Bug#864562: Installation on Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 07:39:12PM +0200, Jean-Louis MOUNIER wrote:
> I'm the new owner of my second Olimex A20-Olinuxino Micro (Rev J) board.
>
> I tested the board with a pre-installed Micro-SD card
> (A20-OLinuXino-MICRO Debian Jessie with kernel 3.4.103+ release 14) and
> it runs fine .
>
> My challenge is to install Debian on this board and, better if possible,
> to run it from the attached hard disk (without Micro SD card).
>
> I choosed to run the installer from a micro-sd card image, made with
> zcat (with Jessie and Stretch releases, same result).
>
> The installer boots fine even if I saw that it is not as complete as a
> X86/X64 Debian installer. Not a problem.
>
> I use a serial port to manage the installation.
>
> As it is a network installation, first I plugged the system on my
> domestic network then directly on my ISP Box.
>
> After investigation with my son (who is also qualified on the subject),
> I think that the problem is about the network interface of the board.
> Maybe a faulty initialisation or bad handshake with the network port.
> both NI led blink and the switch port too.
>
> Here are the facts : the installer can neither configure itself from
> DHCP neither communicate with Internet when the network configuration is
> manualy entered. I did explore the logs from my DHCP server and I didn't
> find any log about the DHCP request from the installer (I saw some when
> testing with the pre-installed card).
>
> Did you meet this issue before ?
Hello,
could you perhaps provide the output of dmesg and the syslog? The
easiest way will probably be enabling logging to a file in your
serial terminal, switching to a shell inside the installer
(CTRL-A 2) and running the following commands:
dmesg
cat /var/log/syslog
Your description sounds like a problem with the ethernet
autonegotiation. Are you using a gigabit ethernet switch? If
yes, could you try a 100MBit switch instead? There was a
hardware bug in a specific revision of a Realtek Ethernet PHY
that was used on some Olinuxino models, which only showed up on
gigabit links and not on all switches. Uboot contains a
workaround for that bug, so that shouldn't be a problem anymore,
but testing a 100MBit switch might be useful nonetheless.
Due to the problems with that specific Realtek PHY, Olimex has
AFAIK changed some of the Olinuxino models to PHY chips from
another manufacturer. If your board is one of those, we might
perhaps have a driver problem.
Without the logs it is unfortunately nearly impossible to debug
this further.
Regards,
Karsten
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