Bug#834974: Installation Report: Stretch Alpha 7 on Cubox-i4pro
For what it’s worth, I just tried booting with an HDMI monitor connected to see if the silence on the serial-port was just a matter of console messages being directed to the HDMI video port instead. Still no go. Silence all-round.
Rick
> On Aug 22, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
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> I can confirm this problem. I just got thru running a “stretch” install on my test Cuboxi4Pro with ingredients from:
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>> wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz
>> wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz
>> wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images
>
> To be absolutely clear which components:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 871 Jun 29 15:56 README.concatenateable_images
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 187261 Jun 29 15:56 firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 rbthomas rbthomas 24210806 Jun 29 15:56 partition.img.gz
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> I got the same results as Rainer. System would not boot after installation. There was nothing at all on serial-port the console.
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> I also tried power-cycling the device. Nothing on the serial-port console.
>
> Can somebody tell me how to find out if there is a bootable u-boot on the SD card? Maybe the u-boot is getting clobbered by something in the installation process?
>
> Let me know if you want log files, etc...
>
> Rick
>
>> On Aug 21, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> wrote:
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>> * Rainer Dorsch <ml@bokomoko.de> [2016-08-21 10:41]:
>>> 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
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>> Can you 1) attach /var/log/installer/syslog from the SD card and b)
>> show the boot log (after the installer).
>>
>> --
>> Martin Michlmayr
>> http://www.cyrius.com/
>>
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