Bug#793157: marked as done (flash-kernel: syslinux-style boot configuration on recent u-boot versions)
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regarding flash-kernel: syslinux-style boot configuration on recent u-boot versions
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Package: flash-kernel
Severity: normal
syslinux-style /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf superseed boot.scr in recent u-boot
versions and seems to be the way forward for u-boot configuration, but I
couldn't find anything to automatically generate them in Debian.
Long story short, I manually installed Debian Jessie (as well as
linux-image-4.0.0-2-armmp and u-boot from u-boot-sunxi=2015.04+dfsg1-2) on an
A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 from Olimex but couldn't get it to boot (even with the
boot.scr created by flash-kernel when invoked in a chroot with
“FK_MACHINE="Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2" flash-kernel”) until I created the
simple /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file attached.
I'm not sure whether flash-kernel is the correct package to implement this
feature, but there should be a way to automaticaly generate such files.
menu title LIME2 boot menu
timeout 10
ontimeout linux
LABEL linux
KERNEL /boot/vmlinuz-4.0.0-2-armmp
INITRD /boot/initrd.img-4.0.0-2-armmp
fdt /boot/dtb-4.0.0-2-armmp
append root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootwait
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On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 09:58 +0200, Thibaut Girka wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 08:44:44AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > […]
> > It's hard to say without logs but I suspect you are missing the
> > contents of /etc/default/flash-kernel which according to your
> working
> > extlinux.conf in your case should should contain:
> >
> > LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE="root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootwait"
>
> It indeed cointained only “LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE="quiet"”.
>
> > This would normally be setup by d-i. You can either edit that file
> > directly or "dpkg-reconfigure -plow flash-kernel" in the chroot.
> >
> > You might also be able to add console=tty there to override the
> default
> > serial console.
>
> Done, and it now boots fine using the boot.scr, thanks!
Super, closing the bug.
If anyone feels minded to work on extlinux.conf integration I think
that should be a separate wishlist issue against another package,
ideally with patches attached ;-)...
Ian.
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