Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro

[Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de>]

Package: installation-reports

Boot method: sdcard with cubox-i
Image version: http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz

http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz

Date: So 21. Aug 00:50:19 CEST 2016

Machine: SolidRun Cubox-i4pro 
Processor: Freescale iMX6 (ARMv7)
Memory: 4 GB
Partitions: Single partition

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn):

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O] - SD card
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [E]
Overall install:        [E]

Comments/Problems:

The boot loader installation did not show an error, but the device did not 
boot. 

The last "words" of the installer:

  lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqu Finishing the installation tqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
  x                                                                         x
  x                                   95%                                   x
  x                                                                         x
The system is going down NOW!ystem...                                       x
Sent SIGKILL to all processes                                               x
Requesting system rebootqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
                        [ 2730.956106] reboot: Restarting system
 

Restarting manually through a hard poweroff/poweron did not help either.

Also I realized that the installer asked for brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin for 
the wifi module, but when supplying it on a USB stick formatted as ext4, the 
installer did not find it.


I checked, the Jessie installer works on the same hardware flawless. Upgrading 
fom Jessie to Stretch worked flawless. In stretch I have the u-boot-tools


rd@kodi:~$ apt-cache policy u-boot-tools
u-boot-tools:
  Installed: 2016.03+dfsg1-6
  Candidate: 2016.03+dfsg1-6
  Version table:
 *** 2016.03+dfsg1-6 0
        500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
rd@kodi:~$ 

Kind regards
Rainer

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Rainer Dorsch
http://bokomoko.de/