Re: Install on Orange Pi Plus eMMC work but no reboot

[Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jean-christian.derivaz@innodelec.ch>]

Le 07. 10. 16 à 00:39, Karsten Merker a écrit :
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:13:45PM +0200, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
>
> > Right. For my curiosity I tested the netboot SD card image of
> > the Debian installer and tried to tell it to partition, format
> > and install Debian into the very same SD card the installer
> > booted from.  To my great surprise this worked flawlessly (just
> > need a power cycle as the reboot simply hang).  This work only
> > with the netboot image.  The hd-media require an other
> > partition with the ISO file making the partition/format fail
> > because the SD card device is busy.  I don't know at this stage
> > if the boot stage is a residual of the image creation on the SD
> > card or if it was wrote by the installer.
> The debian-installer doesn't install u-boot, but it takes
> explicit care not to destroy an existing u-boot installation
> during the partitioning step.

Yes. It take so much care that it don't write u-boot when it must write 
it...
If the installer is able to take care of the region where u-boot is, why 
don't allow him to optionally copy that region from the SD card to the 
eMMC ?

> Regarding the hd-media image: installing to the SD card from
> which the installer is started works if the CD/DVD iso is
> provided on another storage device such as on a USB stick.

What's the point to support a such complicated install setup if at the 
end there is no u-boot to start the system ?

Regards,
Jean-Christian