how raspberry/pi 1/2/3 and several other SBC work.