Bug#795231: fails on cubietruck with FAT /boot
Control: tags -1 wontfix
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 23:43 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: flash-kernel
> Version: 3.36
> Severity: normal
>
> A few places in flash-kernel try to ln -s, and this fails if /boot is
> a FAT filesystem. It should be possible to fall back to cp in this case.
I general /boot on FAT is not supported, not just flash-kernel will
have potential problems but also dpkg itself (hard links & atomic ops),
kernel hooks, initramfs hooks etc.
The cubietruck u-boot is more than capable of booting from an ext
filesystem, so you should just do that, in fact everything should work
in this mode out of the box, how did you end up with a FAT /boot?
On platforms where u-boot is only capable of reading FAT the
recommended approach is to use a dedicated FAT partition which is not
normally mounted and use flash-kernel's Boot-Device option to cause the
boot images to be copied to it.
Ian.
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