Bug#782574: installation-reports: d-i does not boot on beaglebone black

[Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 03:51:45PM +0200, François-Régis wrote:
> Le 14/04/2015 14:05, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 13:24 +0200, Francois-Regis Vuillemin wrote:
> >> Package: installation-reports
> >> Severity: important
> >> Tags: d-i
> >>
> >> Here is the console log :
> > [...]
> >> Running bootscript from mmc ...
> >> ## Executing script at 82000000
> >> Non-mainline u-boot or old-style mainline u-boot detected.
> >> This boot script uses the unified bootcmd handling of mainline
> >> u-boot >=v2014.10, which is not available on your system.
> >> Please boot the installer manually.
> > [...]
> > 
> > It seems that this script isn't expected to work with the version of
> > u-boot that's installed on your BBB.  (Which is a shame, but maybe
> > unavoidable.)  That message could probably be improved, though.
> 
> I could have misunderstood but I thought beaglebone black was loading
> uboot from sd-card (or emmc), and the log shows
> 
> U-Boot 2014.10+dfsg1-5 (Apr 07 2015 - 22:13:27)
> 
> which seems to be the one provided with d-i ...

Yes, that is the u-boot version in Jessie. It seems like the
upstream BBB u-boot maintainer has not made the move towards
using the unified boot environment (config_distro_bootcmd.h)
which was introduced with u-boot 2014.10 and which is used by
many other platforms, so the BeagleBoneBlack still uses the old
platform-specific default environment in u-boot 2014.10. The
boot script used by the installer depends on the new unified boot
environment, which is why you get the error message quoted above.

Vagrant, could you perhaps take a look at the issue?

Regards,
Karsten
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